By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com The position isn’t being defended because the chart supports it anymore. It’s being defended because admitting it was wrong feels like admitting something about the person holding it. Ego in trading psychology rarely gets discussed as arrogance, even though that’s the version most…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com This is the neuroscience of trading under stress: the brain isn’t making worse decisions by choice. It’s making different decisions, using a different system, because the part built for nuance has been temporarily deprioritised. A setup that would normally be assessed calmly —…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com You can feel the pattern before you can name it — the tightening right before you break your own rule again. The problem was never that you don’t notice. It’s that nothing has ever written it down. The search for tools to track…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer| thewealthmirror.com The trade was working. The exit wasn’t a response to the chart — it was a response to how unbearable it felt to keep holding something that could still be taken away. Exiting trades too early psychology starts with a specific anxiety that shows…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioral Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Risk tolerance isn’t a number from a questionnaire. It’s a moving line, shaped by history, nervous system state, and what risk has meant in your life long before it meant anything in the markets. Risk tolerance psychology starts with a simple observation: most…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioral Finance Writer| thewealthmirror.com The loss already happened. What happens next is being decided right now, in the space between the loss and the next trade. A big loss doesn’t end when the position closes. It continues in the hours and days after — in the hesitation before…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioral Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com The analysis wasn’t wrong. It was selective — built from the evidence that agreed with the conclusion already reached. There’s a particular feeling that arrives after taking a position: the chart starts looking different. This is confirmation bias in technical analysis at work…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioral Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com The platform isn’t neutral. Every blinking number, every red flash, every push notification is a design decision — and some of those decisions are quietly working against your nervous system. Most conversations about choosing the best trading platforms for low emotional pressure focus…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioral Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com The position isn’t being held because the analysis still supports it. It’s being held because closing it would mean admitting the money is already gone. There’s a specific kind of stillness that happens when sunk cost fallacy in trading behaviour takes hold —…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioral Finance Researcher | thewealthmirror.com Overtrading isn’t a lack of discipline. It’s a nervous system asking to be regulated the only way it knows how — by doing something. Understanding overtrading psychology starts with this: there’s a version of overtrading that looks productive. The charts are open, the…