By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com How you arrive at the chart matters as much as what you do once you get there. Most traders skip the arrival entirely. There is a specific kind of trading session most experienced traders recognise immediately: the session where everything goes slightly wrong…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com You didn’t come to the market neutral. You arrived carrying every belief about money that was handed to you before you were old enough to question it. Every trader has a relationship with money that predates any chart. This is the foundation of…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Most reading lists tell you what’s popular. This one tells you what’s actually true about each book — including where it falls short — because I read these as a psychologist first, not as a trader looking for validation. There are five or…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Every article about trading psychology tells you to control your emotions. This one won’t. Because that premise is wrong — and it’s costing traders more than any bad setup ever will. What is trading psychology? Not what you’ve been told.If you’ve been trading…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com The market doesn’t reward intelligence. It rewards the capacity to act clearly under pressure — and those two things have almost nothing to do with each other. Intelligent investors lose money — not through ignorance, but through the very patterns that intelligence tends…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Most traders approach emotional discipline in trading as a willpower problem. It isn’t.Emotional discipline in trading is one of the most misunderstood concepts in the field — and the standard advice around it is making traders worse, not better. Discipline isn’t the absence…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com FOMO doesn’t tell you that you want something. It tells you that you’re about to be left behind — and that feeling is far more urgent than any trade setup. Why traders chase the market is one of the most studied questions in…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Most trading journals track what you did. The ones that actually change behaviour track what you felt — and why you felt it. If you’ve ever kept a trading journal for two weeks and then quietly abandoned it, you’re not alone. Most journals…
Loss aversion trading is one of the most expensive psychological patterns a trader can carry. Here’s what it actually is, how it shows up in your decisions, and how to work with it.
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioral Finance writer | thewealthmirror.com The two forces that move markets — and two of the most underused sources of trading intelligence. Two words that explain most of what happens in markets. Fear and greed in trading are the two forces that move every market — and two…