The inner game
Most traders fail not from strategy but from emotion: revenge-trading after a loss, moving stops out of hope, over-leveraging out of greed. The market is a mirror of your discipline.
Rules that save accounts:
- Accept that losses are a cost of business — a good trade can still lose.
- Never risk more to "win it back."
- Journal every trade (use the ShaFX journal) — patterns reveal your leaks.
- Follow your plan; the edge only works over many trades.