Tag: trading journal
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Why Good Trades Go Bad — It’s Not the Chart, It’s Your Mood
You’ve done the analysis. Checked the technicals. News is in your favor. The trade should work — but it doesn’t. Why? Sometimes, it’s not the market or the method. It’s your mood that silently manipulates your decisions. In the Indian stock market, where volatility meets emotion daily, mastering your mood isn’t optional — it’s essential.…
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Mastering the Mirror: Why Monitoring Your Trading Progress Builds Unshakable Confidence
The Missing Skill Most Traders Ignore Learn how to monitor your trading progress effectively and build lasting confidence. A guide for beginners to assess and improve trading skills.You’ve just placed a trade. Your heart is racing. Will it go in your favour? Will it hit the stop loss? You check your charts, then Twitter, then…
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Your Brain Hides 11% Losses: Keep Accurate Trading Records or Stay Poor
SEBI data reveals why Indian traders overestimate profits. Learn to “keep accurate trading records” and escape the self-delusion trap. The ₹8 Lakh “Memory Gap” That Shattered Egos When Pune-based trader Amit boasted of 40% annual returns at his Diwali party, his broker’s year-end statement told a different story: 22%. The ₹8 lakh discrepancy wasn’t a…