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Trading Psychology and Tilt Control

Why your brain fights you, what tilt actually is, and the mechanical circuit breakers that stop one bad afternoon from erasing a good month. Research-grounded, no hype: loss aversion, revenge trading, losing-streak math, routines, and what to do after a blow-up.

Module 1: Why your brain fights you

Loss aversion, the disposition effect, overconfidence, recency, the gambler's fallacy and sunk cost, each with the research behind it and what it looks like on a trading screen.

  1. Loss aversion and prospect theory9 min
  2. The disposition effect9 min
  3. Overconfidence and overtrading9 min
  4. Recency, the gambler's fallacy and sunk cost10 min

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Module 2: Tilt

What tilt is, what your body is doing during it, the cascade that follows a loss, revenge trading, FOMO, boredom trades, and an honest self-assessment.

  1. What tilt is8 min
  2. The physiology of tilt9 min
  3. The tilt cascade and revenge trading10 min
  4. FOMO, boredom and the tilt self-assessment10 min

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Module 3: Circuit breakers

Daily loss limits, consecutive-loss stops, time-outs and platform removal: why the rules must be mechanical, pre-committed and enforced by friction rather than willpower.

  1. Why rules must be mechanical8 min
  2. The daily loss limit and the consecutive-loss stop10 min
  3. Time-outs and walking away9 min
  4. Friction design and removing the platform10 min

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Module 4: Process over outcome

Grade trades on execution, think in expectancy, understand the real probability of an eight-trade losing streak, and separate who you are from what the P&L says.

  1. Grading trades on execution, not P&L9 min
  2. Expectancy thinking9 min
  3. The math of losing streaks10 min
  4. Identity and the losing month9 min

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Module 5: Routines and state

Sleep, screen time, a pre-market prime, reset protocols with honest evidence caveats, post-session decompression, journaling emotions, weeks off, and substances.

  1. Sleep and screen time8 min
  2. The pre-market prime and reset protocols10 min
  3. Decompression and journaling emotions9 min
  4. Weeks off and substances9 min

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Module 6: Long-term sanity

Recovering from a blown account, sizing down to rebuild confidence, social media and comparison, when trading is not for you, and getting help for gambling-like behaviour.

  1. After you lose an account9 min
  2. Sizing down to rebuild confidence8 min
  3. Social media and comparison8 min
  4. When trading is not for you, and getting help10 min

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Educational content, not financial advice.