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Ardea Trading's avatar

Great read, I really enjoyed reading this. Not a lot of people discuss this topic often either. I particularly liked the point you stressed that this kind of thing happens to all of us, regardless of how many years spent in the market.

Ruts will always rear their ugly head at some point. It's a real test of persistence and trust in your system/strategy. When our good old friend Mr Doubt makes an appearance it's easy to get swayed and question everything.

I definitely agree with reducing position sizes and adjusting your risk. I remember doing this for the first time years back and realising how powerful, albeit feeling contradictory, it is!

Tradersr7's avatar

Good read Mate. . With recent Trump taco. On this Monday. Made me bit off gurad. I am back to to form. Again. By end of Friday. Once in a while such noises. Makes off guard

Random guy's avatar

Thank you, extremely helpful (obviously I'm in the rut now)

Amish's avatar

Size down. Strict rules. Love how you simplified this!!

Carlton Neil's avatar

"You need strict rules on size, frequency, stops, time of day, how many losing trades you allow before stepping away." would love a best practices toward this end. really enjoyed the post - very practical.

InvestmentGuyV's avatar

I almost never comment on stack but i had to with this one. Beautifully written and thank you.

Uncharted Territory's avatar

Awesome post, thanks for making it public

gun_on_substack's avatar

Excellent post!

Lord Fed's avatar

Thank you

InstitutionalFi's avatar

This write up is brilliant, thanks mate.

TheChrisWang's avatar

Awesome post

Brent @Blacklioncta's avatar

Tremendous work. Saving this one for sure. Proud to restack it with endorsement.

Lord Fed's avatar

Cheers Brent

Kieran Lim's avatar

This came at an opportune moment. Thank you Fed.

Hyperbolic Discounter's avatar

Top marks. This is very useful and insightful, and every bit well said.

Cestrian Capital Research, Inc's avatar

Superb post.

Nitin's avatar

Well said Fed.

Amar Dhaduk's avatar

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