About trading: a mistake that can cost you dearly
Hello PussFi friends, I hope you're all doing well. Today I want to talk about something that will surely sound familiar to those who trade or have at least tried to trade at some point. It's something that seems easy to control from the outside, but when you're looking at the charts, it's much more complicated than it appears: overtrading.
When you start out in this world, you usually spend hours watching the markets. You open the charts, check indicators, change timeframes, look for patterns, and generally, you're waiting to find an opportunity to enter a trade. The problem is that we often confuse activity with productivity, and we believe that by spending more time in front of the screen, we'll necessarily find more opportunities to make money.
But the reality is different. If we follow a strategy based on a statistical edge, the logical thing to do would be to wait only for those configurations that have a high probability of working. In other words, we shouldn't trade just for the sake of trading, but only when the market offers us exactly what we're looking for. The problem is that patience is usually one of the scarcest resources when we're starting out.
I remember when I began, it was incredibly difficult for me to stay still. I saw movements everywhere, and any small signal seemed enough to open a trade. Of course, at that moment you feel like you're taking advantage of opportunities, but over time you discover that many of those entries simply didn't meet the necessary conditions. It was more a need to participate than a rational decision based on a plan.
And here another problem arises that I consider even more dangerous: trying to get revenge on the market. I think many traders have gone through this at some point. You have a trade that goes wrong, you lose money, and instead of accepting the loss and moving on, you start feeling the need to recoup it immediately. Then you open another operation, then another, and perhaps yet another, without properly analyzing what is happening.
To be honest, it's happened to me. After a loss, it's easy to let emotions take over. You feel frustration, annoyance, and even anger. At that moment, it seems like the best idea is to get back in to recoup what you've lost, but ironically, that's when we tend to make the worst decisions. We trade impulsively, ignore our rules, and end up making things worse.
Over time, I've come to understand that the market doesn't know who you are, nor does it know how much money you lost, and it has no obligation to give you anything back. That need for revenge exists only in our minds. The market simply keeps moving while we fight against our emotions.
That's why I believe that trading plan rules are absolutely essential. They're what protect us when our emotions try to take control. If we don't have clear rules for entering, exiting, and managing risk, sooner or later we'll end up acting impulsively. And when that happens, staying in this business becomes very difficult.
success in trading often depends less on finding the best strategy in the world and more on having the discipline to execute it correctly time and time again, even when our emotions tell us to do the opposite.
And you, do you trade? Have you ever tried to get revenge on the market by trying to recover a loss? I'd really like to hear about your experiences, because I think it's something many of us have gone through at some point. I'll sign off now, hoping you have a great day. Best regards.
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Hola amigo, sabes? a mi me llama mucho la atención el mundo del trading, y he tenido alguna participación, pero para mí ha reseultado más una suerte de entrenamiento que una opción real de ganar, admito que tambien tiene su gran curva de aprendizaje, y que una gran parte del tiempo es necesaria para aprender a gestionar muchas cosas sobre todo las emociones y aprender a encontrar buenas estrategias y seguirlas, pero creo que el factor curva de aprendizaje no se puede saltar, y necesariamente el aprendizaje real llega en la constante practica que puede resultar a veces "costosa" y eso es lo que a veces no podemos permitirnos, por falta de recursos, o por no saber gestionar esos recursos.
A mí me encantaria tener gente con la cual poder interactuar y compartir opiniones, creo que el apoyo de otros con más experiencia es fundamental.
Gracias por compartir, bendiciones 🤗
Muchas gracias por comentar. Fíjate que particularmente empecé con cuentas reales, y terminé perdiendo.
Luego solo lo hice en demo (capital de mentira), y me fue bien. Probé con cuenta de capital real, pero pequeños montos, y me sirvió .
Pero pase de una cuenta pequeña a una ma grande, y la psicología no es la misma, así que cada proceso va a ser diferente, hasta que uno logra conseguir algo, digamos que "sólido". Pero se sigue aprendiendo siempre.
Tener a una persona que sirva de guía es crucial. El detalle es conseguir a alguien rentable de verdad, que no solo quiera venderte un curso y ya. El GRAN DETALLE.
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Regards, @adeljose