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Tharp discovered that
trader's psychology make up of
mind has more to do with his success than anything else does.
However, what exactly is
psychology of
mind?
In short,
psychology of
mind refers to your thinking and emotional actions and responses to any given situation...In trading, fear, greed, vanity, pride, hope, jealousy, denial - all these can affect investment decisions. Although, your aim in
market is to maximize your profit and minimize your risk, thinking and emotions often make this easier said than done.
FOR EXAMPLE - Traders, who cannot control
psychological process of thought and emotion, make
wrong decision - such as
common amateur mistake of holding a losing position in
belief that someday it will become a winner.
Loss aversion is a classic mistake. By nature, humans value a loss. Therefore, you suffer almost twice as much pain losing $1 as you would in gaining $1. Loss aversion compels most traders to hold a losing stock while it plummets downward. This clouded judgment clearly contradicts
trading adage: cut your losses and let your profits run.
Emotional investors hold losing positions because they view paper losses differently from realized losses. An investor also engages in other forms of irrational behavior.
EXAMPLES are attributing success as natural and losses to bad luck.
This is just
tip of
iceberg. When talking about
other devastating effects of trading, if you do not have
psychology of your thought and emotions in
proper prospective
consequences can be devastating.
This is what opens up problems for new traders, and then they lose manage money very quickly in
markets. Most people completely wiped out their finances within
first year of trading. So, as you can see, your thinking and emotions play a big part in determining whether you fail or succeed, but did you know that thought and emotion make up two different spheres pertaining to trading success?
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