Learning centreLesson 07 of 8
Intermediate
9 min readEducational

Trading psychology

Loss aversion, revenge trading and how to design rules that survive emotion.

Loss aversion

Losses feel roughly twice as strong as equivalent gains, which pushes traders to cut winners early and hold losers.

Revenge trading

The urge to make it back immediately is the most reliable way to turn a small loss into a large one.

Pre-commitment

Write the plan before the market opens. Execution then becomes a checklist.

Knowledge check

Answer to reveal the explanation

1. The best defence against emotional trading is…

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Key takeaways

  • Emotion is data, not instruction.
  • Rules must be written in advance.
  • Journals expose patterns memory hides.

Course progress

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Practise in the terminal

Zoflix is a simulated trading environment for education only. Prices and results are for demonstration and do not represent financial advice or real trading performance.