The only version of you qualified to plan the exit is the one who hasn’t entered yet → no P&L, no ego, no sunk cost. The version holding a 30% loss is the least qualified decision-maker you will ever be. So the pros pre-commit: the level, the reason, the action, written down while calm.
Plan the exit while you’re objective. Execute it while you’re not. That’s the entire skill.
Concentration compounds. Concentration on borrowed money gets liquidated at the bottom of the exact drawdown it was supposed to sit through. Holding a 30-50% decline is a structural property before it's a character trait. No margin, no promises that can be called, cash that isn't spoken for. Only then does conviction get to behave like…
Great points here. Responsibility is not restricting our freedom rather so rewarding and meaningful. Having kids, pets, being married. Owning homes, cars, assets. “The more you own, the more they own you.” Nah – I don’t buy into that adage.
$SPX set an all-time high on Thursday. Today it’s red and the tone has already changed. Worth noticing what actually changed. Not the businesses. The reference point. The mind resets to the high-water mark almost immediately, so a normal down day near the top registers as losing money you never booked. And the narratives begin:…
Your best trading decisions happen when the market is closed. Goals, entries, exits, size. Decide all of it before you are in the trade, the same way you write the exit before you enter. The person staring at a live candle is not the person who made the plan. The moment is impulsive. It always…
“You are the obstacle” is the part nobody wants to hear. The urge to buy right now is not a character flaw, it is a feature. Your brain treats a missed gain like a real loss, and it wants the pain gone immediately. The market is built to sell you relief at the worst price….
“The most important rule of trading is to play great defense, not great offense.” Paul Tudor Jones Situational Awareness, one of the most followed AI funds in the world, was up 439%+ net through June, per its own investor letter. Now it was forced to sell the bulk of its book in one trade. The…
