Not every chart needs a trade. Sometimes the job is simply to identify where the risk/reward starts becoming interesting. While screening for potential shorting opportunities, I came across this setup. The idea was to combine market structure + liquidity + imbalance + trend rather than short simply because price was falling. 🔍 What caught my attention? 1️⃣ Bearish structure Price had already experienced a strong decline and was trading below a downward-sloping moving average. That suggested that the broader momentum was still favouring sellers. 2️⃣ Equal High = liquidity above The Equal High marked on the chart is an area I would watch closely. Rather than assuming resistance will hold, I look at clustered highs as a potential area of buy-side liquidity. A move toward or through that area can become important when assessing a potential reversal. 3️⃣ IFVG — potential resistance The purple Inverse Fair Value Gap (IFVG) becomes the key area I'm watching. If price retraces into this z...
👉Hope can be the most dangerous emotion for traders because it blinds them to risks and gives a false sense of confidence.
👉Investors or traders acting on hope often add to losing positions, digging themselves deeper into holes they should have climbed out of quickly.
👉Another problem with hope is that it’s closely related to pride. People don’t like admitting they’re wrong, so they refuse to acknowledge the harm they’re going do their own wealth.Risk management becomes impossible.
👉If there's one thing a trader & investor should keep in mind is that it is absolutely fine to have strong opinions on the direction of the market as long as you are not married to your opinion.
👉The idea is to set up a system that enables the trader & investor to have a exit plan before entering into a trade.
⚠️Remember that what goes down doesn’t have to come back up.
👉As the famous trader Jesse Livermore said: “A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong — not taking the loss, that is what does damage to the pocketbook and the soul.”
Fear Must Be Controlled
👉The flip side of irrational hope is fear. This emotion often causes the same traders who hold losing positions to exit at the worst time.
👉Excessive optimism morphs into senseless panic. It happens all the time.But we should control them.
👉Otherwise, we may pass up great opportunities that our system recommends.
We might refuse to pull the trigger at the right time and then find ourselves succumbing to hope by chasing after a move has taken place.
Greed Isn’t Always Good
In the classic 1987 film Wall Street, Gordon Gekko declares: “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”
👉The statement was correct because investors and corporate managers have duties to their clients and shareholders.
👉However it’s not always true for traders because, like hope, it can blind us to reality.
👉Greed can be good when we let winners run. It can also help us minimize losses, or give us an appetite for risk at the right time. But greed can hurt traders by making them hold winners too long.
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