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Module C · Risk Management·Lesson 4

Trading Psychology

Master your mindset — the most important trading tool

4 sections · 3 quiz questions · ~5 min read

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Fear & Greed

Fear makes you exit winning trades too early or avoid valid entries. Greed makes you hold losers hoping for recovery or risk too much. Recognizing these emotions in real-time is the first step to controlling them.
A worried Wick thinks close it now before it turns around in a fear-tinted cloud, showing how fear pushes traders off their plan.Close it now beforeit turns around!
Wick saysFear can make you close good trades too early or skip valid setups.

Revenge Trading

After a loss, the urge to "make it back immediately" is revenge trading. You take impulsive, oversized trades with no plan. This is how accounts blow up. After a loss, step away. Review. Come back next session.
Wick stands by a traffic light with red lit for step away, then review the trade and come back next session, teaching how to stop revenge trading.Lost? Step awayReview the tradeNext session
Wick saysAfter a loss, step away and review instead of trying to win it back right now.

FOMO & Overtrading

Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) causes you to chase trades after they've moved. If you missed the entry, let it go — there's always another setup. Overtrading (taking too many trades) usually stems from boredom or FOMO.
Wick holds a clipboard with checks for a written plan, a journal and a daily loss limit, and a red X on chasing missed moves, showing habits that build discipline.DisciplineWritten trading planJournal every tradeStop after 3 lossesChase missed moves
Wick saysDiscipline is a written plan, a journal, a daily loss limit, and letting missed moves go.

Building Discipline

Create a written trading plan and follow it mechanically. Journal every trade — win or lose. Set daily loss limits (e.g., stop after 3 losses). Treat trading as a business, not entertainment. Discipline equals survival.
Quick check

Did it stick?

Try to answer each one before you peek at the explanation.

1

What should you do immediately after taking a losing trade?

2

FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) is a valid reason to enter a trade.

3

Match the psychological trap to its definition:

Revenge Trading→Trying to recover losses impulsively
FOMO→Chasing trades you missed
Overtrading→Taking too many trades