Trading with Fear and Anxiety

via SMB Capital – Day Trading Blog:

It’s important to understand the difference between fear and anxiety when we’re trading.

Legitimate fear is our friend. Legitimate fear serves a warning to tell us something’s wrong. It’s the signal to be alert , to review our positions and plans. If we find something wrong, we can fix it. If not we let go of it and move on.

Anxiety on the other hand is our enemy. Anxiety occurs when we imagine bad things happening for no valid reason. Like when we consistently focus on a trade going bad even when there is no legitimate reason to do so.

The biggest problem with focusing on a trade going bad is that we, as people, Read more [...]

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