Unit 1 · Level 3 · Drawdown psychology
Revenge trading
An honest story you'll hear in every trading community: "I lost €400 before lunch. Fine, within my plan. By midnight I was down €2,600 across nine trades, and not one of them was a real setup." Ask what happened and the answer is always the same: "I wasn't trading the market anymore. I was trying to get MY money back." Revenge trading has probably destroyed more retail accounts than any crash.
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What you get asked
What is a revenge trade actually trying to buy?
League 1's loss aversion lesson showed losses hurt about twice as much as wins feel good. A revenge trade is painkiller shopping. The number is just the excuse.
Match the revenge-trading tell to what's really going on
All four tells share one root: the trade exists because of your feelings, not because of a setup. That's the definition of revenge trading.
The market doesn't know you're down €400, and it certainly doesn't ___ you anything.
"Getting it back" imagines a debt that doesn't exist. The market has no memory of your entry. Only you do.
Why do revenge traders so often re-enter the SAME asset that just stopped them out?
It's the narrative trap from League 1 turned inward: you've made the trade a story about you versus the coin. The coin never agreed to be in the story.
You're down on the day and feel the pull to "win it back". What's the professional move?
Even 'tiny tilted trades' rehearse the habit. The only winning move on tilt is not to play. The Trading course's journal will still be there tomorrow to tell you what happened. 🐜
The rest of this unit
Losing well is a skill. The spiral, revenge trading, and the art of walking away.