Unit 2 · Level 3 · Handling wins
The win review
Everyone reviews their losses. Pain demands answers. Almost nobody audits wins, and that's where the rot hides. A win earned by breaking your rules is the most dangerous trade you'll ever make: it pays you to repeat the mistake. The win review asks one cold question of every green trade: was this my process working, or the market bailing me out?
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What you get asked
Why is a rule-breaking trade that WINS more dangerous than one that loses?
Psychologists call it intermittent reinforcement, the same mechanism slot machines use. A punished mistake fades; a rewarded mistake becomes a habit.
Sort the evidence: does the win smell like skill or luck?
The test is repeatability: skill survives being asked 'would you do it again, exactly?' Luck needs the ending to justify the beginning.
The win review judges the ___, not the outcome: a good trade can lose and a bad trade can win.
This is the deepest habit in trading psychology: grade the decision with the information you had, not the P&L that followed. Next unit builds a whole identity on it.
Your best month ever came from three huge wins, all in one hot sector during a strong uptrend. What should the win review conclude?
One regime, one sector, one direction is a single bet paid three times. The Macro course's risk-on/risk-off lens applies to your own results too: credit the tide before crediting the swimmer.
A trade broke your entry rules and made €600. What goes in the journal?
Keep the euros, reject the lesson. The Trading course taught the journal habit; this is its hardest entry: writing 'I was wrong' on a day you got paid. 🐜
The rest of this unit
Winning is dangerous too: euphoria, house money, and the discipline of paying yourself.