Unit 4 · Level 1 · Know thyself
Tilt signals
Poker players call it tilt: playing worse BECAUSE you're losing. It announces itself before it costs you: sizes creep up, clicks get faster, the checklist gets skipped, one loss demands immediate revenge, and suddenly you're checking prices at 3 a.m. Your tilt has a signature. Learning it is much cheaper than funding it.
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What you get asked
Match the tilt light to what it signals
Each light alone is a warning; two or more together is a diagnosis. The demons from Unit 1 rarely knock. They show up as these behaviours.
Your plan risks 1% of a €5,000 account per trade, which is €50. On tilt you size up to 5%. How many € are now at risk in one trade?
5% of €5,000 is €250, five planned trades' worth of risk in one angry click. Tilt doesn't feel like risk; it feels like urgency.
You notice two tilt lights blinking mid-session. The professional move?
'One trade to get even' is tilt's favourite sentence. A tilted brain shouldn't negotiate with itself. It should log off.
Playing worse specifically BECAUSE you're losing is called ___.
Poker gave finance its most useful word. Losses are normal; letting losses degrade your next decision is the actual leak.
The best tilt defence is decided when?
A circuit breaker written by calm-you fires automatically when hot-you needs it most. It's the Trading course's plan rule, applied to your own nervous system. 🐜
The rest of this unit
Tilt lights, risk personality, and an honest audit: meet the trader in the mirror.