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Psychology and Journaling

The gap between the rules you wrote and what you actually did, and the process that closes it. Less about mindset than about building a record you cannot argue with.

ADVANCED
  • 5 lessons
  • 20 topics
  • ~1.7 hrs
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By the end of this track

You keep a journal that tells you what you actually do, and a weekly review that changes something.

What this track covers

Why you break your own rules

Named, predictable failures — which makes them possible to design around.

01

The Biases That Cost Traders Money

22 min4 topics

Loss aversion, recency and confirmation, each shown in the behaviour it produces at a chart.

  • Loss aversion and cutting winners
  • Recency and over-weighting last week
  • Confirmation and timeframe shopping
  • Designing around a bias instead of resisting it
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02

Tilt, Revenge Trading and the Reset

20 min4 topics

What a losing run does to decision quality, and the circuit breaker that has to be set beforehand.

  • What tilt looks like from the inside
  • The daily limit
  • A circuit breaker you cannot argue with
  • Coming back the next day
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Building a process

A routine, a record and a review — the three things that turn experience into improvement.

03

A Trading Routine You Can Repeat

18 min4 topics

What happens before the session, during it, and after — written down so it survives a bad week.

  • Before: the checklist
  • During: decisions already made
  • After: closing the session
  • Surviving a bad week
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04

Keeping a Journal That Is Worth Reading

20 min4 topics

The fields that make a journal answer questions later, and the ones that just make it long.

  • Start from the question
  • Reason before outcome
  • Screenshots and what to capture
  • Short enough to sustain
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05

The Weekly Review Loop

20 min4 topics

An hour a week that turns the journal into exactly one change.

  • The review agenda
  • Process error or normal loss
  • One change, one week
  • Tracking whether the change worked
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5 lessons · ~1.7 hrs