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I thought I was being strategic, but really, I was afraid to miss, to lose, to be wrong. Every chart was a battlefield between logic and panic. Once I named it, I could manage it.

Now, fear still visits, but it no longer decides. I follow rules, not reactions. Fear loses power when it’s noticed, not ignored.

Awareness is the first trade of every session. Do you trade your plan or your fear?

Fear is a part of the psychological factors traders need to master and defeat in trading; it totally affects a trader's ability to make proper decisions in trading. Some traders feel like by ignoring it they're able to control it, but to control it you need to acknowledge it in your decision-making and analyze each decision you're about to make in trading to ensure that you're not making it from a position of fear. Some other emotions that make up a part of the trading psychology alongside fear are greed and overconfidence.

A clear and solid trading plan that you stick to can help manage the emotion of fear.

You will keep trading your fear until you come to the stage where you master your trading plan and market movement won't scare you again. Fear is the greatest challenge that a trader has to overcome and to overcome that, you need a strategy that gives you such confidence. You will also need lower risk to be able to fit into that strategy because if you become too confident and increase your risk, you won't be in the market to grow your account with whatever good strategy. The market is very volatile and you need a balanced emotion to trade on it, otherwise one candlestick can deceive you to take a wrong trade.

It is not easy as a trader to be able to overcome fear no matter how you’re prepared for the market. The market still gives you a reason to fear it and always have to be the one to decide how you’ll play by it. Once you overcome fear, it doesn’t mean you won’t face losses again, it only means that you’ll begin to be more confidence in your analysis and won’t hesitate to trade your plan, which makes you not to miss out on the opportunities the market has for you.

There is a thin line between fear and confidence, as thin as it is, it is very hard to overcome but when you do, you’re now close to your success journey in trading. After this, you then have to still play by your rule or risk management because when you fail to maintain a good risk management skill, you’ll definitely face a lot of losses in the market more than what you expect of the market. Trading is not magic, it’s knowledge and when you have it, you’ll win over the market.

As a trader you're open to having doubts and fear in most circumstances and you can really get over those silent fears but you have to create some strategies to overcome the fear which involves a good decision making process. Sometimes you can shun the silent fears and overcome it and that's why you trade with control to avoid emotions handling your trading strategies.

Fear is inevitable in trading, especially that you are trading in a market where volatility is high. But there are always ways on how to manage your fears, you just have to overcome those instead of beating your fears because in reality, fear is still part in trading. If you don't feel fear, you won't be motivated as well to overcome those and be successful in trading.

Consistent trading experience is proven to slowly overcome your fears to lose in trading. Work on it and develop your skills and strategies, and when confidence arise, fear will slowly subside.

honestly fear is something every trader kinda faces even if we do not admit it. personally i have been there too! making trades just to avoid missing out instead of following my plan that i earlier mapped out just to keep myself on check.once i started seeing fear as part of the process instead of the enemy, trading became calmer but for sure awareness is the first trade! when you can recognize your emotions you stop letting them control your moves in the market

You don't trade to combat fear and losses. But you embrace them instead while you continue to trade skillfully and strategically for a positive trading outcome. Fear is unstoppable no matter how you try to avoid it, you may reduce the amount of fear but you will never come to eradicate it. So the best approach is just to live with it instead. Trading requires a little bravery, be it mentally, emotionally or spiritually. If you find it hard to accept trading that way, hence you are a weak and irresponsible trader then.

First rule of trading I believe is having a plan and sticking to those plans at all time, regardless of your emotions. We all know that the market’s sudden reactions are only out for one thing and one thing alone, which is to mess with your emotions, make them unstable and give you an impaired mind, but sticking to your initial plans helps you navigate through that challenge and maintain complete control.

I noticed i'm getting better at trading when I set up my trade, then leave it as it planned. No monitoring the chart 24 hours a day and be needlessly anxious about it. Basically same experience as you.
I've seen my trade steadily getting better and if i hit SL then so be it, it's all my plan after all.
Having such discipline requires massive effort though, not every average joe can pull off when seeing the market going against our trade. But it's all part of how the market works.

It is normal if you feel that. Many traders have the same, not just beginners but also pro traders. But you should encourage yourself and say to yourself that you can trade better. You can manage trading like a pro so nothing to worry about.

Following the rules you know will be better because you will not be trading excessively. You will always be aware and careful in trading and analyze before trading.

We should follow our plan and stop trading when it is enough. That prevents you from trading excessively and avoids the big risks.

Fear is given in trading; you can't avoid that.

But if you have a plan and you stick always with it and are always consistent, I am for sure, the fear you will experience is minimal and you can avoid it always.
If you are well prepared in every trade you do - you will not panic or get fear.

This fear comes because we hold our money dear to ourselves. The day you understand and start rationing how much to spend on trading you will no longer have the fear. Also the confidence that is gained after reading old charts helps clear this fear. Do not live in this fear because that life is a miserable one.

Always make sure that you are not spending over your monthly budget on trading. Never take loans for trading. Simple things but they help avoid the anxiety thay happens with trading.

Fear will always be there in trading it’s part of the process you can’t erase it completely but what you can do is control it awareness at the start of every session is what makes the difference between trading your plan and trading your fear when you’re aware of your mindset you can tell if you’re acting based on emotion or strategy. A trader who sticks to a plan knows what to expect and how to react no matter what the market does the moment you let emotions drive you you stop following your setup and start gambling instead the plan is what keeps you grounded when things go sideways.

Preparation is what kills fear when you already know your entry exit and risk level before you even take a trade there’s no space left for panic everything becomes mechanical and calm fear usually comes from uncertainty but once you’ve studied your strategy and backtested it that confidence builds over time. Discipline is the real key you can’t control the market but you can control yourself every trade should come from logic not from reaction once you master that the fear fades because you’re no longer guessing you’re just executing what you already planned.

Having a plan doesn’t really mean your plan is  good, and you could have a plan , stay consistent to that plan but still end up failing or making repeated mistakes again and again. So it’s not just about having plans, it’s more about having a good plan, I’m not saying the plan has to be perfect, I’m only saying that it has to align with your individual factors, that’s how you know your plan is good, and then you can talk about being consistent with your plans.

But let's gace facts here, what's the point ofsm trading with strategies, isn't it to reduce or avoid losses, i won't necessarily call it fear but no trader wants to lose especially in the long term, so your fear isn't really a bad thing, feeling a sense of fear doesn't stop you from being strategic, remember its about emotional control, being scared of losing shouldn't stop you from taking bold steps that are necessary

I agree that fear will only come if excess money is invested. That's why it is always recommended to only invest what we can afford to loose as it will help us keep emotions away. Trading with minimum amount will not make us monitor the orders constantly.

We can spend time elsewhere after opening the trading and setting required stop loss and take profits. If the money is beyond our ability to loose, we will be under extreme pressure to close the trade in profits. If in case we end up in loss, things are going to be way complicated and that is when fear will enter.

I would avoid over trading and will only invest a decent share of my earning in trading. Rest money will go in long term holding which needs no monitoring. I would suggest OP to do the same.

I would give you an advice you to learn how to master your emotions, pay more attention to the psychological aspect of trading and learn how to apply the principles of risk management...i can say for a fact that the reason why you are afraid is because you are probably trading with amounts that you can't afford to lose and you might be breaking some little principles like, trading with an overly increased lot size

Personally its pure my opinion and you can accept or reject it, I think normally for trader get fear when trading in cryptocurrency exactly how high risk happening if wrong position between buy or sell. But avoid fear or scare in trading you must trade the freeze money and not any worry if that money get loss, if you use saving fund or getting loan for trading I think difficult how to avoid from fear and worry if want entry although have been in the right position.

Using not freeze fund in trading easily for us get panic moment and selling any coin or assets at lower price due worry about price possibility will dump, but if you freeze money you not really care yet and keep hold until price recovery back. However getting fear, scare and worry in trading is normally and I faced many moment exactly trading with any coins and price dump drastically, have to be long term holder and must find other source income back up how much loss in trading.

This is why you don't have to joke with trading due to your interest to make huge money from it even when you don't understand how it works. People had been making mistakes claiming to be traders while decieving their selves because they can run a straight line from one end of a candle to the other end.

Trading is not about reading charts or running different lines with lot of indicators but about when you can jump in the market and leave without hurting yourself. You can hurt yourself when you are looking for all possible means to make money from trading.

I hope that you're getting to understand that trading is a two-way thing; either you lose or you profit. One thing must happen: if you want to profit, you must be willing to give. That's where you kill the aspect of approaching trading with fear because you have to understand that it all about give and take. With the help of stop-loss and take-profit points, you already know how much you wish to give to the market, so there's no need to be fearful of what the outcome will be.

Trading involved the money even probably big money and being fear especially fear to losing all of your money is normal i think this behaviour is pretty good because with being fear you will be extremely caution to every decision which you will made but in trading world we will faced the situations between loss and profit and sometimes we should be ruled out our fear and being courage to make the decision so, this is the fight between your fear and the risk which i am sure this is will be very hard but once again i have to says trading world is fully of risk and do not too fear to loss because this is the part of the experience but if you cannot control your fear seems trading is not belong to you

I always trade with my plan, not with my fear, because I do not see the point in trading with fear. Trading with fear will never make me a better trader, and I may never get the opportunity to become a successful one.Most traders trade with fear because they lack proper knowledge. When a trader has good knowledge, it’s rare for them to be afraid of making decisions. It’s not that I claim to be a great trader, but I always have confidence in the decisions I take. If I am wrong, I learn from my mistakes and make corrections.However, anyone trading with fear may hardly make reason profits. If someone is trading with fear, what is the point of building their strategies in the first place?

You can hardly have any profits if you trade your fear. In trading, you should always keep your emotions away which will clear your mind and will make you focus completely on the trades. If you let your fear intervene in trading that all you will do is keep on monitoring charts, keep panic selling or buying in FOMO.

You should never let your emotions take part in the trade. This has been taught since decades now and people failing to do so are still in learning phase where they learn by making mistakes. If you want to succeed in trading, you will need to be patient and know how to control your mind. Maybe sitting down and meditating for a couple of minutes before you start trading might help to overcome your fear.

We all have been there. Some of us never left it. Imagine the chaos that happened during covid19, lots of people were forced to leave their positions. The same thing happened during the mortgage crisis and before in 2001 with dotcom crisis. (A few smaller crashes happened between those big events) In the end markets have always recovered. Hell we recovered from the great depression, fucking world war. Whatever will be happening in the future won’t be worse than these. If it happens, then we won’t be around to see what happened so it doesn’t make sense to worry about it. Don’t let fear consume you. If you are in the markets, you have to be optimistic.

I only have fear when i am in losses like 3 in a row or more, at that point i will have no trust for my self an fear becomes by greatest battle at that moment and not the market
But when i am on a wining streak i am usually filled with courage but some times i consider it too much courage, that makes me care less about risk management, because i believe it will go to my direction because of past wins,
But all these feeling are enemies of progress and the goal is to get them eliminated, they all boil down to psychology, the best way i feel to overcome such , is to calm down observe what is right and what is wrong it does not matter what side your emotions picks, what matters is what is right, you can consider writing the 2 options on a note book and and mark the right one and go for it regardless of what your emotions says, on a long run you will get used to making right decisions.

Admit it or not, we all have fears when trading. The fear to lose, the fear to make wrong decisions, and the fear to stay in losses while others are already on top of their profits. But the real question is, does fear contributes to our trading success? No, it will never be relevant in trading, but it will only mess up with the future profit opportunities we have in trading.

Fear is normal, but it shouldn't be the basis on how to navigate our trades, or else we don't trade here for future gains but only for losses.

Nobody likes to lose and that is where fear comes in as a new trader, you will fear naturally because you don't quite understand the terrain but as time goes by and you increase your knowledge the fear will gradually subside. When you become a pro in trading and there is no trace of fear again that is when you no need to watch out for overconfidence, trading with amount that you are not comfortable to loose is not a good strategy. There is nothing wrong with having very little fear as a good trader it will keep you from irrational decisions where you will throw caution in the wind and ignore the risks in trading.

Fear is normal. Every traders is also experiencing this and it takes time to have a confidence, even though we already acquired that still being nervous is inevitable. The market is unpredictable and every trading parameter we used still not guaranteed as success or profits. I remember that when market stumble badly, many people are easily get scared and fear of losing the value of what they hold then they panic sell. The next morning it got back like there's nothing happened.

I think this is very common when we trade, anxiety always haunts you whenever you trade because trading involves your real money, and losses can sometimes trigger emotional stress in us. When we are trading, if we feel excessive anxiety, we should stop for a moment to get rid of that feeling. and there is nothing wrong with using this free time to review or evaluate our previous trading, what was wrong and what was right. or you can continue the next day and also don't force yourself to continue because trading with an uneasy mind often ends badly.

I only have a small amount of capital to trade with, so the fear of loss often causes my trading strategy to fail.

I frequently exit trades due to fear of loss, and then regret it when I see the coin rebound and realize I acted hastily.

Fear and greed are the two strongest emotions that manipulate traders and cause their strategies to fail. If a trader cannot control these two fundamental emotions, they will never succeed.

Fear might seem normal but overcoming fear is definitely not normal. It takes years of practice and patience before we can control fear. Fear is nothing but a start of bad decisions. Fear will make us take decisions which can ruin our portfolio and make even make us mentally unstable. Fear is never good for trading so we should try and keep fear away at least until we are trading because eventually it will affect our trade positions.

It also does not mean that we can take n number of traders just because we do not fear the markets. Mental stability is very important here and one can only have profits if he has a stable mind.

This is perfectly one of the reasons why many traders says that 70% of a trader success rate depends heavily on his ability to actually control his emotions while only the remaining 30% actually is about the knowledge they possess.

I honestly agree with that statement because trading is definitely base on ones emotions and if one can’t control it no amount of good technical analysis or fundamentals can actually make them get that successful in trading. I usually advise traders to prioritize the use of Stop loss and take profit.
 
Your take profit should be where you want to take profit and it’s base on your analysis same with stop loss but the amount to loss at the stop loss should be an amount you can afford to loss. Once this is set you simply don’t panic and close trades early for the fear of losses.

Fear and emotions are something natural, you can never eliminate any of them from your trading plans, but you can control them because if you failed to control your emotions, you will never have a growing trade with little profit or losses that you will not cash out due to emotions; no one will want to see their portfolio turning red, they will manage the profit of the little losses just to avoid losing the whole capital.

You as a trader, needs to coach yourself emotionally; and you need to depend on your analysis and the knowledge you have in making some decisions in trading, you don’t panic easily because you can lose money due to panic sell and see the market will just go the right direction when you can’t be able to change anything.

We should not really completely eradicate fear. We should have some fear in mind. Fear of losing is something which will make us way careful with our positions and we will not really go for over-trading.

Without fear, individual might open multiple positions without actually thinking about the end results so I would say fear should be there but we should not get carried away completely. When it comes to open positions, we can try controlling our fear and take mature decisions but when it comes to opening a trade, we can have some fear in mind which will make us think closely about the stop loss and also the trade position so we do not end up opening a larger position.

If you are a newbie in trading, trading may always come with fear, and its normal really. But along with your experience growth, your knowledge and skills will also developed gradually until you find yourself slowly trading without fear but more on confidence and adopt positive attitudes towards trading.

However, overconfidence isn't good anymore in trading. You are not trading and expect constant profits, but you do trade to overcome some fear but at the same way, still expect some inevitable losses from trading.