My Trading Psychology

[Moxiee]

Markets move fast, but emotions move faster. Fear and greed push traders into rushed decisions,buying tops, selling bottoms, or overleveraging positions.

Ethereum, stablecoins, or Bitcoin,it doesn’t matter. Without emotional control, the outcome is the same. A calm mind is as important as any chart.Do you think your biggest challenge in trading is technical skill or managing your own psychology?

[Charles-Tim]

This kind of thread belongs to trading discussion and not altcoins discussion.

The most dangerous thing in trading is using huge levegege. It can easily affect your trading and cause frequent loss of money.
The second are altcoins that are too volatile. Best to just avoid them.

Patience is very important in trading and do not expect to become rich in just short period of time. You are very correct.

[batang_bitcoin]

Do you think your biggest challenge in trading is technical skill or managing your own psychology?

Someone who can be good in technical in trading and yet, can lose patience and control to their own emotions. Me, I can control my emotion and timing is the hard part of what I can assess for myself. Technicals are sometimes not being followed by the market but with open trades, it's important to follow the set stop loss, and sell orders. It's about being disciplined and experienced know that, it's not about how many wins you make but how much you're able to keep when you take them.

[Japinat]

It should be both. Stop assuming that just because you have a calm mind and controlled emotions, you can always  succeed in trading. Trading requires a strong trading mindset, consistent learning, discipline and good risk management in order to successfully navigate those trading challenges, so if you focus alone on having a calm mind, it won’t be enough to be successful in trading.

Trading is quite complex, but if you are smart and wise enough to manage your trades, you will definitely gain more positive trades than losing trades.

[I_Anime]

Markets move fast, but emotions move faster. Fear and greed push traders into rushed decisions,buying tops, selling bottoms, or overleveraging positions.

Ethereum, stablecoins, or Bitcoin,it doesn’t matter. Without emotional control, the outcome is the same. A calm mind is as important as any chart.Do you think your biggest challenge in trading is technical skill or managing your own psychology?

Is easy said than done , but still op you are right our emotions also play a major role in our trading career,  but controlling it not easy at all because we are emotional being . One thing about trading is having the right information or knowledge and same time following the right principles .

Like avoiding over trading , apply proper risk management, done before delusional always set reasonable take profit because that financial freedom you are trying to build won't be from just one trade so is a gradual process and every losses you make , is like a tuition fee so stop overthinking those losses because it will surely worth when you eventually figure it out .

[rachael9385]

Markets move fast, but emotions move faster. Fear and greed push traders into rushed decisions,buying tops, selling bottoms, or overleveraging positions.

Ethereum, stablecoins, or Bitcoin,it doesn’t matter. Without emotional control, the outcome is the same. A calm mind is as important as any chart.Do you think your biggest challenge in trading is technical skill or managing your own psychology?

Skills is what matters the most, although it's good to be emotionally mature or stable as a trader but that is not the overall factor. As a human do you think it's possible to be totally emotionless? It's not possible to achieve, yu can only control yourself from being pushed by your emotions into making wrong decisions. What matters the most in trading is your experience and how you are able to take advantage of the changes in that market

[CageMabok]

Markets move fast, but emotions move faster. Fear and greed push traders into rushed decisions,buying tops, selling bottoms, or overleveraging positions.

Ethereum, stablecoins, or Bitcoin,it doesn’t matter. Without emotional control, the outcome is the same. A calm mind is as important as any chart.Do you think your biggest challenge in trading is technical skill or managing your own psychology?

Both are equally important, although managing emotions comes first among several other important factors. It's not uncommon for some people to lose simply because they make rash moves and decisions without careful consideration in trading, ultimately resulting in losses. Technical skills, along with knowledge of both old and new coins, are crucial to avoid being trapped in junk coins whose popularity declines over time. So, everything that can be applied to trading is equally important, although the order of importance can vary greatly.

[Peanutswar]

We’ve been into trading with the knowledge, and skills but in reality wise where into the emotions once you experience already the trading and with the full market volatility because of unexpected things happen for sure theres a panic and stress you will do, so now the emotions are right there to give more pressure into you about your decision but once you are already well prepared and mentally stable with current situation you will not get lost.

[EarnOnVictor]

Markets move fast, but emotions move faster. Fear and greed push traders into rushed decisions,buying tops, selling bottoms, or overleveraging positions.

Ethereum, stablecoins, or Bitcoin,it doesn’t matter. Without emotional control, the outcome is the same. A calm mind is as important as any chart.Do you think your biggest challenge in trading is technical skill or managing your own psychology?

Your points are valid—nothing more to say to traders other than inwardly checking themselves. Just as I explained here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5540496.0, you would know that you spoke my mind. Although I added management to mine, that doesn't stop the fact that our trading psychology must be put in check and be balanced before we can be successful in trading.

Again, I've narrowed down my trading assets to Gold, Bitcoin and Ethereum, despite trading over 40 assets before. The reason is simple, just as you mentioned, it is not about the asset but our preparedness. If we trade the best and simplest assets in the world, if either of our trading strategy, management or psychology is lacking, we will still end up in losses.

[albon]

Managing psychology, emotions, and controlling greed is no less important than the technical skills that help us understand market trends. Psychology is the most important factor to consider while trading.. Impulsive and reckless decisions,, fear of missing out, anxiety, and stress are what make traders unbalanced in their choices, causing them to lose money even if they are skilled in technical, fundamental, and analytical aspects.

Therefore, any trader who wants to adapt to this volatile market must have a disciplined psychology,, a calm mind, and stable emotions, as these determine whether they end up in profit or loss... Whoever succeeds in controlling themselves will succeed in the market, no matter how volatile it is.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

Managing psychology, emotions, and controlling greed is no less important than the technical skills that help us understand market trends. Psychology is the most important factor to consider while trading.. Impulsive and reckless decisions,, fear of missing out, anxiety, and stress are what make traders unbalanced in their choices, causing them to lose money even if they are skilled in technical, fundamental, and analytical aspects.

Therefore, any trader who wants to adapt to this volatile market must have a disciplined psychology,, a calm mind, and stable emotions, as these determine whether they end up in profit or loss... Whoever succeeds in controlling themselves will succeed in the market, no matter how volatile it is.

It is most important and even are more important than knowledge on technical, fundamental analysis. You can do good analysis by yourself or received it from an expert, but if you can not control your emotion, psychology, you will make bad action in this volatile market and will lose money.

Learning and knowing about psychology of market cycle is helpful but it won't be enough to succeed as you need a lot of practice for mastering it.
Wall street cheat sheet: The psychology of market cycles.
The psychological pitfalls of a market cycle.

[moneystery]

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Without emotional control, the outcome is the same. A calm mind is as important as any chart.

It's true that a calm mind helps one trade better. With a calm mind, they can navigate various uncertain market situations and rationally determine their positions without being caught up in momentary emotions. Emotional control is crucial for traders, as without it, they can easily make rash decisions that can potentially lead to significant losses. Therefore, for a trader, maintaining their peace of mind is important, just like learning technical or fundamental analysis, it is something that cannot be ignored.

[Wind_FURY]

Markets move fast, but emotions move faster. Fear and greed push traders into rushed decisions,buying tops, selling bottoms, or overleveraging positions.

Ethereum, stablecoins, or Bitcoin,it doesn’t matter. Without emotional control, the outcome is the same. A calm mind is as important as any chart. Do you think your biggest challenge in trading is technical skill or managing your own psychology?

Both EQUALLY challenging in my own personal opinion. Although there's a very good solution that has worked for me that everyone should try. Set up an offline computer that will never connect to the internet, generate your keys, and send your Bitcoin there. That's your vault to HODL your Bitcoin.

In moments of panic, the extra steps that will actually be needed to sell your coins will stop you from making "rushed decisions".

[TheUltraElite]

Managing the nerves is half the job done. Even in buy low sell high which is the most basic thing, not having a control over the nerves lead to losses. This can be learnt and with practice honed, sometimes it is inherent from young age but some can never learn it

Hence trading is not for everyone but for the ones with a calm mind.

Otherwise the buying at top and selling at low is what will happen and bigger fish will not miss the opportunity to scallop it down.

[Mame89]

Markets move fast, but emotions move faster. Fear and greed push traders into rushed decisions,buying tops, selling bottoms, or overleveraging positions.

Ethereum, stablecoins, or Bitcoin,it doesn’t matter. Without emotional control, the outcome is the same. A calm mind is as important as any chart.Do you think your biggest challenge in trading is technical skill or managing your own psychology?

In my opinion, both are major challenges in trading. Psychologically, it's about managing emotions (fear and greed). Likewise skills include analysis, discipline, and overconfidence, as well as technical incompetence in making sound decisions during volatile markets, managing risk effectively, and using a consistent strategy. These are all significant challenges, and both must go hand in hand to achieve success in trading.

I say challenges because these two seem easy to do and can be learned quickly, but in practice, they are very difficult because they involve emotions and mental balance. Furthermore the market is very complex and multi layered, making it difficult to solve them as easily as most people believe. Therefore to be successful in trading you must overcome these challenges so you can minimize losses.

[aoluain]

Markets move fast, but emotions move faster. Fear and greed push traders into rushed decisions,buying tops, selling bottoms, or overleveraging positions.

I think this is more relevant to new or inexperienced traders where they lack technical
knowledge and cannot manage their emotions.

Ethereum, stablecoins, or Bitcoin,it doesn’t matter. Without emotional control, the outcome is the same. A calm mind is as important as any chart.Do you think your biggest challenge in trading is technical skill or managing your own psychology?

Technical skill and knowledge is more important than psychology. I think if you have
a good skill base you will be making the right decisions. Without it you can
make the wrong moves regardless of a good psychological approach.
You have to be able to navigate the charts because the Bitcoin market is so volatile
and as you say they move fast.

[salad daging]

Both are major challenges for trading because you have to be able to manage both without skills, you won't be able to determine prices or take positions, but technical skills are very much needed in trading.

Psychology is important you have to be able to control your emotions, greed, and make the right decisions, because if you just follow your desires, you may fall into fatal mistakes.

Psychology in trading is important; if you cannot overcome it, you may become stressed when experiencing losses.

[tvplus006]

...Do you think your biggest challenge in trading is technical skill or managing your own psychology?

Trading psychology alone will not be enough for profitable trading. For profitable trading, you will need skills in technical and fundamental analysis, trading strategy, discipline and compliance with risk management.

[Franctoshi]

Markets move fast, but emotions move faster. Fear and greed push traders into rushed decisions, buying tops, selling bottoms, or overleveraging positions.

Ethereum, stablecoins, or Bitcoin,it doesn’t matter. Without emotional control, the outcome is the same. A calm mind is as important as any chart. Do you think your biggest challenge in trading is technical skill or managing your own psychology?

Management of Psychology is indeed one major problem that most traders can face sometimes while trading, because trader who properly manages or controls his emotions and is a deciplined trader outweighs a particular trader with just a Technical skills, because 60%-90 of trading success hugely relies on Psychology.
Many got the technical skill but don't know how to manage Psychology.

[DaNNy001]

It should be both. Stop assuming that just because you have a calm mind and controlled emotions, you can always  succeed in trading. Trading requires a strong trading mindset, consistent learning, discipline and good risk management in order to successfully navigate those trading challenges, so if you focus alone on having a calm mind, it won’t be enough to be successful in trading.

Trading is quite complex, but if you are smart and wise enough to manage your trades, you will definitely gain more positive trades than losing trades.

You are right, having a calm kind doesn't necessarily mean that you would instantly become a master trader but it's good to develop your emotions and mindset because these things come in handy...like you said, if you are smart as a trader it's possible for you to make more profits than losses, although this all depends on your level of patience and how good you are with the application of risk management