If you your trade how many days does it take you to recover back?

[Adbitco]

Let say you are trading with $1k  and you open a long position and the market slipped a bit away from you and you lose around $400, due to emotions you wouldn't want to get liquidated because you don't really know when it should be at your favor.

This question seems to belong to the gambling discussion. Letting your emotions go through it seems like a lot. It's definitely a lot because losing 40% of your capital hurts. I think the best approach to this is to learn how to properly protect yourself through risk management.

I want to know, if you lose you how long does it take you to restore back what you have?
Do you keep fighting it immediately to restore it back or it will take you weeks depending on the market setup?
Share your thoughts as this could help those who find themselves in such conditions.

For me, it doesn't matter if I lose a lot. As long as I am consistent with my trading conditions, it should work itself out. If it doesn't, better reassess your strategy.

Actually same terms that is applied to gambling is what also attached to trading, where people often say that traders should used what they can afford to lose to trade than using a higher amount to trade because of the risk associated with it. Same thing is applicable to gambling where it's mostly instructed or advise to use money they can afford to lose to gamble. I have understood that majority of people usually want to engage in a revenge trading when they lose some percentage of their capital you would see them pushing harder to restore what they have lose while trading. I have seen that to be a very wrong approach while trading because a clear setup is enough to enter the market to restore what they have lose, it must not be immediate or could takes days thereabouts.

[Odusko]

I have experienced a situation like that, the remaining money was used to make 1 or 2 more trading positions. But it seems the desire to recover funds quickly made me perhaps rush in making entry positions. Maybe not losing all the capital, but it's difficult to recover everything. 
Now, if I decide to close a trade at a loss or a profit, I will stop first and not open trading positions at that time. The break time is uncertain, sometimes it can be short, sometimes it can also be quite long.

Very well said, your desire to recover your lost money from trading will put you on an intense position and pressure to make new openings and collecting back your lot money from the exchange, but doing that always en you in a bad outcome in most cases like this, trader's should learn to accept their loses and move on, because only then they can actually make go ue of the lesson they have learn during their losing times.

[savetheFORUM]

Traders can't predict when they'll recover previous losses, as that depends on market conditions.
Even if traders analyze when to open a position, it's still no guarantee of profit, as traders also analyzed losses in previous positions.
Therefore, it's difficult to predict, even compared to trying to recover losses, accepting them, and adjusting trading strategies to reduce the risk of further losses.

When he said the words 'fighting immediately', it is seems that he knows that an immediate trade may still not mean an instant recovery but what he mean there when he say fighting immediately, is purely the action or the frequency. Although there is also already a word 'immediately' there.

Traders analyse when to open a position , can sound like they are not rushing there. Add in when you also said or include that traders also analysed their losses in their previous position. But this seems better than if they attempt to avenge their losses immediately, no matter how skilled or confident they are. Nothing beats a relax mind though. We can think better and perform much better if we have taken adequate breaks before we do our things.

People think trading is a fast game but they don't know that patience also matters a lot here in order to perform well. So, it is not the short-term or the early result that matters but it is the over all result.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

We know that in trading, no matter how careful you are, you must definitely hit losses every week or biweekly depending on your trading pattern and also depending on the type of trader you are, so I know this is possible but to prevent myself from this kind of huge lose if I'm using a large amount like that, what I normally do is reduce my leverage size so that volatility like that will not cause such huge lose in one day, but if I lose such amount, I'm done for that day, I won't chase after it but I will take time and start scaling up again, I don't care if it takes up to a month before I recover it but I will be more careful.

[Joy- maker]

I want to know, if you lose you how long does it take you to restore back what you have?
Do you keep fighting it immediately to restore it back or it will take you weeks depending on the market setup?
Share your thoughts as this could help those who find themselves in such conditions.

First of all, I can't open a trade with $1k because I can't afford to lose it all at once in a single trade.  Let's say I budget to trade with $1k within the week, I would divide the $1k across the seven days that make up the week.  After that, I would divide the amount  allocated for each day into the amount I can afford to risk per trade.

Now to answer your question OP,  if i lose $400 from the $1k I budgeted for trading in a week I would not be in a hurry to get it back because chasing after your losses can make you lose even more funds to trading.  However, I might also not even try to recover it back, since it is an amount of money I can afford to lose to trading.  Personally, I don't see any reason to chase after money you can you willingly let go or can afford to lose.

[batang_bitcoin]

We know that in trading, no matter how careful you are, you must definitely hit losses every week or biweekly depending on your trading pattern and also depending on the type of trader you are, so I know this is possible but to prevent myself from this kind of huge lose if I'm using a large amount like that, what I normally do is reduce my leverage size so that volatility like that will not cause such huge lose in one day, but if I lose such amount, I'm done for that day, I won't chase after it but I will take time and start scaling up again, I don't care if it takes up to a month before I recover it but I will be more careful.

Just think of it that every time you trade, you're going to take a loss. That's a normal thing when we trade and the recovery period will take some time. It's not that we'll able to recover that asap when we lose because we have no control over the market but we have control over our decisions and the trades that we create. The possibility of recovery is there but we cannot have the guarantee that when we aim to recover and we make those trades, we'll recover. That's not as easy as our minds think about it because of how all of a sudden changes are coming.

[masulum]

I want to know, if you lose you how long does it take you to restore back what you have?
Do you keep fighting it immediately to restore it back or it will take you weeks depending on the market setup?
Share your thoughts as this could help those who find themselves in such conditions.

About how long the time to recover, it is vary and can take weeks or months, because I will not force myself to directly make transaction again in the same day. Forcing to get the fund back as fast as possible actually make us ignore common sense and it can lead us to make the loss even bigger, so it is much better to calm the mind first, evaluate the mistake, and patiently wait for really good market moment before start trying again slowly.