Trader Intelligence Profile
Field Notes
15 July 2026 · The Failure Modes
Why Can't I Follow My Trading Plan?
You wrote it. You agreed with it. You broke it anyway, and then you wrote it again slightly stricter. The problem is rarely the discipline. It is that the plan was written for an operator you are not.
14 July 2026 · The Failure Modes
Why Do I Revenge Trade?
It is not anger, and it is not a discipline failure. It is a predictable interaction between how fast you decide and how hard you commit once you have, running on machinery that was never told a red number is not a threat.
3 June 2026 · Trader Cognition
Why IQ Is the Wrong Measure for Traders
There is a trader in every prop firm who solves logic puzzles faster than anyone on the floor and cannot hold three moving parts in his head during a fast session. These are not different magnitudes of the same thing.
13 April 2026 · The Failure Modes
The Discipline Myth
It is the one-word diagnosis that sounds right every time, and that is exactly the problem. When the answer is always discipline, the analysis stops before it starts.
12 April 2026 · The Failure Modes
Why You Sell Winners Too Early and Hold Losers Too Long
It has a name, a mechanism, and a fifty-year research trail. The shape is always the same: grab the gain, hold the loser, wait for a bounce that may never come. And the fix has to match your wiring, not someone else's.
10 April 2026 · Trader Cognition
What Type of Trader Are You?
Two traders run the same system on the same instrument for a month. One is up four percent, the other down six. They will both say discipline. The honest answer is that they are running identical strategies on non-identical brains.
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