Trader Intelligence Profile
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12 October 2026 · Trading Practice
The Move You Missed Is Not a Trade You Lost
Two sessions show the same useful distinction: wanting a move is not the same as taking it, and the entry available now is not the entry that was missed.
6 October 2026 · Trading Practice
Inside a Winning Trade: What the Decisions Reveal
A winning trade tells you the outcome. A recording lets you revisit what you said, expected and chose while that outcome was still uncertain.
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. Discipline is one explanation, and often not the most useful one. The rule may not fit how you trade under load.
14 July 2026 · The Failure Modes
Why Do I Revenge Trade?
Anger and discipline are the usual explanations, and they may not be the whole story. One likely mechanism is how fast you decide and how hard you commit once you have. Your own trades can confirm it or rule it out.
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 struggles to hold three moving parts in his head during a fast session. That looks less like one ability at two levels than like two different abilities.
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 usually the same: grab the gain, hold the loser, wait for a bounce that may never come. And the fix has to match your profile, not someone else's.
10 April 2026 · Trader Cognition
What Type of Trader Are You?
A useful profile gives you a question to investigate. Your next job is to find out whether the pattern appears in your decisions.
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