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Please, stay calm

If you tend to react like the trader in this video, you should seriously think about your tradingstyle. Trading shouldn’t be so stressful that you react like this when someone disturbs you.

When It All Goes Horribly Wrong


Trading without emotions

We all know - or should know - that it affects us negatively when we make a trading decision while we’re in a highly emotional state. And we are told that we should “trade without emotions”.
But does that mean we should become emotionless computers?  That we should only decide because of calculations?

Not exactly

It rather means that we try not to get overwhelmed by our feelings, especially while trading or making important decisions. Such distracting feelings can be for example: