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Trading Without Lying to Yourself

The trading psychology podcast

What goes on in your head when you trade: fear of loss, the urge to win it back, boredom, the illusion of control. One short episode, one idea, and something concrete to try on your next trades.

Episodes in English

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Episodes

Episode 9 · Trading routine: build it in four weeks

About 11 min · in English

Sunday evening, you decide to do everything seriously. By Friday, your routine is gone. It was too heavy. A four week program, one single brick per week, then three warnings so it holds when life gets in the way.

Go further: Discipline score · Trading checklists: automating your decisions · Trading journal: the complete guide

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Episode 8 · Patience in trading: the most profitable skill

About 10 min · in English

Ten forty, nothing since the open, and you take a trade just to be in. Three wrong ideas about patience: that waiting means doing nothing, that it's a matter of willpower, and that one small extra trade costs nothing. With the math over a full month.

Go further: Exit efficiency · FOMO trading: the fear of missing out · Overtrading: why you take too many positions

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Episode 7 · Jesse Livermore: where did the hundred million go?

About 17 min · in English

One hundred million dollars: that is what legend credits Jesse Livermore with after the 1929 crash. Eleven years later, his estate was worth less than ten thousand dollars. A special, longer episode that follows his life from his office boy notebook to his last bankruptcy.

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Episode 6 · Drawdown: getting through a losing streak

About 10 min · in English

Tuesday, nine forty, your sixth stop in a row. You changed nothing, and your account is at its lowest in months. We follow the losing streak in the order you live it: the first loss, the third, the sixth, the bottom of the hole, the climb back, and what gets decided beforehand.

Go further: Max losing streak · Maximum drawdown: your most important number · Risk of ruin

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Episode 5 · Fear and greed: take back control of your trades

About 9 min · in English

You close a winning trade well before your target, telling yourself you're locking in the gain. This episode shows why that's false, how fear and greed take turns to invert your ratio, and how deciding with a cool head takes the wheel away from them.

Go further: Money left on the table · Risk/reward ratio explained · Take profit and stop loss: the complete guide

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Episode 3 · FOMO in trading: stop chasing the price

About 10 min · in English

Ten past three, your session is over, and an asset you don't follow takes off. Why your brain treats a missed opportunity as a loss, the three forms of FOMO, what a late entry costs, and how to turn urgency into a stop signal.

Go further: Emotional check-in · Risk/reward calculator · Developing patience in trading

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Episode 2 · Revenge trading: why you lose the most right after a loss

About 10 min · in English

A loss, then a bigger position taken too fast, then another. What happens in your head after a loss, why emotion dresses up as analysis, the three faces of revenge trading, and four rules to cut the reflex.

Go further: Max losing streak · Position size calculator · Daily loss limit: how to respect it

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The same podcast also exists in French in Spanish in Portuguese

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