Symptoms:
Trading with “scared” money
- Trading from a state of desperation and fear
- Ruled by emotions and unable to take a loss
- Changing her trading plan often
- Trying to be perfect
- Looking for medication to deal with emotional issues over trading
- Adopting a trading technique (scalping one futures contract) that is beyond her level of trading competence
- Attached to the outcome of each trade
- Not committed to the process of learning to trade—using trading as a temporary “stop-gap” source of income until something else becomes available.
Acting out personal dramas in the financial markets