Stock traders are the world’s worse at making poor trading decisions while denying that poor decisions were made in the first place.  It is a disease called denialism and it starts when a trader abandons his rules (or worse yet has none), and trades whatever feels or looks right whenever it feels or looks right  Once the trade is entered, denialism begins to spread like a cancer looking for its next body part to attack.  The disease grows in stages, with each successive stage sucking more life out of its victim.