Researchers have found that humans have a six-hour window of opportunity when fearful memories can potentially be erased, a study says.

Reliving a harrowing memory opens what experts call a “reconsolidation window” – a time-limited period when it can be changed from bad to good.

This is probably why 95% of traders lose – because mistakes or traps in trading are easy to come by, but erasing those bad memories is not easy after the six-hour window. This also suggests that you would need to go over the same trade within six-hours and somehow neutralize the bad memories (tequila or vicodin?).