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THIS Is Why “No Emotion” Traders FAIL (Must Watch)🚨

21 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Short YouTube monologue (Kardec Trader) arguing against the notion that successful traders must be emotionless. The speaker claims that passion and intensity are forms of emotion that provide the vital energy needed to power the frontal lobe—the brain region responsible for planning, decision-making, and foresight—and that without sufficient emotional energy a trader will perform poorly.

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The optimal in trading is to be that kind of cold blooded killer who has no emotion whatsoever. And the reality is that that is not true. Because passion, intensity is an emotion. We need that kind of vital energy in order to power the frontal lobe. Right? The power, the thinking part of the brain where decisions are made, planning, you know, all that kind of foresight comes from the frontal lobe. If you don't have enough emotion to power that brain, enough energy to power that part of the brain, you suck.