A short YouTube monologue (by Kardec Trader) warning that a common toxic trait among traders is fixating on potential profits instead of focusing on the trade itself—price action, market sentiment, and objective signals—which leads to emotional interference and poor execution.
Ultimately, it never really works out. I believe one of the biggest toxic traits traders have is they become too excited about the potential profits they may possibly make. I see traders look at a trade and say, well, if this trade goes to this price point, I'll make $10,000 or I'll make $5,000. And that is the worst mindset to have, because that will immediately take you off the trade and you'll start looking at imaginary end results without even the end results happening. Right. And that gets your emotions involved, that gets you super excited about the trade. That takes your focus away from focusing on what actually matters, which is the actual trade, which is the price action, which is the market sentiment and all those things. And it just.
