Short conversational clip from a YouTube video (by Kardec Trader) exploring trading psychology: speakers reflect on how behavior changes when real money is at stake, note a gap between why trades seemed sensible in the moment versus retrospect, and pose the question of how to bridge that gap to prevent emotion-driven trades.
You start realizing the person you are in front of the screen when you have real money on the line, you have real action happening, is a completely different person than the person you are when that pressure, the money isn't involved. All those things are kind of, you know, to the sideline. You start seeing the markets from like a real point of view without the added pressure, without the emotions, without your mind playing tricks on you. And you go, wait.
Why did I take this trade? This trade makes no sense at all.
But in the moment it made so much sense to you and you're like, well, it made sense then, it didn't make sense now. So where's the gap? How do I bridge the gap? How do I make myself from this point come to this point and fill in that gap of understanding of not allowing these certain emotions that are playing a role come into my trading.
