being a good trader means being able to stick to a system in both winning and losing trades

29 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this short video, The Art Of Crypto explains a common psychological trap that traders fall into after a series of losing trades: the impulse to cut position size. He argues that halving risk after a losing streak forces the trader to win twice as many trades to recover, making the comeback harder. The speaker emphasizes that losing streaks are temporary and statistically inevitable in any trading system, just like winning streaks. Therefore, the correct response is to maintain the same trade size and process during down periods, trusting that the system’s long‑term edge will eventually even out the results.

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After losing three trades in a row, your brain often tells you, "Hey, reduce your risk." Don't listen to it because here's what happens when you go half risk after a bad run: You now need twice as many winning trades just to get back to where you were. Now, in this case, you're not protecting yourself; you're just making the recovery harder unnecessarily so. Because here's the thing: Losing streaks are always temporary, just like how winning streaks are, and every system has losing runs. It's kind of built into the statistics. So your job when you run into a losing streak is not to change your behavior or the system. Your job is to keep showing up with the same size and the same process because the numbers will always even. It's just a matter of time.