The Art Of Crypto explains why you revenge trade after losses: it feels personal, not like a process failure. Two rules that work: only trade when your setup matches your entry criteria, and stop after two losses in a day. Track this for 30 days to build the habit.
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Here's what nobody tells you about revenge trading. It's not a discipline problem. I know that sounds wrong because everyone, every training guru, every YouTube video, every book tells you to just, oh, control your emotions or be disciplined. And here's the thing, like you've already tried being disciplined. You've already tried controlling your emotions. And if willpower alone was really enough, you wouldn't be watching this video right now. So here's the real problem. You don't have a process because right now, here's what's happening. You take a loss, you feel like you need to make it back, and there's a gap currently between where you are and where you think you should be. And so your brain like scrambles to kind of fill that gap. So you open another trade, you lose again, that hole gets deeper and the cycle repeats. But here's what's really happening under the surface that most people don't think about. Like when you don't have a defined process for handling losses, every loss can become personal. Like it's not just, oh, the trade hit its stop loss because of its statistical probability. It feels like you failed. Like it feels like you weren't good enough. And so the revenge trade really isn't about the money. Like you think you're trying to make the money back, but what you're actually trying to do is just to reclaim like little sense of control that loss make you feel powerless, like the market is trying to do something to you or like markets against you until you force another trade. Not necessarily because it's a good setup, but because it makes you feel like you're actually doing something, like actually fighting back. But here's the paradox, right? The harder you try to, you know, grip for control, the less control you actually end up having. Because at this point you're trying to control the outcome and you cannot control outcomes. The only thing you can actually control is your process and your inputs. And so this is a shift that you change everything for me and potentially for you as well. Profitable traders don't necessarily have more discipline than you. They just have a process and a system that makes discipline completely irrelevant. Because when you have a real process, it's no decision to make after a loss. And no decision needs no emotional drain. And it means no reform bench trading. So let me show you what I mean. So in my personal trading, like after any loss, I have two non negotiable rules. A, I can only take another trade if my actual setup appears and all of my entry criterias are met. And then number Two. Like after I get two losses for the day, I'm done for the day. Like no exceptions. Because at the end of the day, profitable trading falls down to just one thing and one thing only. Did I follow my process? Yes or no? That's it. And so here's what happened for me at least. Like the first few weeks was really hard, you know, like I take the loss and my brain would, you know, scream at me to just try to get back in. But I wait. And in that empty space, something just kind of changed. Because eventually you realize that the emotional charge phase, that need to trade, disappears. When I looked at the charts again, like 90% of the time, it was no setup anyways. I was about to fall straight, that didn't exist. And after doing this for a couple of months, revenge trading was no longer something that I had to fight anymore. It just simply stopped registering in my brain. Because this time I had a process that filled the void. Now that void used to get filled with immersion, but now there's process and there's a system. And this isn't about just trait, this is generally about how you respond to adversely. Like just anywhere in your life, something goes wrong, you feel out of control, you make impulsive decisions to reclaim control and you make things worse. Like that's the pattern for most people in relationships, in business and trading. And so building a process really teaches you how to separate what you can control, which is your actions and your execution the way you think. And what you cannot control just is the outcomes, the results, and just kind of what happens next. And that separation, it's called freedom. Because you finally stop being enslaved to your emotions and your results. You start needing validation from every trade and you start building actual skill and an actual profitable process. And one other thing, like skill isn't about winning every trade, it's really just about consistent execution over time. Now here's the hard truth, right? If you revenge trades, like you don't necessarily have a trading problem, you it's more of an identity problem, right? You're kind of turning your self worth to outcomes that we just simply cannot control. It's impossible. So every loss feels like a, almost like a referendum who you are. And every win, you know, feels like proof that you're worthy. Every loss, yeah, you know, you feel like you're unworthy. And so the question is, are you a person who executes their process regardless of the results, or are you a person that scrambles for validation after every setback? It's a beautiful part. You get to choose the only thing is you can't choose both. Now here's what I would like you to do right now, right? Don't just watch this and move on. Like actually do something about this. A write down your current process after a loss. Be honest, you probably don't have one. Or it may just be vagued like oh, don't over trade or be disciplined. And then you move on to step two, which is create three specific non negotiable rules, which is what you do after any boss. Very importantly, what you do after multiple losses. What criteria has to be met before you trade again and make them very specific. It's more like wait 15 minutes, not just cool off two losses equal, done for the day, right? You want something like that, not oh, don't over trade. Then number three is you want to change your scoreboard, right? For the next 30 days, just trying to track need is did I follow my rules? Yes or no. Not P L, not win rate, not how much you made or lost, just did you execute the process? Yes or no? Because the truth is when you focus on your inputs, the output will naturally occur as a byproduct. And that means the results that you're trying to get. I can promise you this. If you do this, if you actually do this for 30 days, like actually do it, not just think about it, not just watch this video and go, you know, do all event trading will very likely stop being a battle. In fact, it'll become something that just doesn't really happen anymore because now you have a process that actually helps you instead of go against you. And your trading will just never be more consistent than your process, right? And your process will never exist until you build it. You cannot build it while you're into emotional chaos like revenge trading. So build it now, like while you're calm, before you lose your trades and it save you when you're no longer that calm. And lastly, like you know, you don't really revenge trade because you're weak. Really revenge trade because you're just winging it, right? And nobody wins winging it in this game. So build this process. Trust the process, become the process. And yeah, like if you want help actually building out this process, like not just knowing about it, but implementing it with accountability. Like that's exactly what we do in boot camp. Feel free to click the first link in the description box below. But otherwise, yeah, just start with this video, start with those three things that I told you about. And psycho. Being aware of the root cause of your problems usually helps to solve 80% of it. Most of the time, we just autopilot through life. We never really think about why it is that we do certain actions. And at the very least, now that you know that revenge trading is more of a reactive process rather than something that dictates whether or not you are good enough, this alone will go a really long way to solving this issue for you. Otherwise, see you guys in the next one. Ciao, ciao.
