Ep. 19 Why You Keep Blowing Up. Even When You Know Better

The Simple Trading Podcast

This episode is about the mental trap that’s been quietly sabotaging my trading for years, loss aversion. I break down how my own brain was wired to overreact to losses, how that fear distorted every trading decision I made, and why experience alone didn’t save me. I explain the neuroscience behind it, how stress shuts off rational control and turns trading into a survival response.

I walk through the exact ways loss aversion destroyed my results: hesitating on good setups, cutting winners too soon, revenge trading to “fix” losses, and slowly eroding my self-trust. Then I map out how I started breaking the loop, journaling emotional triggers, reframing risk around probability, setting hard limits, and using small controlled losses to retrain my reactions.

This episode isn’t about motivation. It’s about reprogramming how I think and feel under pressure, so my execution finally matches my knowledge. It’s the blueprint for taking back control from fear.

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