Rubab Aslam

The statistics are brutal: 90% of retail crypto traders lose money within their first year. The common excuse is lack of information or technical knowledge. The real reason is simpler and more fixable—your brain is wired to make terrible trading decisions. Here are the five cognitive biases destroying your portfolio and exactly how to fix them.
Bias #1: Loss Aversion (Holding Losers, Selling Winners)
Loss aversion makes losses feel twice as painful as equivalent gains feel good. This causes traders to hold losing positions hoping to break even while selling winning positions too early to lock in small gains. A study of 50,000 traders found they held losing trades 60% longer than winning trades.
The fix: Set automatic stop losses at 8-10% below entry. Set profit targets at 20-30% above entry. This forces you to cut losses fast and let winners run. Remove emotion from the equation by automating the decision.
Loss Aversion Impact on Returns

Bias #2: Confirmation Bias (Only Seeing What You Want)
Once you buy a coin, your brain starts filtering information to confirm you made the right choice. You ignore negative news and amplify positive signals. This keeps you in bad positions long after evidence suggests exit.
The fix: Before entering a trade, write down three specific conditions that would prove you wrong. Check these conditions daily. If two of three trigger, exit immediately regardless of how much you believe in the project.
Bias #3: Recency Bias (Last Week Determines Everything)
Your brain weighs recent events far more heavily than historical patterns. After three winning trades, you feel invincible and increase position sizes. After three losses, you freeze and miss genuine opportunities. Both responses are irrational.
The fix: Use the same position size for every trade regardless of recent performance. Track your last 20 trades in a spreadsheet. This shows your real win rate is probably 50-60%, not the 90% or 20% your recent memory suggests.
The Five Major Trading Biases

Bias #4: Anchoring (The First Number Sticks)
You bought Bitcoin at $60,000. Now it is $45,000. Your brain refuses to sell because it is anchored to that $60,000 number. You think selling at $45,000 means accepting a loss, when really market conditions have fundamentally changed and $40,000 might be the next stop.
The fix: Pretend you do not own the position. Ask yourself: If I had cash right now, would I buy this asset at this price? If the answer is no, sell immediately. Your entry price is irrelevant to current market conditions.
Bias #5: Herd Mentality (Everyone Is Buying, So Should I)
When Crypto Twitter explodes with excitement about a coin, your FOMO triggers. You buy at the top because social proof makes you feel safe. Professional traders know that when retail shows maximum excitement, it is time to exit, not enter.
The fix: Create a personal signal checklist that requires three independent confirmations before entering. Social media hype does not count as confirmation. Volume analysis, on-chain metrics, and technical indicators do count. Require all three before buying.
Win Rate With vs Without Bias Controls
The Professional Trader System
Professional traders do not have better information than you. They have better systems that remove emotional decisions. Here is what every winning trader does:
Write down entry rules before buying: What confirms this is a good trade?
Set stop loss and profit target immediately: Remove discretion later
Use same position size always: Prevents recency bias from destroying you
Track every trade in a journal: Forces honest self-assessment
Review weekly, not daily: Reduces emotional overreaction to noise
The difference between 90% losers and 10% winners is not intelligence or information. Winners have systems that prevent their brain from sabotaging their portfolio. Losers trade based on feelings that evolution designed for survival in the wilderness, not financial markets.
Systematic vs Emotional Trading Results

Your biggest competitor is not other traders. It is your own cognitive biases. The moment you accept this and build systems to compensate, you move from the 90% who lose to the 10% who win consistently. The choice is yours.
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