#TradingTypes101 📉 About how incorrect risk distribution turns victory into defeat!
You can be right in 8 trades out of 10. You can catch the trend, enter exactly in the liquidity zone, take out the tails with surgical precision, BUT if you don't know how to distribute risk properly — all of this doesn't matter.
You will press "buy" for the 11th time —
and in 2-3 trades you will give back all your profit, and sometimes — even go into the negative.
🔍 Why does this happen?
Because after a series of victories, that very internal trap kicks in: "Now I can afford to take a little more risk. I'm in the plus." This is about self-satisfaction, about the internal feeling that you control the market — although this is not the case.
At this moment, a person begins to unconsciously raise the stakes, even if the numbers on the screen haven't changed. The risk per trade may remain the same — but the psychological cost of a mistake becomes higher.
🧠 The nature of this mistake is in the person themselves
We are not evolutionarily designed for probabilistic systems.
We are closer to: either it worked, or it didn't. And the market is a place where you can be right but still lose, and you can be wrong but still win — if you know how to manage risk.
💡 What to do technically:
Fixed risk per trade.
1–2% of the deposit — no more.
Even after a series of wins. Especially — after a series of wins.
Plan for the week = limits on loss and profit.
You know where your "stop of the week" is.
And you know how to break even if something goes wrong.
Keeping a trading journal.
You record not only the entry and exit, but also what you felt.
Where they wanted to increase risk. Where they didn't set a stop. Where they wanted to "recoup."
🧭 How to relate to risk psychologically:
Risk is like brakes in a car:
By managing risk correctly, you buy yourself time.
You buy yourself another attempt.
You do not turn trading into a "all or nothing" bet.
Many lose not because they don't know where the price will go.
And because after a series of wins, discipline begins to be neglected.
They believe that "everything will definitely be fine now."
And at this moment, the market does exactly what it should:
checks your maturity.
