Trading as Psychology: The Paradoxes of Trader Behavior

Every fact is a mirror for the trader. People love to recognize themselves in the weaknesses of others.

📌 1. 80% of traders close profitable trades too early — and hold losing trades too long

This is the effect of emotional equilibrium disruption: the pain of loss is stronger than the joy of profit (loss aversion).

👉 Lesson: Learn to lose — in order to start earning.

📌 2. Most traders consider themselves better than average

This is the cognitive distortion known as the "better-than-average effect" — the same illusion that causes beginners to jump into futures on the second day.

👉 Lesson: Ego destroys more deposits than the market.

📌 3. Successful traders more often acknowledge their mistakes than beginners

This is the paradox of adaptive humility. Market gurus are the least loud, the least confident — and the most stable.

👉 Lesson: In trading, flexibility wins over overconfidence.

📌 4. Excessive control over the market causes anxiety and losses

This is the illusion of control: the trader thinks that the number of screens and the volume of charts = control over the outcome.

👉 Lesson: Your control is risk and discipline, not more monitors.