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Discipline & Psychology

21 articles · 3 checkpoints · 12 deeper reads · 6 reference notes

Every article, in reading order

plant a flag as you finish each

Read these first

  1. A good decision can lose money and a bad decision can make money, judging trades only by whether they worked teaches you the wrong lessons.

  2. Writing down the thesis, size, and stop before a trade, not after, is the only reliable way to find out later whether your reasoning was actually good.

  3. The trade that undoes a month usually isn't the first loss, it's the oversized, unplanned trade taken right after it, trying to get the money back immediately.

Then the rest

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