Episode 1: FX Thinking that Breaks Through Emotional Barriers [Becoming a Person Who Does Not Succumb to Emotions ~ The Fastest Route to Becoming a “Waiting Trader” ~ The Series of 5 Episodes]
Become a person who isn’t overwhelmed by emotions
— The shortest route to a “patient trader” —
A five-article series published in five parts.
Episode 1: FX thinking to overcome the wall of emotions
— How to conquer “fear,” “desire,” and “impatience” —
■ When emotions dominate, trading collapses
In FX trading, the market is not your biggest enemy.
It’s your own emotions.
When you feel “I don’t want to take a loss,” “I want to maximize profits,” or “I want to recover soon,”
these emotions rise, you break the rules, lose your calm, and find yourself being buffeted by chart noise...
Everyone encounters this “wall of emotion.”
Whether you can surpass that wall separates “consistently winning traders” from “consistently losing traders.”
■ Why do people lose to emotions?
The human brain has a defense mechanism that tries to avoid risk.
When losses occur, the pain region in the brain responds, and calm judgment rapidly declines.
Also, when there are gains, a dopamine rush of pleasure makes you think “this can go further,”and you become ruled by “desire.”
As a result, you skip taking profits, hoping for further gains, and the trend reverses into a loss.
If you get stuck in this cycle, no strategy will win in the long run.
Because emotions break the method you use.
■ Instead of erasing emotions, view them objectively
Many traders make the mistake of trying to eliminate their emotions.
Emotions cannot be erased as long as you are human.
What matters is recognizing and observing “what emotional state you’re in right now.”
For example,
“I’m anxious and want to enter quickly.”
“I’m worried about missing profits.”
“After cutting losses, I have an impulse to recover.”
By verbalizing and framing your inner state like this, you create distance from your emotions.
Do not deny emotions; instead, meta-cognitively say, “Ah, I’m feeling this right now.”
That is the first step to a calm trade.
■ The pro traders’ “Emotional Reset Method”
One professional trader uses an “emotion checklist” before every trade.
Its contents are actually simple.
1️⃣ What is my current emotion? (Anxiety/Fear/Boredom/Overconfidence)
2️⃣ Is this emotion affecting my entry decision?
3️⃣ When emotions are strong, take a break and step away
By “scanning” your own mind before trading like this, you prevent emotional overshoot.Another trader also practices taking a deep breath for 10 seconds per trade.
At first glance it’s a modest habit, but that moment can become a switch to stay calm.
Simply adopting such an emotion-observing system reduces the urge to chase profits after cutting losses and the anxiety to lock in gains.
■ Winning traders know their own mental quirks
What you must first cultivate is the ability to observe yourself, more than the ability to read the market.
・Stay disciplined and follow the rules without being carried away by emotions
・Accept losses and recover without rushing
・Even when you win, stay calm and continue steadily
This “consistency of the mind” leads to stable trading results.
FX is not a game of reading charts, but a psychological battle of controlling emotions.
■ Next Episode Preview
Episode 2 will cover “Training to Develop a Winning Habit.”
We’ll delve into a “professional mindset” that builds winning patterns calmly without getting too reactive to results.
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