【Emotional Heuristic Trap】Why on days when you feel good, you tend to underestimate FX risk and enter positions more lightly
On days when work goes well or the weather is nice and your mood feels light, have you ever entered a trade more casually than usual? The place for setting your stop might also feel a bit looser, and when you look back later you might wonder, “Why did I enter there?” I think many people can relate to such moments.
Risk appears larger or smaller depending on whether you like it or not
There is a term in psychology called affect heuristic. It is the idea that people tend to judge risks and rewards based on their current feelings of like or dislike. Things that feel favorable tend to appear as having small risk and large reward, while things that feel unpleasant seem the opposite.
Applied to trading, on days you feel good or feel confident about a currency pair, the same chart can look less dangerous. For example, entering even when you’re still missing one condition because “the trend seems favorable today.” It’s not the market that changed; perhaps what changed was your own gauge.
Signs that borrow judgment from mood
- Entry frequency increases on days you feel in a good mood
- When you like a currency pair, you tend to place stop losses further away
- When asked why you entered, you answer “somehow it felt good”
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This article’s summary
- When you feel good, risk tends to look small and reward looks large
- What changes may not be the market but your own yardstick
- Having a condition-based model makes you less swayed by mood
- Having a place to consult when unsure helps you keep following the model
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