@GoshawkTrades for the past year, I've been battling with what has basically evolved into a full blown gambling addiction, and the only way to stop something like that is to stop cold-turkey and block all triggers. But I just couldn't get myself to install any blockades. Not until your article
@GoshawkTrades (and it's been extremely effective and my trading has immediately improved just in this week. Overtrading and revenge trading has dropped significantly due to blocking the charts when my edge isn't present)
@PerceptivTrader one analogy that worked best at preventing me from taking trades outside my system was imagining that the charts were like Medusa whenever I looked at the charts without an alert. Anytime I caught myself, I'd literally shut my eyes and close the chart lol
@PerceptivTrader pausing wasn't enough for me. Even with a pause, I still thought that what I was about to do was acceptable since I could make potential money. I found that the solution for me was to practice feeling immediate fear about what I was about to do.
@TMackWin@jaycerifit there's a part in the inner game of tennis where some guy had trouble keeping his hands from being too high. He went to a ton of a coaches and they all said the same thing, but he couldn't change. What the author did and what worked was putting up a mirror
@Lucky_879@Topstep although it may already be too late to go on a walk to calm yourself down and you may have already taken a few sabotage trades, so the ultimate solution may actually be just to write in a journal what emotion you're feeling before each and every trade for the rest of your life
@Lucky_879@Topstep setting alarms throughout the day may help as reminders to stay aware of tilt and be ready to deploy counter measures (taking a walk) once it shows up.