Forex Trading Psychology: Levels of FEAR

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Forex Trading Psychology: Levels of FEAR

FOREX TRADING PSYCHOLOGY



People can always relate FEAR to forex trading.
The fear of losing money.
The fear of losing that trade which is too much for you to handle.
However what most people do not realise is that there are different levels of fear.
Eg.
When you can afford to lose that trade, (which you still do feel fear)
you are still able to think rationally and life goes on.
(ALTHOUGH YOU STILL DO NOT WANT TO LOSE THAT TRADE)
In the example above, fear is definitely in our emotions.
But because the level of fear is low, we are able to handle the fear and still think rationally.
HOWEVER,
Eg. your forex trading capital is $10k.
Your current open trade is now losing -$5000.
And that’s half of your capital.
Or worst to say, that’s half of your life asset. (Money you can’t afford to lose)
Forex Trading Psychology – Fear kicks in. (This time in higher dosage)
Then you start seeing your open trade grows to negative -$6000.
Your Fear level increases, you can feel your heart beat racing.
And sure enough, your worst fear arrived,
The trade increases to negative -$7000.
Forex Trading Psychology: Levels of FEAR

Your level of fear had reached its final peak level.
(you know it when you feel):
- Desperation
- Your face turn black
- You isolate yourself
- You start blaming people, things, events
- You pray
When you feel this level of highest fear.
You can’t think rationally any more.
You know that you can’t think rationally any more when:
- You have decided to increase lot size on your next trade
- OR You decided to go ALL IN on the next trade
You want to get revenge on the market.
You now feel HATE and ANGER.
Forex Trading Psychology: Levels of FEAR

And sure enough, when you start to do things irrationally.
That is the downfall of your trading career.
So you see, there are different levels of fear.
And the highest fear can lead to other emotions like ANGER & HATE.
When you start to do all the above.
You know you have reached your highest level of fear.
It is time to stop trading for a while.
Go get a rest, a shower, a walk.
When you feel that you have calm down and begin to accept things.
I want you to think of what went wrong. (not to blame others)
but what mistake did you made in the trade.
Good chance is that you are risking too much.
And i want you to WAIT and NOT trade until your feeling of hatred, anger and revenge is gone.
That is when you are able to think rationally and go back to fix the problem.
Remember, forex is a journey and not a one time success.
Most traders want to make big bucks in a few trade. But eventually lose it all.
Professional full time traders are ones who trade consistently and happy with reasonable profits.
Let me know if you had experience the above before and what you did, or what happen?

Ezekiel Chew
Asia #1 Forex Mentor

[jnik]

we must have this factor to trade in forex because we didn't want to loss in big losses, with fear factor we will start to careful to order out lot to trade in forex market.

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[challs12]

Thanks for sharing this good articles. Actually it's very difficult to avoid from having fear when our trade facing a loss. We must avoid irrational decision when seeing our trade having a big loss. We must be able to control our emotion. That's why it's always suggested to use SL in our trading to avoid massive loss.

[kashi9760]

Fear is a natural emotion effecting in trading.Every trader faces fear of losing money.You explained Forex trading psychology level of fear.We feel great fear in every trade after losing a big money in a trade.We should think that we shall recover our loss in next trade,we can save our trades from fear.

[MoneyHunter2013]

we must have this factor to trade in forex because we didn't want to loss in big losses, with fear factor we will start to careful to order out lot to trade in forex market.

I always fear when I got big loss. that's always happen when I joined first in forex market and I learn from my fail. And ow, I more be careful when I do open position to save my balance. Fear is good thing that we can implement in our trading. It can prevent us became greedy.