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revenge trade (noun)
A position taken not to make money, but to prove the market wrong about something it never said.
"He took 3 revenge trades on Tuesday and ended the week down -99R."
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In December 2018 the founder of Canada's biggest crypto exchange went on his honeymoon to India and died 24 hours after arrival.
He was the only person who had the password to $190 MILLION of customer funds.
Gerald Cotten was 30 years old.
He had founded QuadrigaCX in 2013. By 2018 it held the savings of 115,000 Canadians.
He flew to Jaipur on December 8 with his wife of 12 weeks.
He was officially in India to set up an orphanage.
He had signed his will 12 days before the trip.
He died December 9 at a private hospital in Jaipur.
Cause of death listed as complications from Crohn's disease.
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The trading paradox:
The faster you want profitability the longer it takes.
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Did you started trading before or after 2020?
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Trading should be called the waiting game.
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Friendly reminder:
Trading is super simple.
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Here’s the uncomfortable truth:
You’re not trying to make money.
You’re trying to protect an image of yourself:
“I’m smart.”
“I understand the market.”
“I shouldn’t be losing.”
That identity forces you to:
1. hold losers (because closing = admitting you’re wrong)
2. cut winners early (because profit feels fragile)
3. overtrade (because you need to prove something)
So your PnL becomes a psychological mirror, not a financial result.
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How long did it took you to blow your first account?
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If you are ruled by motivation you will fail.
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Trading isn't about beating the market.
It's about surrendering to it.
Most never reach surrender because it feels like death.
It is.
The death of the version of you that needs to be right.
The birth of the one who just follows the math.
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Scalping or swing trading?
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The biggest lie in trading:
“If I had more capital, I’d trade better.”
No.
You’d just lose bigger and faster.
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Small size makes more money than big size over time
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Friendly reminder:
No one is coming to save you.
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You think discipline is forcing yourself to follow rules.
It’s not.
Discipline is what happens when your standards become non negotiable.
No internal debate.
No “just this once.”
Just execution.
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The difference between a trader and a gambler is not the outcome of the next trade.
It's whether you can execute the same process after 3 losses in a row.
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