Decision Fatigue in Trading
After trading for several hours something happens to your brain! I have experienced this several times and when the brain gets fatigues the tendency to make the wrong decision is 90% higher. This thread is for us to discuss our experience with decision fatigue wile trading and how we overcame it. Please share only meaningful stories and avoid unclear explanations or you will be kicked off the thread.
Thank you poster for this thread, this happened to me yesterday. I was trading from London into NY session several hours! During NY I was waiting for a candle to close below another one but somehow my brain told me it had closed and i took the trade. It was only after I lost the trade that I checked closely and discovered the candle didnt actually close below the one I expected. It was as if my eyes played tricks on me. I immediately knew it was decision fatigue. Now I have decided to reduce my trading hours to three max.
Sometimes fatigue can even make you click on buy when you intenede to cick onn sell. It could even make you trade on the chart for the wring instrument without knowing. One day I mistakenly traded on GBP/USD chart instead of EUR/USD chart because i was tired.
Sometimes fatigue can even make you click on buy when you intenede to cick onn sell. It could even make you trade on the chart for the wring instrument without knowing. One day I mistakenly traded on GBP/USD chart instead of EUR/USD chart because i was tired.
This has happened to me before. There was a trade i wanted to click buy but because of fatigue i clicked sell and i was not even aware until i came back to the chart. The trade was already against me, i waited for it to come back to entry but it didnt. The trade ended in loss.
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I just couldn’t be angry with myself sincerely 🤣