How to Stop Fear and Greed from Controlling Your Trades

Many traders think they need to "fight emotions" to improve their results. In reality, emotions are a symptom of poor risk management. Fear and greed take over when risk exposure is too high or when there is no structured plan.

The Solution: Use Risk Management to Train Emotional Discipline

Lower risk per trade until losses feel manageable. If a trade makes you nervous, you are risking too much.

Use a strict entry and exit system. When stop-loss and take-profit are pre-planned, emotional exits are eliminated.

Detach from individual trade results. A single trade doesn’t matter—the process does. If you follow your plan, outcomes take care of themselves.

Test discipline on a demo account first. If you cannot follow risk management rules in a risk-free environment, you won’t follow them in live trading.

Risk management isn’t just about protecting capital. It’s about removing the conditions that allow emotions to take control. On each of the topics I have written detailed articles about my experience and the solutions that I came up with for my own trading. If you are interested to know more you can check the link in my bio.

What’s the hardest part of sticking to your risk rules?

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