{"id":40647,"date":"2015-04-23T14:45:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T18:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=40647"},"modified":"2023-04-10T18:06:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T22:06:21","slug":"the-education-of-a-trader-trading-on-tilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/the-education-of-a-trader-trading-on-tilt","title":{"rendered":"The Education of a Trader: Trading on Tilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tradeciety.com\/\">Tradeciety.com<\/a> asked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How do you deal with emotions in your daily trading? What are your tips and suggestions that help you avoid, if possible, making emotional and psychologically caused trading mistakes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>@MikeBellafiore<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trading on tilt is the 800\u00a0pound gorilla on every trading station.\u00a0 On our desk today there were a few desk slams in this $FB, Facebook, as it changed direction as fast and frequently as an NFL running back. Managing your emotions as a trader is well&#8230;..manageable.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, I outline ways to help manage your emotions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taking notes actively while trading in a journal<\/li>\n<li>Focusing on improving everyday and not your PnL<\/li>\n<li>Developing outside interests so trading is not central to your self-worth<\/li>\n<li>Visualization exercises so you are not as hot as often for so long or as frequent<\/li>\n<li>Visualization Guide by Bruce Bower<\/li>\n<li>Taking a walk to cool down for 10 minutes<\/li>\n<li>As <a href=\"http:\/\/traderfeed.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/best-practices-in-trading-creating.html\">Dr. Steenbarger<\/a> suggests, measuring your heart rate while trading<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope this video helps you manage your emotions more effectively as a trader.<\/p>\n<p>And I ask our trading community, what tips do you suggest for managing your emotions while trading?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wistia_embed\" src=\"\/\/fast.wistia.net\/embed\/iframe\/ugeh7iqutb\" name=\"wistia_embed\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>*no relevant positions<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at Tradeciety.com asked: How do you deal with emotions in your daily trading? What are your tips and suggestions that help you avoid, if possible, making emotional and psychologically caused trading mistakes. @MikeBellafiore Trading on tilt is the 800\u00a0pound gorilla on every trading station.\u00a0 On our desk today there were a few desk slams in this $FB, Facebook, &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/the-education-of-a-trader-trading-on-tilt\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,456,455],"tags":[1193,1354,4405,682],"class_list":["post-40647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-comments-2","category-trader_development","category-trading_psychology","tag-trader-education","tag-trading-coach","tag-trading-on-tilt","tag-trading-psychology","no-post-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Education of a Trader: Trading on Tilt | SMB Training<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/the-education-of-a-trader-trading-on-tilt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Education of a Trader: Trading on Tilt | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our friends at Tradeciety.com asked: How do you deal with emotions in your daily trading? 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