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I was chatting with a veteran trading coach about a trader in drawdown.\u00a0 Is this drawdown part of her strategy or is she making it worse?\u00a0 Are you making things worse for your trading with your worst trades?<\/p>\n

Veteran Trading Coach: I actually love how she fights so much.\u00a0 She never wants to admit defeat in a trade until she hits her max stop loss.<\/p>\n

Me: That is not a good thing.\u00a0 How can we get her to start working on giving up when trades are not likely to work?<\/p>\n

Veteran Trading Coach: But she makes a very convincing argument for why she should keep fighting on all<\/i> her losing trades.<\/p>\n

Me: So she suffers from confirmation bias and is a persuasive arguer?<\/p>\n

Veteran Trading Coach:\u00a0 You are right.\u00a0 We need to start working on this with her.<\/p>\n

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I see this so much with the under-performing veteran market trader.\u00a0 They are wonderful at developing a thesis. But to be a sustaining consistently profitable trader you must combine thesis + price confirmation + news catalyst _ fight for price.\u00a0 And \u201cconviction\u201d is code for just trading a thesis and not overlaying variables needed for sustaining edge.<\/p>\n

Often you can make significant progress if you review your work and eliminate trades that are not working and you can feel mid-trade are not worth the risk.\u00a0 Learning to just cut them can dramatically improve performance. On some trades better to accept Game Over<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Fighting on every<\/i> trade until max stop loss is not a positive quality to possess as a trader.<\/p>\n

You do not have to cut all of these trades.\u00a0 But think of them on a spectrum from not worth cutting to I should definitely cut.\u00a0 Are there some of these trades that you could cut?\u00a0 Start with the most obvious trades for which you should fold.<\/p>\n

Save your buying power, intellectual capital, and emotional capital for the trades most likely to work.\u00a0 What a waste of energy fighting and sweating on positions that you should cut before max stop loss.\u00a0 Embrace Game over.<\/i><\/p>\n

Game over<\/i> can be a spring board to improved trading results for you.<\/p>\n

Related posts<\/b><\/p>\n

What is your \u201cmove on\u201d trading rule?<\/a><\/p>\n

My mistake, move on<\/a><\/p>\n

* no relevant positions<\/p>\n

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