How do life events affect your trading?

Illness, breakups, family crises, moves, new jobs — life's disruptions leak into trading through stress and distraction. The professional response is to recognise it and adjust.

How do life events affect your trading? — moving average crossover diagram
A fast moving average crossing a slower one

Share:

  • the life event and how it showed up in your trading
  • what you changed during the disruption
  • how you knew when you were back
How do life events affect your trading? — risk-reward diagram
A risk-reward ratio of 1 to 2

Trading smaller or not at all during hard stretches is a legitimate strategy.

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