How do you handle a trade that haunts you?

Some trades stick: the stop moved and hit anyway, the winner closed early that ran to target, the missed setup that printed. The haunting affects the next trades until it's processed.

How do you handle a trade that haunts you? — drawdown and recovery diagram
An equity curve during a drawdown and its recovery

What do you do with it?

  • the trade you still think about
  • how you stop it colouring new decisions
  • the reframing that finally released it
How do you handle a trade that haunts you? — risk-reward diagram
A risk-reward ratio of 1 to 2

The journal guide helps put haunting trades into perspective.

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