How do you keep trading and life separate?

Trading bleeds into everything: checking prices at dinner, mood swinging with the equity curve, losses landing on the family. Beginners underestimate how fast the bleed starts.

How do you keep trading and life separate? — drawdown and recovery diagram
An equity curve during a drawdown and its recovery

What boundaries work for you?

  • times when trading is simply off
  • how you stop results dictating your mood
  • the conversation you had with family or friends about it
How do you keep trading and life separate? — risk-reward diagram
A risk-reward ratio of 1 to 2

The psychology category is where these routines get shared honestly.

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