How do you protect your ego from the market?

The market is ego-hostile: it proves you wrong constantly, publicly if you post, and expensively if you fight it. Ego protection strategies range from humility practises to posting your mistakes on purpose.

How do you protect your ego from the market? — support and resistance diagram
Price bouncing between support and resistance

What works for you?

How do you protect your ego from the market? — trend versus range diagram
A trending market compared with a ranging one
  • the practise that keeps your ego in check
  • how you handle being wrong publicly
  • the humbling that did you good

The stop-loss guide is the mechanical ego check.

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