What does social media do to your trading psychology?

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Trading social media is engineered to trigger comparison, FOMO and urgency — the exact states that produce bad trades. Many traders improve simply by changing what they scroll.

What does social media do to your trading psychology? — central bank rate path diagram
A central bank's policy rate path across recent meetings

What's your experience?

  • how social media affects your trading mood
  • the accounts or content you had to cut
  • the difference it made
What does social media do to your trading psychology? — risk-reward diagram
A risk-reward ratio of 1 to 2

The signals and bots guide explains why the platform incentives are what they are.

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