Psychology & Plan
Tilt (revenge trading)
Trading to recover a loss rather than because a setup exists. The fix is a hard daily loss limit and physically leaving the screen.
Also called: revenge trading
In practice
You lose two trades in a row and feel a loss was 'unfair'. Angry, you double your next position size and take a marginal setup to win it back — classic tilt. That revenge trade loses too, and a normal 2R day becomes a 6R disaster because emotion, not the plan, was driving.
Why it matters for traders
Tilt is how a single normal loss metastasises into an account-destroying day, because the brain's need to recover a loss overrides every rule. The traders who survive it are not the ones who never feel it, but the ones with a pre-set daily loss limit and a rule to leave the screen the moment they feel it starting.
Common pitfall
The error is believing willpower alone will stop tilt, when the brain's loss-recovery drive overrides logic in the moment. The reliable fix is structural: a hard daily loss limit that halts trading automatically, and a physical rule to leave the screen the moment frustration rises. Also, recognise early signs — the urge to 'win it back,' bigger lots, revenge entries — and act before the first revenge trade, not after the account is damaged.
Lessons that use this term
- Common beginner mistakes
Overtrading, revenge trading, no stop loss, over-leveraging — and how to stop.
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