LEARN
Trading psychology, from the clinic
Short, evidence-cited reads on the psychology and physiology of trading decisions — written by a triple board-certified psychiatrist who trades his own account. No trade ideas, ever.
START HERE
Losing money trading?
The four patterns behind most losing accounts — chasing, fear, stimulation, state drift — and where to start on each.
LOSSES · STATE
Why do I keep losing money trading?
Separating a strategy problem from a state problem, the evidence on decision drift, and what actually changes the pattern.
TILT · LOSS-CHASING
How to stop revenge trading
Why the urge to win it back is loss-chasing by another name, why it strikes in the afternoon, and the rules that actually hold.
RECOVERY
I blew up my trading account — what now?
The first 72 hours, the aftermath as a health event, the state post-mortem, and the criteria that should gate any rebuild.
FEAR · PHYSIOLOGY
Trading anxiety: why it shows up and what helps
The two costumes trading anxiety wears, sleep as a risk parameter, and a two-minute intervention with RCT support.
EXECUTION · HESITATION
Fear of pulling the trigger
Why hesitation is not an information problem, why more analysis makes it worse, and the graded-exposure protocol that fixes it.
THE DECISION
Should I quit trading?
An honest framework from someone with nothing to sell you: evidence, full-ledger cost, the sunk-cost trap, and when the decision needs a clinician.
ADDICTION MEDICINE
Day trading addiction: when trading becomes gambling
The clinical signs translated to the screen, why day trading specifically, and what treatment actually looks like — from a physician boarded in addiction medicine.
PROCESS
Good trade, bad outcome: grade the decision, not the P&L
Resulting, the four-square decision grid, and why a paid-out mistake is the most expensive thing the market sells — with the fix that actually holds.
ADDICTION MEDICINE
Stock market gambling addiction: when trading stops being investing
The DSM-5 criteria translate to a brokerage account with almost no editing. The line between investing and gambling, the nine signs, and what actually helps.
ADDICTION MEDICINE
How to stop a day trading addiction
You have already tried. Why willpower is the wrong tool, and the four steps that actually work — in order.
ADDICTION MEDICINE
Am I addicted to trading?
The nine questions a psychiatrist would actually ask — and the things that do not settle it either way.
FOR FAMILY
My partner is day trading our savings
Protect the money first. What to say, what makes it worse, and when it is more urgent than money.
ADDICTION MEDICINE
Is trading gambling?
It depends on how you are doing it, not what you are trading. Where the line actually falls.
ADDICTION MEDICINE
Prop firm challenges: why you keep buying another reset
A fee per attempt, an uncertain reward, and a near-miss by design. The reset button is the product.
ADDICTION MEDICINE
Trading addiction help: where to actually get it
Free helplines, free groups, therapy with evidence, and when a psychiatrist is the right call.
ADDICTION MEDICINE
Is day trading addictive?
Dopamine fires hardest for uncertain reward, and intraday trading is uncertainty on tap. Who is most at risk, and the signs it has stopped being a choice.
CLINICAL
Trading therapy: what actually helps a trader who keeps losing
Coaching, CBT, or psychiatry — each treats a different thing. How to tell which door is yours.
ADHD · ADDICTION MEDICINE
Untreated ADHD, addiction risk, and trading
Why the most stimulating corner of finance recruits ADHD brains, what the addiction research shows, and why the risk curve is not fixed.
START WITH THE PATTERN
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