Most accounts don't fail from a bad strategy — and they don't fail because of who you are. They fail because of a process your nervous system runs under pressure: avoiding pain, running hot, hunting stimulation, racing a clock, or riding a confidence swing. This screener names your primary process, what it's protecting you from, the modes it puts you in — and the trainable fix. Answer honestly about the last ~30 trading days.
Built by a triple board-certified psychiatrist who day-trades. For the data-verified version, upload your trade log instead.
Behavioral pattern analysis, not financial or medical advice.
Your answers stay in your browser — nothing is sent unless you choose to get your full profile.
Answer for the last ~30 trading days, not your best week.
Modes are costumes, not character — any trader's system can wear them on the wrong day.
What it’s costing you in real numbers, the specific thing to change first, and the two worksheets to do it with — an execution scorecard and a CBT log you can keep by the desk. Plus Stillpoint, a 90-second note before the open. Unsubscribe anytime.
If the process above is escalating, hidden from people close to you, or showing up in your sleep and mood — or if the same pattern has followed you since long before your first trade — that deserves a real evaluation rather than another discipline system. ADHD, autism spectrum traits, anxiety, mood problems, and trading that has crossed into an addiction all look alike on the desk and are treated differently.
Theodore Germanos, MD — the psychiatrist behind Psychiatrade, triple board-certified including addiction medicine — sees traders in clinical practice by telehealth across California.
Private-pay, superbills provided. This quiz does not establish a doctor–patient relationship.
A 90-second pre-market check-in in your inbox before the open — breathe, check your system, set your gates, one micro-lesson. Mon–Fri, market days only. No trade ideas, ever.
Download your result card and post it — tag @psychiatrade and we'll reshare the honest ones.
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