Sunday, August 14, 2016 4:03:06 PM
In my opinion, holding a loss is just tied up funds you could be using to make your money back. At least that is the way I look at it. I don't know how many times I've taken a loss and made it back the same day. Most of the time I make it back plus more. Holding the loss position would've put me in either direction so why not take the loss to have a secured negative figure and use the same funds to make another trade and make it all back or make several trades and make it all back. I don't mean to criticize anyone; as each person has their own technique or styles of trading but from the many years I've been doing this, holding a loss doesn't get you any where just like money sitting in a bank act is dead money. Use money to make money. Holding a loss not only prevents you from using that money to make a profitable trade but it also has a psychological factor in it by holding a position that is constantly under water regardless if a day or a few days the position isn't as "underwater". Get out of it, take a loss, refresh yourself and you can focus on making that money back in a positive headspace.
Believe it or not, there is a lot of psychology in trading. Seeing negative positions in an account affects the way one trades that is why I believe to take my loss almost immediately. Holding red positions affect concentration of new positions. It all comes down to the simplistic colors of the market; hence why green markets are positive and red markets are negative. The brain interprets red as a very negative color and actually creates a negative headspace. If you have some time, read some psychology articles. I wish more people understood that trading is psychological. I think you'd find it interesting being that we've been chatting about emotions and how it affects ones trading abilities.
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