How to control ourself when we lose money?

If you have proper discipline, nothing "outside" matters.

It's quite a chore to get your brain in proper focus to trade well. Easy to make mistakes (some, serious) until you do.

If somebody trained their brain to be discipline in any case it will help. Unfortunately majority can't do it.
 
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You should already have it calculated how much money you will lose if you sell and when you plan on selling before you even enter a position. Everyone likes to think about the money they will win, nobody likes to think about the bad side, but you have to. If you get caught like a deer in the headlights because of not planning ahead then you earned it. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

Usually people lose their head in both variants: when they win and when they lost. There are alot of stories what happened with people who won big money in lottery.
 
If somebody trained their brain to be discipline in any case it will help. Unfortunately majority can't do it.

Becoming disciplined about all aspects of trading... is a MAJOR challenge! As for "majority can't do it"... I suggest most haven't tried hard enough, if they've tried at all. I sometimes get the feeling that traders kind of "get involved" in the markets and hope that by osmosis or other that it finally all just comes together for them... like having an epiphany by getting struck by lightning or finding the mother lode. Doubt it works for anybody that way.
 
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Becoming disciplined about all aspects of trading... is a MAJOR challenge! As for "majority can't do it"... I suggest most haven't tried hard enough, if they've tried at all. I sometimes get the feeling that traders kind of "get involved" in the markets and hope that by osmosis or other that it finally all just comes together for them... like having an epiphany by getting struck by lightning or finding the mother lode. Doubt it works for anybody that way.

there is opinion in economics science about "homo economicus" (R. Thaler) people who always make correct rational solutions. In the real life we have situations which were described by Soros about regular overestimation and underestimation which often happen on the markets. This is why prices sometimes do something critical that not suitable for standard systems of deviations, and not in the frame of fundamental reasons.

We sometimes naive when thinking we can control our losses or our behaviour during big losses. So the topic was about that we sometimes make irrational choice based on situation in which we trapped, and often our conclusions and actions aren't logical.

And one of the solution is decreasing of impact such cognitive traps by decreasing of sizing or bets.
 
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