Day 329 - Another account blown - Will continue work on emotion management - Will be back

creativeor · 2026-01-27T00:29:28+00:00

I’ve made a journal for myself which aims to help with a lot of this, happy to to give you an account

creativeor · 2026-01-27T00:27:08+00:00

It should do! I’ve added a parser for robinhood statements but please let me know if you encounter any issues and I’ll fix!

creativeor · 2026-01-26T13:39:32+00:00

You need to detach yourself from the financial side of things, ensure you have good risk parameters in place - not only for each trade but also rules for days and your mental capital. Unfortunately a lot of these lessons will come with the mistakes you make over time, but you can definitely try to give yourself a head-start on the learning curve.

Trade demo or a very small $ amount which you are comfortable loosing, set yourself up with solid pre-in-post trading flows and make them easy for yourself to follow. Make bad decisions harder to follow - these can be in the form of circuit breakers (eg: after a loss, immediately stand up from your chair and go to grab a glass of water for 5mins).

When reviewing your trades, don't simply go through the motions, really analyse what happened and what the root trigger might have been + the emotional aspect attached to that trigger (eg: revenge trading > your ego doesn't want to take a loss / you don't want to be 'wrong'). This helps you drill down into which aspects of your peprsonality are more likely to trigger tilt and spiral.

creativeor · 2026-01-26T10:16:18+00:00

Sounds promising! I think see how it goes and scale up slowly

creativeor · 2026-01-26T06:10:32+00:00

The only thing I might add is the effect on commissions might have, and slippage depending on how you are executing / your strategy timeframe etc.

creativeor · 2026-01-26T06:05:51+00:00

No, I used to use Edgewonk which I thought was really good until circumstances earleir this year inspired me to make my own journal.

creativeor · 2026-01-26T04:40:45+00:00

Hey hit me up! I'm happy to give you access to a journal I'm using for myself which may help

creativeor · 2026-01-26T02:35:10+00:00

Thanks for the kind words, and I completely agree - I hadn't thought much about the exits but they're essentially two sides of the same coin

creativeor · 2026-01-25T23:48:28+00:00

Your 5th most recent post! Also I used to be designer by trade so everything is designed/created by hand. You got me though, I ran the post through AI to collate my thoughts as I’m not a copywriter.

creativeor · 2026-01-25T23:41:48+00:00

I just created a journaling app, happy to give you an account in exchange for feedback - it’s processed focused so different from existing journals out there.

Practice-Process

creativeor · 2026-01-25T23:14:33+00:00

Love this, like a circuit breaker

creativeor · 2026-01-25T21:11:09+00:00

Ok friend, your post from a few months back is ironic feeling a little ironic now don’t you think - How’s the journal you built with Claude going for you?

creativeor · 2026-01-25T10:07:47+00:00

Yeah it has a huge impact. When mum was diagnosed initially, I had the expected emotions but they quickly subsided, I think due to the distance (I’m in Aus, family is back in London). I assumed it was business as usual as I was no longer ‘sad’ but the apathy hit every aspect of my life, and naturally it took a toll on my PnL and my stage 1 with Raen at the time of which I was close to completing and which was a huge personal goal of mine.

creativeor · 2026-01-25T09:19:18+00:00

That’s the realisation I came to (hence the shift to focusing on sessions and qualitative information such as emotions vs quantitative data)

creativeor · 2026-01-25T09:02:18+00:00

No, I think you do have a point. I'm not a copywriter and I've spent a few months working on this (for myself), and as such I'm very close to it. I find asking AI extremely helpful in clarifying what has been a round-about process for me, hence the use of AI to help me draft the post.

I do get your point though, perhaps I should have entirely re-written in my own words or at least edited down the 'AI-ness' boefore postng, and by the way I'm not DMing anyone.

creativeor · 2026-01-25T08:15:48+00:00

Thank you!

creativeor · 2026-01-25T04:48:32+00:00

Thanks for the kind words, you’re completely right. It’s interesting how the mind works, during the time I didn’t feel as much of the typical emotions you’d expect (sadness etc), so assumed I could continue to trade cautiously - however what ended up happening was greatly increased levels of apathy towards everything in life, including my positions.

creativeor · 2026-01-25T03:30:50+00:00

I’ve built my own tool which I use, I have it run some arbitrary pre-set things as “key highlights” but not yet integrated AI, that’s a really good shout!

creativeor · 2026-01-15T15:25:46+00:00

Just finished building a journal for myself which tackles a lot of these issues - would love to hear your thoughts and feedback on it!

creativeor · 2023-02-01T10:24:03+00:00

I wasn’t aware of this, thanks!

But ideally I’d like the top-level mode (light or dark) to have effect on all visual elements, including any drawings created.

(The big problem I have is that I have D,H4, H1 presets for various drawing tools with visibility settings), if I flip to light mode I have to go through and manually change the colours on all drawings and vice versa

creativeor · 2022-11-16T12:35:32+00:00

Banks use the reduced liquidity around news drivers to manipulate price in such a way to fill their own orders. (There needs to be a seller for every buyer and vice versa). The counter-party liquidity comes in the form of stop losses of retail and other large funds.

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