Psychology shows up in data as stop moves, size spikes, and untagged trades — not as motivational posters. This hub is for process language you can grade: discipline vs FOMO, anchoring to entry vs structure, revenge sequences after losses. Each term links to journal fields (mood notes, rule violations, size changes) so Friday reviews catch behaviour before you raise lot size. Start with discipline and revenge trading if your equity curve is fine but your nights are not; use anchoring bias when exits keep referencing cost basis instead of invalidation. Pair this hub with /methodology/rules and weekly review habits — feelings without tags do not improve expectancy.
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Analysis paralysis is over-research that blocks execution. Playbook checklists vs endless chart tabs.
Anchoring bias overweights the first price you saw — entry, morning high, or VWAP — so later exits and adds ignore live structure on Nifty and Bank Nifty.
Cognitive dissonance is mental discomfort when actions contradict beliefs. Holding losers on Indian books.
Confirmation bias favours information that supports your thesis. Journal devil’s advocate notes on Reliance/Nifty trades.
A conviction score is a pre-trade self-rating of how strongly a trader believes a setup meets their criteria — used to analyse whether higher-conviction trades outperform lower-conviction ones.
Trading discipline is following your written rules under stress. Grading trades, mentor mode, and measurable adherence.
A discipline score is a composite metric that measures how consistently a trader followed their trading plan rules during a given session or period.
An emotion grade is a self-assessed score capturing a trader's emotional state during or after a trade — used to correlate psychological patterns with trading outcomes.
Fear and greed index gauges market sentiment. Contrarian context — India has local variants.
FOMO pushes entries without setup confirmation. Chase tagging, gap-up stats, and review questions.
Gambler's fallacy expects reversals after streaks. Dangerous after Nifty loss streaks.
Hindsight bias rewrites history as obvious. Distorts journal review after RBI days.
A journaling streak tracks how many consecutive trading days you have logged entries — a behavioral metric for consistency and self-accountability.
Loss aversion makes losses feel worse than equal gains. Holding losers and cutting winners on Indian books.
Mental accounting treats money in separate mental buckets. F&O vs cash psychology split.
Mindset is how you approach risk and uncertainty. Process focus for volatile Nifty weeks.
A mistake log is a dedicated record of trading errors — including rule breaks, sizing mistakes, and emotional trades — maintained separately to accelerate pattern recognition and elimination.
Overconfidence inflates skill belief after wins. Size creep on Bank Nifty after green weeks.
Overtrading is excessive frequency or size beyond your plan. Detect via trade count and cost drag on NSE books.
A pre-market routine is a structured checklist a trader completes before the market opens to define bias, review levels, and set the psychological and technical context for the session.
A pre-trade checklist is a written gate before every entry — setup, size, stop, and mental state. Reduce impulsive F&O trades on Nifty and Bank Nifty.
Process vs outcome separates rule quality from P&L luck. Core review lens in TradeLyser.
Recency bias overweight latest events. One bad Nifty day rewriting whole month narrative.
Revenge trading is impulsive size or frequency after a loss. Detection metrics and pause rules in TradeLyser.
A rule break is any trade action that deviates from the trader's documented trading plan — the primary cause of inconsistent results in traders with a valid edge.
Self-attribution credits wins to skill, losses to luck. Skews journal honesty.
Sunk cost fallacy holds losers because of prior commitment. Hoping Reliance returns to entry.
Tilt is emotional play after setbacks. Detect via size and frequency spikes on NSE books.
Trader burnout is exhaustion from screen stress. Common after volatile Nifty quarters.
Trading anxiety is fear before or during trades. Sizing and hesitation on NSE open.
Trading psychology explains behaviour under stress. Tag emotions on NSE session reviews.
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