How to Stop Revenge Trading: A Discretionary Trader's Protocol

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It starts with a normal loss.

Clean setup. Stop in the right place. Price tags it and you’re out $120. That’s the job. Nothing went wrong.

But it feels wrong. So you hop back in. Slightly bigger. On a chart that sort of looks like your setup if you squint.

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