Overtrading
Understand why more trades often means lower process quality.
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Definition
Overtrading is not simply taking many trades. It is taking trades that do not meet the plan because boredom, fear, revenge, or urgency takes control.
Warning signs
You lower confirmation standards, enter outside planned sessions, ignore invalidation, or take a second trade only to erase the emotion of the first.
Journal cure
Tag the reason for every unplanned trade. Patterns become visible only when they are written down.
Rule
If the reason for entry cannot be written clearly, the trade probably should not exist.