Courses › Trading Psychology Blueprint: Rewire Your Mind for Success
Loss Aversion – Why You Fear Losses More Than You Love Gains
This lesson unlocks with CTI funding
The first three lessons of every course are open to everybody. The rest of the Academy comes with a CTI funded account.
41 more lessons in Trading Psychology Blueprint: Rewire Your Mind for Success are waiting, and every other CTI course with them.
- Any funded account, any size One step, two step, instant or direct funding. Whichever you buy, and whatever size you buy it at, the Academy opens.
- Every course, not just this one All four courses, every module, every quiz, and the certificates that come with finishing them.
- It stays yours Access does not expire and is not taken back if the funded account ends.
Already funded with CTI? Sign in
What this lesson covers
Winning feels good, and that is not the interesting part. This lesson deals with the other side of it, which is that losing feels considerably worse than winning feels good, and by a wider margin than most traders realise. Loss aversion is the bias behind a large share of the mistakes that cost money: holding a losing position because closing it makes the loss real, taking a small profit early to avoid the discomfort of watching it disappear, and refusing a valid setup after a losing morning. The lesson explains where the bias comes from and how it shows up specifically in trading behaviour, then covers what to do about it, since the feeling does not go away and the aim is to stop it making the decisions.