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The Role of Mechanical Trading in Emotional Control
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What this lesson covers
Mechanical trading means the rules decide, not you, and this lesson explains why that is the most effective protection against emotional decision making available. The problem it addresses is constant adjustment: traders second guessing analysis, overriding their own plans and changing position sizes based on fear, greed or a recent run of results. Every one of those requires a judgement call in the moment, and the moment is exactly when judgement is worst. A mechanical structure removes the call entirely. The lesson covers what makes a rule genuinely mechanical rather than a guideline, how to convert the discretionary parts of your process into defined criteria, and what to do about the situations that genuinely require judgement, which are fewer than most traders assume.