Open your demo journal and look at your last twenty red entries. How many were followed within five minutes by another entry? That second trade — the revenge trade — is rarely in the plan, and it's where good weeks go to die.
The rule
After any red demo trade closes: hands off the platform for 90 seconds, and one sentence in the journal before anything else — 'that happened because…'. Not a paragraph. One sentence. The point isn't the analysis; it's the interrupt. Impulse doesn't survive being written down.
- 0–30 seconds: away from the mouse. Stand up if you have to
- 30–90 seconds: one written sentence on what happened
- After 90: re-read your plan. If the next setup is in it, you may take it
“Fuaadh called me out directly: 'What you're doing is nonsense. Do it my way or don't do it at all.' Once I stopped overthinking and followed the plan exactly, results came fast.”
The Traderess coaching team
Written the way we coach — direct, structured, no shortcuts.