Category: Blog Posts
Trading education and market commentary from The Two Traders: strategy, psychology, risk and the lessons behind our own trades.
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Overconfidence Bias in Trading: When Wins Make You Careless
Overconfidence bias in trading explained: how a winning run inflates size and trade count, a worked example of the cost, and simple…
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Sunk Cost Fallacy in Trading: Letting Go of a Bad Trade
The sunk cost fallacy in trading keeps you in losing trades because of what you have already lost. See how it works,…
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Recency Bias in Trading: Why the Last Few Trades Mislead You
Recency bias in trading explained: why the last few wins or losses feel like proof, how often streaks happen anyway, and review…
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Anchoring Bias in Trading: When a Number Holds You Back
Anchoring bias in trading explained: how entry prices, old highs and round numbers bend decisions, with a worked example and rules to…
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Loss Aversion in Trading: Why Losses Hurt Twice as Much
Loss aversion in trading explained: what the research says about losses hurting about twice as much, where it bends your trades, and…
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Gambler’s Fallacy in Trading: Why a Win Is Never Due
The gambler’s fallacy in trading: why a win is never due after losses, how it differs from the hot hand fallacy, and…
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Confirmation Bias in Trading: Why You See What You Want
Confirmation bias in trading: how it shapes your analysis, open trades and reviews, and a simple routine that puts the case against…
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Trading Discipline: How to Follow Your Own Rules
Trading discipline is following rules you wrote while calm. Why plans break in the moment, the if-then rules that help, and how…
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How to Stop Overtrading: Measure It, Price It, Cap It
How to stop overtrading: the signs to look for, what extra trades really cost in spreads and risk, and the daily limits…
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Learn to Trade (UK): Where to Start
Want to learn to trade in the UK? A beginner’s roadmap: read a chart, manage risk, build a method, write a plan,…