The reason you become more anxious the more you lose isn't because you're losing money. It's because you "can't accept slow."
Most people have an implicit demand inside: I want to earn it back as quickly as possible.
So they start: increasing frequency, enlarging positions, lowering standards, thinking they are "speeding up." In fact, you're destroying the rhythm. Livermore's view on rhythm is very clear: "The market has its own timing, not yours."
Trading isn't a matter of being slow. It's that you can't accept slow, which causes you to make more mistakes faster and faster.
You're not
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