See market prices of crypto currency increasingly fluctuate I think there are a lot of traders who suffered losses, and In taking a decision, many traders are still affected by emotions. Fourth factor that's the meaning, of is a type of emotions:
- Greed
Almost all traders familiar with the types of emotions, the desire to obtain profit possible in a very short time. Greedy nature incurred due to excessive self-confidence. Usually happens after the trader earn profit in a row. They are not aware or forgot that important fact in trading is not can expect definite results of each trade.
- Fear
A sense of fear entered the market usually occur after consecutive losses experienced trader. Fear is basically a natural response so that we can survive in the market. However, excessive fear will make traders lost the opportunity to gain profit. During trader comply with rules risk management and trading plan has been made, he should not be afraid to enter the market.
- Hope
Excessive hopes or unrealistic in trading could harm. Hope to always profit often cause traders to not follow trading plan that has been agreed upon.
- Regret
Regrets that constantly will destroy trading gradually. Regret usually arise after a trader lost some chances to buy or sell, or after experiencing considerable losses. If it is not quickly resolved, the kind of emotion this would be developed into fear, and in extreme cases could make him leave the world of trading.
To prevent these types of emotions , we should always be aware of whether we're in emotions when trading, because trading with the emotions will only make our trading destroy.
Some good points here. I'd add.....
- Anger
Can be felt mainly after a big loss, but also after suffering multiple losses in a row. Can cause a trader to drastically increase the amount of coin they buy in an attempt try to make back the money they lost. Can also make a trader to get 'trigger happy' i.e place significantly more trades than they usually would, also to make back what they lost.
-Denial
Is felt when something happens that isn't in accordance with the traders view of what was supposed to happen. E.g when Bitcoin started to crash lots of traders were in denial because they thought the price was going to rise forever. They couldn't imagine that it would fall after such a huge rise, so when it inevitably did they continued to believe that it would keep rising, even though the 'facts' (the continued decline) suggested the rise was over, at least for the time being.
Holding a losing trade open i.e letting the price continue fall below the price you bought some crypto at instead of selling, is caused by denial.
People think "the price will eventually rise again, so if I keep holding I can exit with a small loss or tiny profit". But there's no guarantee that will actually happen, and even if it does rise back to the point where they bought, and the trader get a chance to close his/hers trades, it will set a bad precedent, because the trader will then think the same thing will happen in the future.
So the next time he has a losing trade open he will assume the price will eventually rise again and give him a chance of closing at a small profit or loss, just like it did before. The problem is that may not happen, in which case, the trader will continue holding the trade open, having the loss grow bigger and bigger until eventually they lose all of their money.