The worst psychological reactions traders make:
- Panic: Simply the worst reaction, and it happens when the markets dump (like these days! lol).
- Impatience: They buy coin X and they sell when it's in 10% profit, only to watch it go a lot higher!
- Urgency: When they lose money they get angry and want to avenge the market and recover fast, only to find out it makes them lose more and probably go rekt!
- Nonpersistence: Losses happen. When you fall down, just stand up and fight again, until you win.
I've made all of these mistakes. I hope you don't make a lot of them...
No one's going to disagree, but there's a reason that the very best traders (expressed not as the ones making the most money but the ones with the most predictable and consistent performance) are sometimes known to exhibit psychotic or socially deviant characteristics.
All the above can almost be eliminated by the most basic training any trader has to learn that focuses on discipline. To enter trades at pre-determined entry points (Entry), to allow trades to conclude on their own, also at predetermined exits (take profit and stop loss). If everyone learnt this lesson well and could practise it with rigid attention, psychology wouldn't have any data to study at all
The exception is your last "reaction". All traders, by definition, are persistent. It is their persistence that keeps them as traders, is it not?