Emotion Engine

Fear, FOMO, greed, euphoria. This is where we dissect the internal machinery that drives impulsive action and emotional chaos, and learn how to stop it.

Emotion Engine

12 June 2025

When Emotion Hijacks Reason in Trading

We’ve all felt it. Your heart pounds as the chart spikes or plummets. A surge of fear or FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) floods in, and suddenly your carefully crafted plan evaporates. In those moments, a primal part of your brain seizes control. Neuroscientists call it an amygdala hijack, an emotional takeover where instinct trumps […]

Trading isn’t about being right. Trading is about staying present while being wrong, again and again, yet still showing up day after day. I don’t believe in certainty, I believe in coherence. The market isn’t the enemy, the market is a mirror. Each trade confronts me with my impatience, my hope, my ego and my fears. It exposes the parts of me I try to control or deny, revealing the truth under pressure. I trade because this practice reveals what I avoid in silence. I trade because it leaves no space for improvisation, no room for the unprepared and no mercy for illusion. Trading is the most difficult thing I’ve ever done: emotionally, mentally and existentially. But it’s also the most honest, the most exacting and the most alive. Every time I enter a position, I meet myself again. That’s why I trade.

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