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Trading glossary · psychology

fear

The worried feeling that makes you want to run away from a trade, even when your plan says stay.

The fuller meaning

The emotion that pushes traders to exit winners early, freeze or skip valid setups after losses. With greed it drives many plan breaks; the lessons counter it with exits written while calm, small risk per trade and naming the feeling in the journal.

fear.

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