Dr. Fariborz Arbasi

  Who Is Trading Your Account Right Now? Alex had spent three years building the perfect trading system. Not a discretionary strategy. Not a collection of indicators. A fully automated algorithm. It had been tested against twenty years of market data. It knew exactly where to enter. Exactly where to exit. Exactly where to place a stop-loss. The system had no fear. No greed. No ego. For six months, it performed beautifully. Then, on a volatile afternoon following an unexpected Federal Reserve announcement, everything changed. The algorithm entered a short position. The market moved sharply against it. The stop-loss was approaching. And that's when Alex made a decision that would destroy years of work. He manually disabled the system. Removed the stop-loss. Increased leverage. And within forty minutes, he had done what the algorithm had never done during decades of historical testing. He blew up the account. A few days later, sitting in a therapist's office, Alex said something r...

Why Smart Traders Keep Making Stupid Decisions Every trader has experienced it. You spend the weekend reviewing charts. You update your trading plan. You define your risk. You promise yourself that this week will be different. Then Monday arrives. A losing trade triggers frustration. Another loss follows. Suddenly, you find yourself doing the very things you swore you would never do again. You move your stop-loss. You increase your position size. You enter a trade you never planned to take. Hours later, staring at the damage, you ask the same question: "What happened to me?" The answer is surprisingly simple. The person who created the trading plan is not always the person who executes it. The Myth of Consistency Most people believe they have a single, stable personality. A single decision-maker. A single self. But daily experience suggests otherwise. The confident trader who feels unstoppable after a winning streak often disappears after a large loss. The disciplined trader ...

Why Traders Break Their Own Rules A trader spends months building a system. He defines his entry criteria. He calculates his risk. He writes down every rule. Then, one afternoon, he breaks them all. He moves his stop-loss. He doubles his position. He chases the market. And later, staring at the damage, he asks the question almost every trader asks at some point: "If I knew what I was supposed to do, why didn't I do it?" The answer may be far more uncomfortable than most traders expect. Because the problem is rarely a lack of knowledge. The problem is the assumption that there is only one person making decisions inside your mind. The Illusion of a Single Self Most of us move through life believing we are a unified individual. One mind. One decision-maker. One stable self. It feels obvious. It feels true. But trading has a strange way of exposing the cracks in that assumption. The trader who creates a disciplined trading plan on Sunday is often not the same trader who faces...

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