You know your system.
And still don’t stick to it?
You don’t need a new strategy. At the crucial moment, an emotion takes the wheel. Coaching with hypnosis – at the cause, not the symptom.
I know this
from the other side of the chart
Trading. Some rightly call it one of the hardest professions there is. “The hardest way to make easy money” – you’ve probably heard that one before.
What makes it so hard? It goes against our nature to lose money despite doing good work. You work conscientiously, you have a clean setup, you wait for confirmation and place your trade. And then: stop loss. The market doesn’t mean it personally – on this trade, the probabilities simply weren’t on your side.
I know this feeling in every cell of my body.
In February 2021, I placed my first trade. I learned a system, read books on trading psychology and price action and knew every rule. One month I was profitable, the next two I wasn’t. It went on like that for years. The more I knew, the worse my performance seemed to get. I blew up my own accounts and failed dozens of funded account challenges – and kept going anyway.
I knew that trading is largely psychology. I read the books more than once, because I felt: this is about me. Still, I couldn’t put it into practice. It took me a long time to understand that I was carrying unresolved issues from my life with me – and projecting them onto the market every day.
I was trading my emotions instead of the market. Frustration, doubt, anger and grief, too, ruled my everyday life. More than once I sat in front of the charts in tears. I say this openly because I know that many people feel exactly the same.
Your backtesting shows that you can be profitable in the long run – and your trading journal tells a different story? Then it’s rarely the system. Patterns and beliefs that originally had nothing to do with trading can decide between success and failure.
You know there is more in you than your account balance shows right now? Then let’s look deeper together.
Trade the market,
not your emotions
You close winners too early and let losers run?
You don’t set a stop – or keep moving it?
You increase your position size after losses?
The market makes you angry?
You can’t wait?
Since a big loss, you’ve been frozen?
You sabotage yourself just before reaching your goal?
One more course, one more indicator?
What can be behind
your trading emotion
The feeling at the chart is often just the tip. One possible example of how fear of loss can develop – not the only explanation:
- 1
An overwhelming experience
Something that overwhelmed you as a child. For example: you are harshly criticized, shamed or rejected for mistakes.
- 2
An imprint forms
An inner belief, such as: “I must not make mistakes.”
- 3
A protective program kicks in
Your subconscious wants to protect you from similar overwhelm: prevent mistakes at all costs, control everything, rule out risks.
- 4
The feeling in trading
Fear of loss. A loss no longer feels like a normal part of trading, but like a personal threat.
- 5
The behavior at the chart
Taking profits too early, hesitating despite a valid setup, holding on to losing trades – and acting less and less according to your own system.
In coaching, we look together at where your pattern originates – where it began, rather than where it shows up.
Why a new sentence
often isn’t enough
Affirmations start with the conscious thought. If the feeling underneath stays unchanged, a gap opens up between what you tell yourself and what you experience at the crucial moment.
“I accept every loss.”
Why does a loss feel like a personal threat in the first place?
“I am patient.”
Why is waiting so hard for you to bear?
“I am satisfied with my profits.”
Where does the feeling that it’s never enough come from?
Not simply laying new rules over old patterns – but starting where these patterns developed. Usually one session is enough for this.
It’s rarely
about the single trade
Behind what happens at the chart, there is almost always something older. A trader believes he is simply afraid of losses. In fact, every losing trade feels to him as if he could lose everything – because at some point he learned that losing means shame.
These deeper beliefs run faster than you can think. That is why pulling yourself together at the crucial moment helps so little.
Lost – or a loser?
“My trade was stopped out” is information. “I was stopped out” is a judgment about you. Those who feel the difference – not just know it – trade their plan.
Your 5-minute routine
before trading
The coaching addresses the cause. To help you stay clear in everyday life, you also get a short routine – for before you trade and for the moment when things get tight.
Breathing with a sigh
Breathe in deeply twice, breathe out long and audibly. A few breaths that can noticeably calm your nervous system – even right after a triggered stop loss.
Brain hemisphere board
Name shapes and colors crosswise. The exercise brings you out of the mental merry-go-round and back into the here and now.
3-2-1 self-hypnosis
Into a calm, focused state within a few minutes. You learn the technique in the coaching, with an audio guide for practice.
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Trading involves risks. This page is not investment advice and contains no promises of profit.