Why losses are important in trading.

Joe Sherwood
3 min readJun 16, 2020

A large trading loss can be devastating — not only financially, but emotionally.

And I can with such confidence every trader on this earth has been there, we have all stared at the screen with such devastation. With a headache. And moral going through the floor. However, this is not the end, let me show you why.

As defeating as losses feel, how we react to loss that is more important than the loss itself. Inexperienced traders suffering a large loss can become hijacked by their emotions. Some may try to trade through the pain, denying it…

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