How to Stop Revenge Trading — Recovery Routine
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How to Stop Revenge Trading

How to stop revenge trading — a working recovery routine.

Revenge trading is broken by a pre-committed rule, not by willpower in the moment. After any -X% day, no trades for N hours; LIANA-guided review during the pause; return only when Emotion Score is back inside your baseline.

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The rule

Pre-commit before you need it.

Write the rule down before the losing day happens. "After any -1% day, no trades for the rest of the session. After any -3% day, no trades for 24 hours. During the pause: review the last five trades with LIANA and write the one lesson."

The specific numbers do not matter. The pre-commitment does. Willpower cannot rewrite the rule mid-loss; only the trader you were before the loss can.

The review

What the pause is for.

During the pause, run through the losing trade with LIANA: what was the setup score? What was the plan-fit factor? Was the sizing inside baseline? Was Emotion Score already elevated before the trade?

The goal is to name the specific behaviour that failed — not to re-litigate the market. The next-session gate is: Emotion Score back inside baseline, plus the named behaviour flagged in the Decision Score checklist for the coming week.

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FAQ

Common questions.

What is the fastest way to stop revenge trading?

A pre-committed rule that runs automatically after any -X% day. Willpower in the moment is unreliable; a rule written down beforehand is not.

How long should the pause be?

It scales with the loss. A -1% day usually needs a session-length pause; a -3% day usually needs 24 hours. Personal thresholds vary.

What if the pause makes me miss a good setup?

That is the cost of the rule — and it is materially smaller than the cost of a revenge-trade escalation. Behavioural improvement often means accepting missed opportunities to prevent worse ones.