Mental Capital

In-depth discussions on options trading psychology.

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🧠 Mental Capital: Using Bear Call Spreads to Protect Your Portfolio

Learn how to use bear call spreads as a defensive hedge for your portfolio after strong rallies. A simple, rules-based strategy to protect gains without selling your winners.

🧠 Mental Capital: Why Good Traders Keep Throwing Money at Bad Options Trades

Learn why traders hold losing options positions too long and the systematic exit rules professionals use to cut losses fast. Includes the 50% rule, time-based exits, and a 4-week implementation plan.

🧠 Mental Capital: Why Your Trading Strategy Keeps Failing (It's Not What You Think)

Discover why your trading strategy keeps failing. Learn how unexamined beliefs sabotage options traders and the 3-step framework to build real conviction.

🧠 Mental Capital: Why Successful Traders Never Celebrate Too Much or Panic Too Quickly

Discover why successful traders maintain emotional equilibrium through wins and losses. Learn practical strategies to control trading emotions, avoid overconfidence after wins, and prevent panic during drawdowns.

🧠 Mental Capital: Thinking in Bets: Why the Best Traders Borrow from Poker

Learn why the best options traders think like poker players. Discover how probabilistic thinking, position sizing, and emotional discipline separate winning traders from the rest.

🧠 Mental Capital: How the Greats Think About Risk: Respect, Not Fear

Learn why successful options traders respect risk instead of fearing it. Discover the statistical, mechanical approach that separates pros from amateurs.

🧠 Mental Capital: The Paradox of Experience - How Veteran Traders Fall into New Traps

Experience can be both a trader’s greatest asset and their biggest liability. This article explores how legendary traders like Druckenmiller, Soros, and Jones fell into new traps by clinging too tightly to old lessons, and how you can keep experience from hardening into dogma.

🧠 Mental Capital: How the Greatest Traders Overcome Losses

The best traders in history aren’t defined by winning streaks, they’re defined by how they survive losses. Learn the mental frameworks, risk rules, and psychological resilience that protect both capital and confidence.

🧠 Mental Capital: Annie Duke and the Mental Game of Probabilistic Thinking

Former poker champion Annie Duke teaches traders how to preserve mental capital by thinking in probabilities, not absolutes. Learn how to reframe wins and losses like a pro.

🧠 Mental Capital: The Psychology of Sequence Risk: Why Your Wins and Losses Arrive Out of Order

The Psychology of Sequence Risk: Enduring the Market’s Cruel Joke of Wins and Losses

🧠 Mental Capital: The Cost of Certainty - Why Over-Explaining Kills Good Trades

🧠 Mental Capital: The Strain of Standing Still

In a world obsessed with constant motion, the most profitable skill may be learning when to stand perfectly still.