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You Did Not Lose Money This Week. Your Stop Loss Made You Money.
Every trader has a week like this one.
RB Trading10 min read·Just now--
The setups looked right. The entries were clean. The thesis made sense on both trades. And then the market did what the market always does when you least want it to it went the other way.
Two trades. Two losses. -1R on each.
Total damage: -2R.
That is the week we are going to talk about today. Not because losing is fun. Because how you respond to a losing week is the single most important factor in whether you are still trading two years from now.
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Most retail traders will do one of three things after a week like this.
They will abandon their system entirely and start trading on instinct. They will double their size on the next trade to make the losses back in one hit. Or they will freeze completely, miss the next three setups, and wonder why they always seem to buy tops and sell bottoms.
Every one of those responses is wrong.
The right response is the boring one.
You look at each trade. You confirm the plan was followed. You accept the outcome. You close the laptop and move on.
