Trading Psychology · Trading discipline
Know your exit before you enter — the line between trading and gambling
Flow's rule: decide where you'll get out before you get in — then actually do it. Holding losers (and holding winners past your plan) is how accounts blow up.
You have to exit where you said you'd exit — period. Holding a loser "because it'll come back" loses you far more than getting out would have; holding a winner just because it's green is the same mistake in reverse. It's all risk management: size small enough that any single trade can't take you out.
Your exit is a decision, not a feeling
Flow is blunt: "you got to exit where you say you were going to exit." You can't hold losing trades hoping they come back — "you will lose way more than what you would have if you just would have gotten out." And you can't hold winners just because you're up, "thinking it's going to continue to go up." Know your exit, then get out when you said you would.
Risk management is the whole game
Sizing is the safety net. "If you're only using 5% of your account and it goes against you and you lose it, you're fine." It's the "I'mma hold on to this one" mindset that loses the whole thing. Flow closes on Buffett's two rules: rule number one, never lose money; rule number two, don't forget rule number one.
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Flow the Investor is the creator of Heavy Returns, a financial-media brand teaching everyday people to invest and trade with discipline — what he calls Trained Money. He presents every video on the official @HeavyReturns channel.
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