WINNING LESSONS FROM LOSING TRADERS

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You already know what you should do. That's the strange part.

You know you should wait for the setup. You know not to add to a losing position. You know the trade you're about to take makes no sense — you wrote it in your journal last night, calm and clear-eyed. Then the market opens, and you do the opposite again.

This is not another book about strategy or technical analysis. It's a book about that gap — the distance between what a trader knows in the evening and what they actually do the next morning. And that gap looks the same in every market, every currency, every country.

To prove it, we open two real trading journals kept by two ordinary retail traders. One logged more than 200 trades across sixteen months on India's Nifty and Bank Nifty — raw, self-critical, marking the revenge trades and the long losing spirals in their own words. The other tracked 168 trades on US indices like SPY and QQQ with cold, systematic scoring, labelling the exact moments hope replaced judgement.

Different continents. Different markets, currencies, and languages. The same behavioural patterns underneath, almost line for line. That is the point. The instinct that wrecks an account does not care where you live.

Inside this book on trading psychology and behavioral finance, you will learn:

The five archetypes that quietly drain ordinary trading accounts — shown in real journal entries, not theory
Why one trader won 66% of good entries but only 24% of bad ones — and kept taking the bad ones anyway
How a single losing morning becomes a losing month, and where the spiral actually begins
Why revenge trading, hope, and the logic-less click feel completely rational in the moment they destroy you
What genuinely separated the winning trades from the losing ones in both journals
How to catch yourself in the gap — before the next click, instead of explaining it afterward
This is not a promise you'll start winning. It's something more useful: a mirror, and a way to recognize yourself before you act.

If you've lost money trading, or you're about to start, this is the book on emotional discipline and trading mistakes that nobody handed you first.

Start reading today.

About the Author

Surinder Singh Khurana is a researcher with a background in machine learning, where his work centred on finding patterns in very large amounts of data. Some of that work touched the markets - the kind of fast, automated trading that runs on rules a human cannot execute by hand - and it left him with a question he could not put down: if a machine can follow a rule without flinching, why can a person not?
That question led him away from market data and toward people. He spent a long time reading real trading journals - the private, day-by-day records that ordinary retail traders keep while they trade their own money - looking for the behaviour underneath the numbers. This book grew out of two of those journals, kept on two different continents, and the single pattern he found running through both.
He does not present himself as a trader who got rich, and he does not teach strategy. What he offers instead is a careful, sympathetic look at how losing actually happens - written, as he puts it, like a friend who watched someone lose money rather than a professor standing above them.
He writes on the psychology of trading, decision-making, and the gap between what we know in the evening and what we do the next morning.

Book Details

ISBN: 9789360382087

Publisher: Independently Published

Number of Pages: 162

Dimensions: 5.5"x8.5"

Interior Pages: B&W

Binding: Paperback (Perfect Binding)

Availability: In Stock (Print on Demand)

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