Advice on managing anxiety

Hey guys, been struggling with anxiety, could appreciate some of your advice on how to manage anxiety, I mean real life practices that you follow and it have actually worked.

Thanks in advance!

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Meditattion. Still the mind.

Do you drink coffee?

If so, stop.

1.- Get a Solid foundation on how to trade, you only need 2 steps "buy low, sell high" (believe it or not, all you need is in that phrase) and you are going to be profitable in the long run

2.- Use a Solid math approach for handling losing trades, handling the winners (YES; both are separate and can be done) AND a withdrawal plan and you are set

And the most important thing:

Accept the fact that NO MATTER how "accurate and perfect" you place a trade, sometimes, you ARE going to lose.. Period, end of history.

*Anxiety gone

Paroxetine if its an everyday anxiety thing and not from trading

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If it concerns trading I would advice to follow trading plan and especially pay attention to stop loss, because anxiety happens when take too much risk, i.e use leverage and low equity to open large position.

The devil's lettuce seems to work for me.

Hey, you should read Trading in the Zone

Managing trader anxiety is an important step in a successful trading journey. Start with a solid trading plan that outlines your strategies, risk management, and specific goals. Incorporating mindfulness and stress-reduction techniques, such as deep breathing or taking regular breaks, can also help calm the mind and keep emotions in check during trading.

Education is another crucial factor. Expanding your knowledge through resources and practice builds confidence, making the trading process less daunting. Even the most experienced traders feel anxious. However, you can circumnavigate this by creating a robust trading plan that you're confident on. Make sure you understand the markets you're trading and only fund your account with money that you can afford to lose.

This is the current trade we are taking with the Gents all the way from South Africa.

if you are struggling with anxiety, it means you are not confident in your setups and analysis which causes you to have anxiety which may lead to depression, so I'd say work on your craft before attempting to trade.

Set your own guidelines and rules about when you bow out of a strategy.

Many people put good money after bad, hoping for a turnaround.

That's a gamble, that just raises anxiety.

Additionally, if you are anxiety prone, long term investments are worth considering vs trading. You put in your investment and then try to forget about it. Over the long term, the volatility is less of a concern.

Try to keep you busy.

For general stress/anxiety issues:

1) Take a very deep breath for 4 seconds, hold it for 4 seconds, let it out for 4 seconds. Do this for a few minutes several times a day whenever you feel anxious. The deep breathing causes the sympathetic nervous system to relax your blood vessels, thus lowering your blood pressure (you can see for yourself on a blood pressure monitor). Do it at bedtime and you fall asleep faster, too.

2) A supplement called SAMe works very well for many people without putting them in a "fog". It is an OTC, natural supplement, but kinda pricey. Works well, though, I've used it before on ambulance runs (ex-EMT).

For trading:

1) Only take a high confidence trade.

2) Don't set your stops too tight. Remember, a trade needs to "breathe"...they seldom go straight up or straight down. A good rule of thumb I use is 3-5 times the bars of the chart you based your trade on (charts less than the Daily) and 1-3 times the bars of a Daily chart. So, if you are trading off the 30min chart, it may take 1.5-2.5hrs for the trade to mature.

3) Don't risk too much on a trade if you don't have 100% confidence in your strategy, and rather than trading that strategy, spend your time finding one you HAVE 100% confidence in.

4) Don't become greedy or try for the "homerun" every trade. You can make a good living on 10 pips per trade, just get to the point you can trade more contracts.

5) Once you are out of a trade, stop thinking about that trade; always be looking forward, because looking back in trading at the "what-ifs" won't just make you anxious, it will make you crazy!

Choose longer holding trades and risk only what you can afford to lose.

I have been struggling with it for years. To me there was some deeper reason: the need to emerge to search for acceptance.
You need to find a psychologist.

The good approach to trading is you take a bite. You don't try to emerge,.take a cut and walk away.

there is no technical of fundamental technique that would help with it, nothing i say in my opinion would help, but if there something you can do your self it would be to push through and stick to the rules you set for your trade and leave it no matter the result, then do it again untill u get used to the pressure

Here is the problem why many traders feel anxious when Trading..

1. Trading too high risk
2. Trading with too high balance
3.having no trading plan
4. Not fully understanding their own trading plan

Many just watch a YouTube Video and then get right into trading it live, because the guy in the video said its very profitable after all!

Here is the problem, how do you want to put money on the line, if you dont even understand the reasons behind that Systemand why it uses what it does for which reasons.


You need to really deep dive here and try to understand the model/strat/system to a VERY deep level.

Are you using Candlesticks? WHY?
Are you using Sessions/Killzones? WHY?
Are you using Indicators? WHY are you using them and for what purpose?

And those questions shouldn't be answered through 1 simple sentence, it needs to go a lot deeper than this.

You need to FULLY understand the tolls you are using to get comfortable in what you are doing.

If you are using the RSI, because another Trader used it and you dont even know why you use it for your own trading then you wont feel confident using this tool.

You will feel anxious, unsure and uncomfortable.