Chart Vertigo

When you look at your chart and it’s been rocketing five sessions in a row, it’s getting kind of terrifying to even think about possible long entries. It just feels like it’s going to collapse. Especially if the chart is 25% up in the last two months.

And of course, a correction will come. Probably sooner rather than later. But you never really know.

Constantly thinking about this is one of the worst things you can do if your chart shows a solid long-term uptrend. It’ll make you:

• Miss long entries because you’re second-guessing everything

• Exit longs too early

• Enter shorts without a real setup

And yeah, it’ll all look pretty in your P&L. Not.

It really does resemble vertigo: that dizzy feeling you’re about to fall. You know it’s irrational, but it still hits. You feel it. You want out. You want to do something. And that’s where the damage begins.

Tame the fear

There are ways to deal with it.

Start by acknowledging the fear. Don’t fight it. Focus 100% on your strategy and setups. Make entries and exits based on your plan.

You know you’re going to feel that collapse panic.

You know one day it will collapse.

But since you have no idea when, your best move is sticking to your plan. Let the stop loss do its job. That way, at least you’ve made some profit when the collapse comes. Sitting on your hands (or worse, shorting because “it’s gone too high”) often leads to no profit at all. Or even worse, a loss.

Turn Your Weakness into a Trading Style

Different assets behave differently.

Currency pairs? Flat over the long term, but jumpy in the short term.

Commodities? Similar story—choppy, but not trending up 500% over a decade.

Stocks, on the other hand, can rise for decades if the business behind them keeps growing.

So if Chart Vertigo hits you hardest with stocks, maybe it’s worth shifting toward instruments that don’t climb forever. Commodities or currencies tend to bounce around in a range. That fear of collapse? It might actually help you time reversals there. Because those moves do snap back fast.

Takeaway

• Recognize chart vertigo when it kicks in.

• Stick to your system even when your brain screams otherwise.

• Trade instruments that suit your emotional patterns.

Thanks for reading, hit reply and tell me how this emotion has messed with your trading. See you again next week.

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