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Trading glossary

Tilt:
when the plan slips.

Trading on emotion after a loss or a streak: bigger, faster and looser than your plan. The word comes from poker.

TiltTrading on emotion after a loss or a streak: bigger, faster and looser than your plan.

On tilt, you stop trading your setups and start trading your feelings. It rarely shows as one big mistake; it’s a run of small ones: a faster trade, a bigger size, a stop moved, another trade to win it back.

Example

Three losses before 10 AM. The fourth trade is twice the size, the fifth comes two minutes later, the sixth has no stop. By 11 the day is gone, and none of the last three trades was in your plan.

The signs the tilt meter reads
  • Trades coming faster than usual
  • Size going up after a loss
  • Getting out faster
  • Straight back in after a loss
  • Losses in a row
  • How you say you feel
Calm, Warming up, Hot or Tilt.Journalcade’s tilt meter reads today against your own last six weeks.See the tilt meter →

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In Journalcade

A tilt meter that knows your normal.

A small gauge in the sidebar reads today against your last six weeks. Tap it to see what is driving it; at Tilt it can start a cool-down for you.

  • Calm, Warming up, Hot or Tilt
  • The trades behind each sign
  • An optional cool-down lock
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Journalcade · Cool-down
The circuit breaker in Journalcade on sample trades
Questions

Quick answers.

How do I know I’m on tilt?+
The signs show in your trades before you feel them: trades coming faster, size going up after a loss, straight back in after a loss, losses in a row.
How do I get off tilt?+
Stop and step away. A break decided in advance, like a cool-down after a set loss, works better than deciding in the moment.
Is tilt only about losing?+
No. A big win can do it too: feeling unbeatable and sizing up is tilt in the other direction.
What is the difference between tilt and revenge trading?+
Revenge trading is one kind of tilt: trading to win back a loss right away.
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