Trading Psychology Glossary
Most traders don’t blow up on one big mistake — they bleed out from the same handful of habits, repeated. These are the behavioral patterns CernoQuant detects in your own trade history, each defined plainly and grounded in how the engine actually measures it. No advice, no signals — just the patterns, named so you can see them.
Revenge Spiral
Revenge trading is re-entering the market with a larger position soon after a losing trade — an attempt to win the loss back quickly rather than a decision from your plan.
Overtrader Paradox
Overtrading is placing far more trades than your own norm on a given day, where the extra activity tends to lower the quality — and the P&L — of each individual trade.
Opening Bell Gambler
The opening-bell pattern is placing a disproportionate share of your trades in the first minutes after the market opens — a window of elevated volatility and poorer fills.
Expiry Day Casino
The expiry-day pattern is a sharp rise in trade frequency on option expiry days — sessions defined by rapid theta decay, thin premiums and settlement-driven slippage.
Position Size Chaos
Position-size chaos is sizing that varies widely without a consistent rule, where your larger trades show a different P&L profile than your standard-size trades — a sign sizing may be driven by feel, not process.
Loss Streak Escalation
Loss-streak escalation is continuing to trade — sometimes harder — during an extended run of consecutive losses, where those trades show a distinct P&L profile versus trades placed outside a streak.
Winner Cut Short
Cutting winners short is the habit of holding winning trades for less time than losing trades — booking small gains quickly while giving losers room, which lowers how much of each move you actually capture.
Holding Losers
Holding losers is keeping losing positions open well beyond your own norm — the disposition effect — where the average hold time on losing trades exceeds your baseline and losses grow larger than they needed to be.
Instrument Concentration
Instrument concentration is placing the large majority of your trades — over 80% — in a single instrument, indicating reliance on one market rather than a diversified set of setups.
See these patterns in your own trades
CernoQuant reads your imported trade history and surfaces which of these patterns show up for you — how often, and how your outcomes on those trades compare to your baseline. It identifies patterns; it never gives financial advice or trade signals.
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