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Ep. 22 Why You Break Your Trading Plan Even When You're Disciplined

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You have a trading plan. You know your rules. You consider yourself disciplined.

But then it happens.

One loss turns into two. Two turns into five. And suddenly you're breaking every rule you swore you'd follow—watching yourself do it, but unable to stop.

That's tilt. And it's not a discipline problem.

In this episode, I break down what tilt actually is: a neurobiological hijack where your survival brain overrides your trading brain. You'll learn why your prefrontal cortex goes offline under stress, why you "black out" during your worst sessions, and most importantly—how to catch tilt before it catches you.

We'll cover:

The stress cascade that shifts you from rational to reactive trading
Real story: How a funded trader lost $6,800 in one session (and what he learned)
Your body's pre-tilt signals that appear 10 minutes before you break
The Red Line Protocol: Hard stops that protect you from yourself
Why tilt destroys more than your account—it erodes trust, data integrity, and mental capital

You can't stop tilt with willpower once you're in it. But you can build an early-warning system that catches it before logic goes offline.

Because the best traders aren't the ones who never tilt—they're the ones who recognize it faster and stop it sooner.

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