anyone sick and tired of revenge trading?
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Mia CarusoTL
@miatradez·May 4
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Mia CarusoTL@miatradez·May 4
@miatradez·May 4The 90-Second Window That Costs Most Traders Their Week
Every revenge trade starts the same way.
You take a clean loss. The setup was fine. Risk was sized. But the P&L flashes red and something shifts.
Not in your strategy. In your chest.
The next 90 seconds decide everything. You either close the chart and walk, or you click into another order that has nothing to do with your plan.
I tracked this in my own trading for 6 months.
The best part? I'm giving it away for free!!
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Mia CarusoTL@miatradez·May 4
@miatradez·May 4The 90-Second Window That Costs Most Traders Their Week
Every revenge trade starts the same way.
You take a clean loss. The setup was fine. Risk was sized. But the P&L flashes red and something shifts.
Not in your strategy. In your chest.
The next 90 seconds decide everything. You either close the chart and walk, or you click into another order that has nothing to do with your plan.
I tracked this in my own trading for 6 months. Here's what I found:
3 cues fire before every revenge trade:
You check the dollar amount, not the setup. The moment you're staring at how much you lost instead of whether the trade was valid — you've already left your system.
Your sizing impulse changes. You don't consciously decide to go bigger. You just... don't scale down. The position feels "right" at 2x because you're anchored to the loss, not the edge.
You skip the pause. No walk. No breath. No checking if the next setup is actually there. You just go — because sitting still feels like losing more.
If even one of those three hit after a red trade, the next click probably isn't your system talking. It's tilt wearing your system's clothes.
The fix isn't willpower. It's recognition. If you can spot the cue before the click, you can interrupt the sequence.
I wrote a short ebook breaking down exactly how to do that — the Trigger Before Click framework. It takes under an hour to read and it's free.
It won't fix your strategy. But it might stop you from blowing up the week over one clean loss.
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Mia CarusoTL@miatradez·May 4
@miatradez·May 4anyone struggling to pass evals because of hidden prop firm rules?
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Mia CarusoTL@miatradez·May 3
@miatradez·May 3Why Most Prop Firm Failures Happen Before the First Trade
Most traders who fail prop firm evaluations don't have a strategy problem. They have a matching problem.
Here's what I mean:
A scalper signs up for a firm with a 2-minute minimum hold rule. They get flagged on day three. A swing trader picks a firm with a midnight equity reset and tight daily loss caps — they can't hold anything through a pullback. A news trader joins a firm that blacks out 5 minutes before and after every release.
None of these traders had bad setups. They just picked firms whose rules don't fit how they trade.
Three things to check before you ever apply:
1. Holding time. Most traders don't actually know their average hold duration. If you're a scalper averaging 45-second trades, a firm with a 2-minute minimum hold will disqualify your entire edge. If you're a swing trader, you need a firm that doesn't force daily flat positions.
2. Drawdown structure. Some firms use trailing drawdown (your high-water mark moves against you). Some use static daily limits. Some reset at midnight UTC, others at market close. If your normal losing streak would trigger their drawdown rule, the rule structure is wrong for you — not your trading.
3. News and session rules. Some firms ban trading within a window around high-impact events. Some restrict trading to specific sessions. If your best setups happen during London open or around NFP, check whether the firm even allows that before you pay for the eval.
The fix isn't learning a new strategy. The fix is sorting firms by their rules first, then choosing the one that fits how you already trade.
Three rule checks. Fifteen minutes. Before you apply.
That's the entire framework behind what I put together — a free ebook called Prop Firm Rules That Fit. It walks through exactly how to match your trading style to firm limits before you place your first position.
If you've failed an eval and you're not sure why, start there.