For prop-firm traders
Your strategy works. Your brain doesn’t.
Day nine of the challenge. You’re up 4.1 %, halfway to the target. At 8:30 New York time the inflation number comes out.
Chapter 0 · Day nine
+4.1 % by 8:30. Closed by 8:45.
Your plan said no trades for fifteen minutes after the news. You were back in at 8:34, at bigger size. Look at your own failed challenges: on the last day, were you following your rules?
Chapter 1 · Two speeds
Your hand is faster than your rule.
One part of you reacts to the candle. The other follows your plan, and it needs free attention to win. In a reasoning study, people under mental load failed on the problems where gut and logic disagreed.
Chapter 3 · Loss aversion
Why −1R hurts like −2R.
A review of 150 papers puts it near two: a loss weighs about twice as much as a gain of the same size. You feel that weight when you drag your stop down to “give it room”.
Chapter 6 · The system
Discipline is a system, not a muscle.
23 labs tested “willpower runs out” with over 2,000 people and found an effect close to zero. So you set your rules while you’re calm, and you don’t have to decide anything while you’re not.
Chapter 9 · Your Rewired Profile
Which trader brain are you?
Eight types, ten traps. The free short test takes about four minutes and gives you your type and your loss-aversion number.
What’s inside
103 sources. We checked each one.
Six of the chapters cover the moments you break your rules, each with the research, a prop-firm case and a checklist. “Losses hurt like physical pain” failed our check, so you won’t find it in the book.
E-book · PDF
One failed challenge costs you hundreds. This book costs €19.99.
Ten chapters with nine tools, your numbers and a challenge protocol. No setups, no signals: the book helps you execute the strategy you have.
Read chapters 0 and 1 before you buy.
Chapter 0 is day nine, and why challenges fail. Chapter 1 follows a London-open trade gone wrong, shows what happens in your brain and gives you the first rule.
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Before you buy
What is the Assessment?
A 12–15 minute test that maps your full profile: eight axes, your traps ranked, the styles that tend to suit a profile like yours and the tools for each trap. You get it with the book for €29.99, or for €14.99 if you already own the book. Your code works three times. Go to the Assessment
What do I get?
A PDF e-book of 113 pages: an opening chapter, ten chapters and two appendices, one of them listing every source. Lemon Squeezy emails you the download link right after you pay.
Does the book give me a strategy?
No. It has no setups, no signals and no indicators. It helps you execute the strategy you already have.
Will it get me through my challenge?
The book can’t promise that, and it won’t make you profitable. It gives you rules you set while you’re calm, plus a checklist for each moment where traders break them.
My prop firm has different rules.
Daily limits, loss limits, deadlines and news rules change from firm to firm and over time. The numbers in the book are examples, and Chapter 8 shows you how to work out your own. Check your firm’s rules.
How do I know the research holds up?
We looked up all 103 sources before they went in. Appendix A lists each study with what it measured and, where it matters, how many people took part. The text labels lab and animal studies as such, and our own conclusions sit in a box called “Our read”.
Is this financial advice?
No. Rewired is education on trading psychology. It never tells you what to trade, how much to risk or how big your account should be.
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