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Lab · October 2026

Test: what is sabotaging your trading?

36 statements and 3 minutes to find your top three self-sabotage patterns (revenge trading, moving the stop, FOMO, euphoria…) and what to do about each one. Free, no sign-up.

36 statements and 3 minutes: the test tells you your top three self-sabotage patterns, out of the twelve most common, and what to do about each one.

Think only about the last 30 days of trading. If you hesitate between two answers, pick the higher one: almost all of us see ourselves better than we are. It's not a diagnosis, it's a mirror. Your answers never leave your browser.

1. After a loss that feels unfair, I enter another trade within five minutes.

2. After two or more losses in a row, I have increased the size of my next trade.

3. I have moved my stop further away as price got close to it.

4. I have closed a winning trade before its target for fear it would turn around.

5. I have entered the market because I had been doing nothing for a long time.

6. I have entered late, chasing a move that had already started without me.

7. After a bad streak, I have let clear setups from my plan go by out of fear.

8. After a good streak, I have increased my size without my plan saying so.

9. I have traded after sleeping badly, while ill or very tired.

10. I have changed strategy, indicator or trading hours after fewer than 30 trades.

11. Close to the evaluation target, I have traded bigger or more often to finish sooner.

12. I have stopped logging trades in my journal, especially the bad ones.

13. I have traded to "win back what I lost" rather than because I saw a setup from my plan.

14. I have thought "one good, bigger trade and I'll win it all back".

15. I have removed my stop "just for a moment" to give the trade room.

16. My average win is smaller than my average loss, even though my plan says the opposite.

17. I have taken trades I couldn't explain with my written plan.

18. I have bought or sold at market because "it was getting away".

19. I have cut my size so much, or waited so long, that I was no longer following my strategy.

20. On a good day I have kept trading "because I'm on a roll".

21. I have traded right after an argument or something upsetting outside trading.

22. I have started trading something I had just seen in a video without testing it first.

23. I have bought a new evaluation on the same day I blew the previous one.

24. I have hidden from my partner, family or friends how much I have lost.

25. I have got angry at the market, the platform or myself while I had an open position.

26. I have traded more contracts on a given day than my plan allows.

27. Some of my losses have been much bigger than I planned when I entered.

28. After closing in profit, price reached my target and it hurt more than a loss.

29. I trade more on quiet days than on days with good opportunities.

30. Seeing other traders win (on social media, groups or chats) has pushed me to trade.

31. I have thought about quitting trading after just a few bad days.

32. After winning, I have broken one of my rules because "today I see everything clearly".

33. I have traded with alcohol or something else that changed my mood in my system.

34. I couldn't tell you the win rate and average win of my current strategy.

35. I have picked a firm or account thinking "let's see if I get lucky this time".

36. I have used money I needed for something else (or borrowed money) to trade or buy evaluations.

Put it where you can see it. Write your three patterns and their rule on a sticky note next to your screen, or put them on the wall with our trading room posters. And measure what each mistake costs you with the free simulator.

Where this test comes from

The twelve patterns are the behavioural mistakes that come up most often in new traders, and in many experienced ones. Research on real traders has measured them: holding losers and cutting winners (the disposition effect), overtrading out of overconfidence, or taking more risk in the afternoon after a losing morning. We built it for our upcoming book on trading psychology.

Educational content based on our own experience. Not investment advice. Firm rules change: check them on each firm's website. This article contains no affiliate links.