Hey everybody. This is Ryan Mallory with shareplanner.com swing trading in the stock market.

In today's episode, we're going to talk about how emotional trading destroys one's portfolio.

And let's be honest. When it comes to emotional trading, it's self-inflicted.

We are emotional traders when we have something that is out of alignment, out of sync with how we should be trading.

That's oftentimes with position sizes that can be with the types of stocks that we're trading,

the volatility that we can't emotionally control ourselves with, the beta of the stocks.

I mean, we have to be careful in what we're trading because from a psychological standpoint,

it can be very, very destructive and ultimately destructive towards our finances as well.

Today's episode comes from a guy.

I'm going to call him George Costanza.

That's the long name, the short name, just George.

Obviously, after the Seinfeld character, because it was a very emotional

character in that show. I mean, he was pretty much the central emotional character in that

entire TV series. So George writes, Dear Ryan, I have lost a lot of money trying to trade

terrible assets. I feel quite numb to it now when the trade doesn't go in my

favor and cut my losses like you preach. I find myself currently writing MSTR since the beginning

of this year. We're going back to 2024. I let it run because it looked incredibly bullish. I'm used to large volatility, but I'm not used to winning.

The higher it goes, the more I questioned my life, almost like I did when I first started

and was holding on to losers.

Is there a way I can still ride the wave without being so emotional?

I never expected myself to not be able to win due to emotion.

But if I don't handle it, I'm going to

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