Are you addicted to trading?

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People often associate addiction with tangible things like food, cigarettes, alcohol, or drugs. But if we also treat intangible things like gaming, power, or trading as addictions, some may disagree. Why would one become addicted to something that doesn't provide any physical substance? The answer is simple—these things get you hooked on the thrill of an adrenaline rush. Please read this article to better understand gambling addiction. In short, the excitement of a single big winning trade stays in your brain more deeply than the sum of the previous hundred losing trades. Even if this one profit doesn't cover all your previous losses, your brain still craves more adrenaline. That's why people become addicted to trading.

You might think I'm categorizing trading as gambling. Yes, I do think so. I have written several articles that also implicitly touch on this addiction issue.

• Why do traders greedily chase high profits? Because only high profits (even if just from backtesting) can trigger an adrenaline rush.
• As emphasized in this article and this article, no matter how many indicators you use, in the end we are still guessing the future movement of currency pairs, which (to some extent) is similar to gambling. A frequently quoted saying is "the past does not represent the future."

Excerpt from the first article above: