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Module 1 of 2The gap between knowing and doingLesson 1 of 6

Why rules break under pressure

The conditions that reliably produce a broken rule.

Rules are not broken at random. They break under a small set of conditions: after a loss, after an unusually large win, when a position is close to a stop, and when the trader is watching a market they are not positioned in.

This is useful because a predictable failure can be engineered around. If your rule reliably breaks in the ten minutes after a loss, the fix is a mandatory pause after a loss — a mechanism, not a promise. Discipline built out of mechanisms survives days when resolve does not.

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