You move the stop.
You had a clear exit. Then the trade went against you, and the reason to stay suddenly sounded convincing.
A BOOK BY ERIC ALGARÍN
Trade Like You
Don't Give a Shit
You know your rules.
Now learn why you break them.
Build a trading process that puts preparation before pressure. Care about the decisions. Stop chasing the feeling.
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PREPARE BEFORE THE PRESSURE.
PUT YOUR PROCESS FIRST.
17 CHAPTERSPRACTICAL EXERCISESGUIDED TEMPLATES
THE MOMENT THE PLAN DISAPPEARS
Sound Familiar?
You need to win it back.
The next trade becomes a way to erase the last loss instead of a decision that stands on its own.
You abandon your size.
A streak of winners makes your usual limits feel unnecessarily cautious.
You exit to feel better.
Watching the open profit change feels harder than following the plan.
You repeat the pattern.
After the session, the mistake looks obvious. In the moment, you found a way to justify it.
You promise tomorrow.
You tell yourself you’ll be more disciplined. But what will you actually do differently?
Knowing the pattern is a start. Preparing your response is the work.
CHANGE WHAT HAPPENS BEFORE THE TRADE
Don’t Leave Your Plan
To Your Mood.
You can understand trading psychology and still struggle to act on that knowledge when money is at risk. This book brings the work back to decisions you can write down, exposure you can calculate, and behavior you can review. The goal is a process you can follow when the familiar impulse shows up.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
From Reaction
To a Written Process
Connect emotional patterns with position sizing, pre-commitment, expectancy, and honest review.
01Recognize the Signals
Notice your warning signs.
Explore fear, ego, hope, and the urges that pull you away from your plan. Identify the rationalizations that precede a rule break, name your personal warning signal, and connect it to a specific response.
02Decide Earlier
Make the hard decisions before the pressure.
Work through position sizing and planned risk. Define entry, invalidation, and exit conditions. Bring those decisions together in a written trading rulebook.
03Understand the Numbers
Put individual outcomes in context.
Work through expectancy examples, examine losing streaks and their assumptions, and separate a favorable outcome from a sound decision.
04Review Your Decisions
Look at what you actually did.
Record emotional triggers and rule deviations. Review winners as carefully as losers, and turn observations into practical changes to evaluate.
PUT THE READING TO WORK
Make the Pages
Part of Your Process
Your Trading Rulebook
Instructions, a completed example, and blank templates to turn the book’s ideas into your own written plan.
Your Trade Review
A structured place to record your setup, decisions, emotional triggers, and whether you followed your rules.
Your Weekly Review
Bring your records together, investigate patterns, and choose a specific improvement to work on.
BEFORE YOU PICK IT UP
Is This Book
For You?
For traders who recognize the gap between knowing a rule and following it—and are willing to examine their own decisions. Work through the exercises, keep records, and treat the templates as working documents.
Does “don’t give a shit” mean being careless?
The focus is on caring about your decisions and your process, while examining the fear, ego, and hope that can pull you away from your rules. Risk and preparation remain central.
Are the templates explained?
The book includes instructions, completed examples, and blank templates for putting the ideas into practice through your trading rulebook and review process.
Will this book give me a trading strategy?
The focus is psychology, risk, preparation, and execution. It helps you examine how you follow your rules; it is not a signal service or a promise of trading results.
Where can I buy the book?
The book is available on Amazon. View current pricing and available formats ↗
YOUR NEXT STEP
Put Your Process
Before Your Impulse.
Trade Like You Don't Give a Shit
By Eric Algarín.