English | 2025 | ISBN: 9798231056958 | 175 pages | EPUB (True) | 0.71 MB
You saw the setup. You entered the trade. The market moved in your direction. And you still lost money.
It wasn't the chart. It wasn't the entry. It wasn't the trade idea. It was you.
This book is about that part of trading no one wants to talk about-the part where you're technically right, but your mind takes you out of the game. The part where your strategy works, but you sabotage it because fear whispered louder than reason. The part where your stop was smart but your timing wasn't. The Psychology of the Chart doesn't teach you to find patterns. It teaches you to survive them.
Gavin Royce doesn't hand you a set of rules. He hands you a mirror. Because the real edge in trading isn't the system. It's how long you can stick to it when everything inside you is begging to break it. This book exposes the brutal truth most traders learn too late: success has less to do with your analysis and more to do with your behavior once the trade is live.
The market doesn't reward intelligence. It rewards execution. It punishes hesitation, punishes overconfidence, and punishes those who confuse knowing with doing. You don't need more signals-you need less noise. Less internal noise. That moment between a chart moving and a decision being made is where 90% of traders fail. Not because they can't read a chart-but because they misread themselves.
This book walks straight into the chaos between your plan and your performance. It's where discipline cracks, where impulse wins, where traders bail early or cling too long. Royce doesn't offer comfort. He offers clarity. Every chapter dissects the real psychological battles that unfold during live trades: the fear of giving back gains, the panic of drawdown, the pressure to chase what you missed. You'll recognize yourself in every page-and that's the point.
You will gain
• The tools to separate your emotional reaction from your market strategy
• A deep understanding of the most common psychological traps that destroy profitability
• Frameworks for decision-making under pressure without second-guessing your strategy
• A blueprint to build internal rules that protect you from your worst impulses
• Insight into how to process losses so they don't multiply psychologically
• A system for post-trade analysis that exposes hidden emotional patterns
Every trader walks into the market with an edge they think they understand. Most never realize that edge disappears the moment their discipline fails. This book strips down the false beliefs that plague both new and experienced traders: the illusion that more knowledge equals more profit, the myth that confidence equals control, and the lie that discipline is automatic.
Royce writes with the precision of someone who's blown accounts, questioned his edge, and rebuilt from the psychological wreckage of overtrading and revenge trades. He doesn't preach. He documents. What you'll find in these pages is brutally honest insight from the trenches-not the sanitized version of trading that gets posted online.
The Psychology of the Chart delivers a system of internal mastery. You won't find setups or indicators here. You'll find the mental frameworks traders need to endure drawdowns, hold through noise, and execute consistently without emotional distortion. It's about finally understanding why being right doesn't matter-unless you can hold on long enough to realize it.
Readers will leave this book with a different kind of confidence-not the kind that comes from a winning streak, but the kind that comes from knowing they've trained the part of themselves that loses trades they should win. You will begin to see that trading isn't a battle with the market. It's a battle with yourself. And it's one you can finally start winning.
The Psychology Of The Chart : Why Most Traders Lose Even When They're Right
