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Trading guides
Behavioral finance, risk management, and methodology for traders. The decisions that shape outcomes, the math that measures them, and the evidence Kyra waits for before calling a pattern.
How emotions affect trading performance
The umbrella view. Four well-mapped behavioral mechanisms (loss aversion, disposition effect, overconfidence, arousal narrowing), the fingerprint each leaves in a trade log, and the gap between aggregate research and your own data.
5 academic citations · ~10 min readHow to stop revenge trading
A sequence, not a personality trait. The behavioral mechanism behind the make-it-back trap, the fingerprint of the post-loss re-entry in your trade log, and three structural checks that interrupt the cycle without relying on willpower.
3 citations · ~9 min readFOMO trading psychology
Chase entries are a structural sequence driven by regret aversion and informational cascades. The fingerprint in your trade log, three behavioral mechanisms behind the click, and structural defenses that don't rely on willpower.
3 citations · ~9 min readThe drawdown recovery math
A 10% loss needs 11% to recover. A 50% loss needs 100%. A 90% loss needs 900%. The math is multiplicative, not additive — and the four levers that bound how deep a drawdown actually goes are all set before the trade.
1 citation · ~8 min readHow many trades before patterns emerge?
Pattern detection is bounded by sample size. See why early signals are noisy, when inference sharpens, and what a trader can credibly act on at each stage.
Sample sizes · Confidence tiersReading the evidence is the easy part.
Seeing it in your own trades is the harder part. Kyra Trading is a private trading journal that detects behavioral patterns in your own trade history and surfaces the ones that are costing you money. Every pattern shows its sample size and a confidence range so you know how confident the signal is. On-device, no account, no servers.
