What is revenge trading?
Taking a position to win back a loss rather than because the setup is there.
Taking a position to win back a loss rather than because the setup is there.
Revenge trading, explained
It shows up minutes after a losing close: a bigger size, a worse entry, a stop placed where it is convenient rather than where it belongs. The goal has quietly stopped being a good trade and become an even balance by the end of the day.
A worked example
Down $400 at 10:15. By 10:22 you are in a name you had not looked at that morning, at twice your usual size, with nothing written down.
Where revenge trading shows up in a journal
A trading journal is where this stops being a definition and becomes your own number. sizeforzero computes it from the trades you import or log, alongside the rest of your analytics vocabulary, and every figure in the app carries an (i) that explains it in the same plain English you just read.