Before You Make The Trade: The Struggle in the Mind, Before, During and After the Trade (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798990884120)

What happens in your mind before you make a trade may be just as important as what happens in the market afterward.

Before You Make the Trade explores the emotional and psychological side of stock trading through the principles of the DIPAE Method. Written for new and developing traders, the book focuses on the decisions made before, during, and after a trade-and on the fear, greed, impatience, overconfidence, FOMO, regret, and doubt that can influence them.

Rather than treating risk management and emotional control as separate subjects, the book shows how they work together. Readers learn how preparation, position size, stop-loss planning, reward-to-risk analysis, technical evaluation, and a clear trading process can reduce emotional pressure and improve decision-making.

The book also examines common trading biases, the danger of information overload, the temptation to chase price, the difficulty of accepting losses, and the emotional challenge of watching a position approach resistance or move against expectations.

Through practical examples, trading scenarios, checklists, and the DIPAE approach to discipline, patience, risk management, and emotional control, readers are encouraged to slow down, examine the opportunity, understand the risk, and let the numbers-not emotions-guide the decision.

The goal is not to eliminate emotion or risk. It is to recognize them, measure them, and control their influence before they control the trade.