MYSTIC REGIME
A loss is a fact. What follows is a choice — usually made badly.
Research on individual investors keeps finding the same thing: the extra damage after a loss comes from behaviour, not from missing information. This page is about that gap — and about the smallest intervention the evidence supports: a pause, and a rule made before the moment.
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Losses weigh about 2×
Equal-sized gains and losses do not feel equal. The asymmetry pushes toward action exactly when action is expensive.
02
Winners get sold first
The disposition effect is measured across markets: positions that are up get sold, positions that are down get held — regardless of plan.
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The worst trades cluster
Impulse does not arrive randomly. It arrives after losses, when attention narrows and the screen speeds up.
What we actually offer
- A two-minute state check-in. Three closed questions about what just happened and what you feel like doing. No amounts, no free text, no diagnosis. Open the reset →
- One rule, made in advance. A commitment in your own words — “I will not open a new position today” — that settles tomorrow with a two-tap answer.
- A record that is yours. Not a P&L ledger: a record of which days you kept your own rule and how the days felt. It gets more valuable the longer it gets, and nobody can generate it for you.
What we do not offer
- No market calls, no price levels, no “buy the dip”, no direction of any kind.
- No recovery plan. Nothing here promises to get anything back.
- No broker connection and no position data — we never see your account, by design.
- No accuracy claims. This product describes your state, never the market's next move.
The evidence, in full
If you want the actual studies — including the parts that are disputed — they are summed up honestly, with sample sizes and caveats, on our disposition effect page. We do not claim this product is validated by that research; we claim the pause it builds is the one step the research points at.
If today went badly, start with the state — not the chart.
For entertainment purposes only. Not financial advice.