Emotional Trading and Psychological Stress: How Desperation and Impatience Increase Cognitive and Behavioral Risk
Emotional trading is a behavioral pattern in which financial decisions are driven less by explicit analysis and more by affective states such as fear, urgency, anger, or desperation. Although trading is not a medical diagnosis, the underlying processes map closely onto well-characterized mechanisms in behavioral psychology and clinical mental health: stress responses, impaired executive function,… Read More »