Post-Win Overtrade: The ‘House Money’ Trap

🎰 The Pattern

After a win, your brain feels “safe.” That money feels like “free money” (the house’s money), so you’re willing to risk it immediately on tomorrow’s setup.

This connects directly to your “eating leftovers” habit—leaving capital idle feels like “wasting” it, like throwing away food. You feel compelled to make that money “work” immediately.

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⚡ Unwiring Protocol: Post-Win Overtrade

The Core Reframing: “Cash is a Position”

You need to change your definition of “wasting.”

Old Thought:
“If my money isn’t in a trade, it’s doing nothing. That is waste.”

New Muscle Memory:
“Cash is a valid position. It is a position with 0 Delta, 0 Theta, and 0 Risk.”

When you sit in cash overnight, you’re not “doing nothing.” You’re actively holding a position that is immune to overnight crashes.

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🧠 Key Insight

The compulsion to immediately redeploy winning capital is your brain misidentifying safety as waste.

Cash is protection, not idleness.

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Next Nugget: Explore how Delta measures your progress toward the strike price in real-time.