MasterTrading Podcast · Episode 1
The Neuroscience Behind Revenge Trading
16:27 · 15 January 2026
A short podcast on what's actually happening in the brain when you place that second trade you knew you shouldn't. Why the urge feels uncontrollable, and what reaches it.
Revenge trading isn’t a discipline failure. It’s a specific neural sequence, amygdala activation, prefrontal-cortex dimming, conditioned response firing before conscious decision, that happens in seconds and overrides everything you know about your strategy.
This 15-minute episode walks through the sequence, the research describing each stage, and the reason most “manage your emotions” advice fails to reach the level where the urge actually lives. Plain language. Specific mechanisms. The case for working on the conditioned response, not the rational story about it.
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