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Trading emotions stem from primitive survival instincts
  • Jared links market stress to the same brain circuitry that once evaluated a rustle in the bushes as potential food or predator.
  • The brain’s survival instinct creates a tension between gathering resources (profit) and avoiding danger (loss).
  • Recognizing this ancestry helps traders reframe fear as a natural signal rather than a flaw.
Jared TendlerTitans Of Tomorrow00:04:07

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Our anim animalistic brain... if I think back to our ancestors, if they heard a noise in the bushes, they could either go towards it and find a meal or it could be a predator and they could die. Jared Tendler
The market can also be analogous to this where you have blowing an account survival instinct to stay away from that versus marginal gain of a single trade. Jared Tendler

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Evolutionary Roots of Trading Emotions

Trading triggers ancient survival circuits—fight‑or‑flight, predator‑prey assessments—that shape our emotional responses to market risk.

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