The 11-Minute Blow-Up: How a Right Trade Lost $14,800

He was up 1.2R. The read was right, the entry was clean, the plan was working. Eleven minutes later he gave back $14,800.

The trade was right. The size was the weapon — a 3x add on an "obvious" setup, a normal pullback that wasn't normal at that size, and a refusal to cut. When he reviewed it later, the analysis checked out, so his brain filed it under bad luck. A loss filed under bad luck never gets fixed.

This is a Decision Quality Teardown: a real, anonymized trade, scored, with the math.

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