Thought Moment

I lost $12,000 in twenty minutes. Not to the market. To 3:47 a.m. I moved my stop 3 dollars. Told myself three dollars is noise. At 3:47 a.m. that sounded like logic. Then I found the pattern: 16 moved stops over 400 trades. Every single one between midnight and 5 a.m. Singapore time. I didn't have a discipline problem. I had a clock problem. So I stopped fixing the rule and fixed the hours. No order changes after 11 p.m. Two years. Zero moved stops. The $12,000 bought me one sentence: know which version of you is at the desk.