Revenge trading,
in their own words.
Different countries, different markets, different lives. The same loop, and the same thing that finally broke it. These are the stories behind the pattern.
About these stories. Every story here is fictional and composite. Each one is built from the patterns thousands of traders describe in forums, messages and research, but none describes a specific, identifiable person, and none is a verified customer review. The behaviour is real and common. The characters are illustrations of it.
Philippines
XAUUSD (gold)Marco, 34
New father replacing lost night-shift income
A new dad trading gold between night feeds, chasing back an Asian-session loss at the London open until it nearly took the money the baby needed.
Read the storyUnited Kingdom
Forex, prop firm evaluationJordan, 26
Fourth challenge reset after telling everyone he went full-time
On his fourth prop firm reset, passing phase one and tilting away phase two near the target, trapped by sunk fees and everyone he had told.
Read the storyUnited States
Index CFDs (NAS100)Ashley, 41
Night-shift ER nurse scalping after 12-hour shifts
An ER nurse micro-scalping indices at 3am after her shift, already wired on adrenaline, trying to trade her way out of 12-hour nights.
Read the storySouth Africa
ForexThabo, 29
Chasing a paid signal group’s winning screenshots
Paying for a signals group and revenge trading whenever the group was green and he was red, driven by everyone else’s flexed screenshots.
Read the storyJapan
Forex (USDJPY)Kenji, 45
A hidden account and a loss he had been about to recover for months
A salaryman trading a secret account at night, telling himself for eight months he was about to make it back, until the secret was bigger than the loss.
Read the storyAustralia
Crypto and gold CFDsEmma, 31
Trapped by the financial-freedom brand she built online
She sold the freedom dream on her own small account, then revenge traded high-leverage crypto to keep the story alive after every drawdown.
Read the storyMexico
US index CFDsDiego, 27
Quietly dipping into the wedding fund to recover losses
Engaged and saving for a wedding, revenge trading the pre-market after a stop, then quietly topping the account back up from the fund.
Read the storyCanada
Index and forex CFDsGrace, 52
Trading her severance with no salary to replace it
An early retiree trading her severance, revenge trading to make back a bad week, with no paycheck coming to refill the account.
Read the storyNigeria
Synthetic indices (MT5)Yusuf, 24
A market that never closes and a peer group that never fails
Trading synthetic indices that run 24/7 with no forced close, in a circle where trading was the only acceptable way up.
Read the storyBrazil
Index and forex CFDsLucas, 38
Quit a stable job on a hot streak, now giving it back
He quit a steady job on a three-month hot streak, then started handing the profits back, unable to go tell his old boss he was wrong.
Read the storyUnited States
Forex, funded prop accountRyan, 30
Passed the evaluation twice, blew both funded accounts in a week
He passed the challenge twice and blew both funded accounts within a week, undone by the gap between evaluation nerves and real-money nerves.
Read the storyUnited Arab Emirates
XAUUSD (gold)Aisha, 36
High income made losses feel affordable until they were not
A well-paid professional whose salary made every loss feel recoverable, so the revenge trading hid in plain sight until the numbers grew.
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