r/indiaoptionstrading

One thing I noticed over the years:
A lot of traders can handle losses.
What really affects them is seeing profit vanish.
You’re up nicely.
Everything is fine.
Then market pulls back.
And suddenly:
you exit early
tighten stops too much
keep checking P&L
stop following the original plan
Not because the trade became bad.
Because the mind already started treating that profit as “owned”.
That shift changes behaviour fast.
Took me years to recognise how much open profit affects decision making.

You’d think experience makes trading easier.

In some ways it does.

But it also makes you more aware of risk.

Earlier:
you only saw opportunity.

Now:
you also see what can go wrong.

That changes behaviour quietly.

Sometimes experienced traders don’t hesitate because they lack conviction.

They hesitate because they’ve seen how fast markets can humble confidence.

Took me years to understand that fear and maturity can sometimes look very similar.

Question for you:
has experience made you calmer… or more cautious?

Guys, yesterday i was on call with my friend. he used to trade with me as a retail seller but now he work in a firm in Maharashtra and he is earning good and i asked him his job profile he replied he trade based on ARBITRAGE of options like put call parity, i qn is that how do these guy even make money and under what scenerios they make money.
Like i know they trade based on the price difference between the PUT and CALL option of At-The-Money. but in most of the cases that's very less.