This is the only explanation for why so many people do self-defeating things like trade without stop losses, trade with high frequency, cut trades before they really have a chance to play out, not take logical profits when they present themselves, and a whole host of other trading mistakes. At any given time in the market, you really only have several options in front of you; enter a trade, not enter a trade, ‘set and forget’ your trade after its live, or ‘mess’ around with your trade’s parameters (target, stop loss, adding positions, etc. That correlation is, the more stupid trades you take, the longer it will take you to trade successfully, and if you continue to make stupid trades at increasing rates, you will eventually blow out your trading account.