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"Your chat is not neutral. It's contagion" (PART 2)
But here's what actually happens in those 20 minutes of "just monitoring."
In 2014, researchers at Facebook and Cornell ran an experiment on 689,000 users. They manipulated what people saw in their feeds — reducing either positive or negative posts. Result: people who saw fewer positive posts wrote more negative posts themselves. People who saw fewer negative posts wrote more positive ones. Emotional contagion — through a screen, with no face-to-face contact, no conversation. Just reading.
A Harvard Business School working paper on digital emotion contagion found that online environments amplify emotional spread through speed, algorithmic sorting, and group dynamics. The emotional signal gets concentrated and accelerated compared to offline settings.
Now apply this to a trading chat during a crash.
Dozens of messages per minute. "It's over." "Told you so." "Liquidated." Screenshot of losses. Someone panic-selling. Someone else calling for $50k. The information density is near zero. The emotional density is extreme.
You think you're gathering information. But cognitively, you're absorbing emotional state. And unlike a news feed, trading chats during volatility are almost pure emotion — fear, anger, euphoria, despair — with very little actionable signal.
It's voluntary exposure to concentrated emotional contagion, at the exact moment your prefrontal cortex is already weakened by stress (see Part 1).
You wouldn't take a sedative before executing a complex trading plan. But reading a panicking chat during a crash may have a comparable effect on your decision quality.
One of the most direct levers you have for protecting your trading plan isn't a new indicator or a better entry. It's closing the chat.
Not forever. Not because communities are bad. But during the 30-60 minute window of peak volatility — when your brain is most vulnerable and the chat is most toxic — silence is edge.
Have you ever noticed your decision changing AFTER reading a chat during a move? Or do you think chats don't affect you?
#TradingPsychology #EmotionalContagion #Riskassetsmarketshock $BTC
Educational content. Not financial advice. DYOR.
👉 Part 1: Why your brain betrays your plan during a crash? (published)
👉 Part 3: Coming soon
👉 Part 4: Coming soon
In 2014, researchers at Facebook and Cornell ran an experiment on 689,000 users. They manipulated what people saw in their feeds — reducing either positive or negative posts. Result: people who saw fewer positive posts wrote more negative posts themselves. People who saw fewer negative posts wrote more positive ones. Emotional contagion — through a screen, with no face-to-face contact, no conversation. Just reading.
A Harvard Business School working paper on digital emotion contagion found that online environments amplify emotional spread through speed, algorithmic sorting, and group dynamics. The emotional signal gets concentrated and accelerated compared to offline settings.
Now apply this to a trading chat during a crash.
Dozens of messages per minute. "It's over." "Told you so." "Liquidated." Screenshot of losses. Someone panic-selling. Someone else calling for $50k. The information density is near zero. The emotional density is extreme.
You think you're gathering information. But cognitively, you're absorbing emotional state. And unlike a news feed, trading chats during volatility are almost pure emotion — fear, anger, euphoria, despair — with very little actionable signal.
It's voluntary exposure to concentrated emotional contagion, at the exact moment your prefrontal cortex is already weakened by stress (see Part 1).
You wouldn't take a sedative before executing a complex trading plan. But reading a panicking chat during a crash may have a comparable effect on your decision quality.
One of the most direct levers you have for protecting your trading plan isn't a new indicator or a better entry. It's closing the chat.
Not forever. Not because communities are bad. But during the 30-60 minute window of peak volatility — when your brain is most vulnerable and the chat is most toxic — silence is edge.
Have you ever noticed your decision changing AFTER reading a chat during a move? Or do you think chats don't affect you?
#TradingPsychology #EmotionalContagion #Riskassetsmarketshock $BTC
Educational content. Not financial advice. DYOR.
👉 Part 1: Why your brain betrays your plan during a crash? (published)
👉 Part 3: Coming soon
👉 Part 4: Coming soon
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