Example For Stocks... (Please Consider Reading some articles about Diversification being the only free lunch in trading) 1. I use abundant diversification (15-30+ or more) with a number of stocks in play at the same time so that usually, of course not always, I have some stocks profitable (many times a couple strongly profitable) and THIS makes it a lot easier to QUICKLY stop OUT losing stocks TO PROTECT THE PROFITS ON MY WINNING STOCKS. 2. So I stop out any losing stocks for a positive reason and feel good about it and myself. (Specifically, I definitely sell the stocks that are down on high relative volume - OR if down on low relative volume I usually will minor Dollar Cost Average into them with minor buy scales OR just watch without DCA scaling for a decision to be made later in the day to hold em' or exit em.) 3. The psychology here is that you are taking a positive action (taking a loss quickly when alerted to a bad stock) so as to protect your profits WHICH GIVES YOU THE EMOTIONAL INNER SUPPORT TO LET PROFITABLE POSITIONS RUN. This way you avoid Fat Tailed Losses... (Devastating losses where you pound your head against the wall and ask yourself. "Mary Anne, why the Frak did you do that"
All the psychological babble in the world won't help you if your trading market understanding is flawed and you're destined to gambling doom, random guessing and hoping and praying. Losing streaks should ideally be nonexistent in a trader's approach. If you have constant or vast losing streaks then something is fundamentally wrong in your mind market process perspective
First of all, go on a holiday if you can, or at least take a break from trading for a week or two to clear up your head. Then, identify why you were losing (your journal should tell you that), and start working on those obstacles that keep you from trading successfully. That will give you a list of goals to focus on for the next few weeks / months. Protect your financial and ‘psychological’ capital by significantly reducing position size until you get consistent traction. (That’s providing that you have a back tested strategy with positive expectancy, if not, then stop trading until you do) Depending on how / what you trade, switching to higher timeframes helps as they’re easier to trade.
Drawdown is inevitable , doesn't change much with exception of changes in the government, like tariffs caused insane volatility. But under normal price action, drawdowns are cost of playing the game.