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Salience in Trading
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Salience in Trading

Salience in trading makes the loudest move feel most important. Learn why traders confuse urgency with relevance and how to protect decision quality.

A lot of trading mistakes do not begin with obvious fear or greed. They begin when one move, one candle, or one position becomes emotionally louder than everything else on the screen.

That is salience.

Salience makes the vivid thing feel like the important thing. It makes urgency feel like relevance. And once that happens, traders start reacting to what g…

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