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Psychological impact of the Green vs Red on charts - Options Day Trading
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Hey all!

For some really stupid reason, I'm far more comfortable buying puts than calls. Day trading is something that I've become pretty skilled at using just price action, no indicators or anything, but regardless of market trend I find myself swinging puts like 95% of the time.

I'm profitable, but I know that by having an innate preference for bearishness (which is contrary to market moves more often than not) I'm essentially screwing myself and severely limiting my profit potential as well as honestly just making my life much harder.

I have an understanding that the human mind can make decisions based on elements of color, and I feel that the "harshness" of the red candle may be part of my dilemma.

My question is:

Has anybody tried changing the colors on the chart to be something other than green/red? If so, which colors did you use and how did it go?

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