How a planned loss turns into an emptied account in four steps, and the two written rules that interrupt the sequence.
Step one: you take a loss you planned for. Fine. Step two: you immediately re-enter to get it back, bigger, with no new reason. Step three: that one loses too, and now it is personal. Step four: you trade three to five times your normal size. This is the trade that empties the account. Every trader who has blown up can point to the day this happened; most can point to the minute.
Tilt is a physiological state, not a character flaw. Heart rate up, attention narrowed, time horizon collapsed to the next candle. In that state you cannot evaluate a rule; you can only follow one that was already written. So the rules must exist before the loss, in plain words, somewhere you will see them.
After two consecutive losses, no new trades for twenty-four hours. Not "unless the setup is great". The great setup that appears right after two losses is the one your tilt invented. Twenty-four hours resets the chemistry; the market will still be there.
Set a number, about three planned losses, and when you reach it, close the platform. Not just the position: the platform. The dangerous trades happen while "just watching". If you need to keep clicking, click on a paper account; the itch usually dies in twenty minutes once nothing is at stake, and the sim journal will later show you what the extra trades would have cost.