1 · Lessons & guides
Short, honest psychology lessons
Bite-sized guides on discipline, emotional control, tilt, revenge trading, boredom trades, overconfidence and more – written from a trader’s perspective.
Browse guidesOBT's Mind Lab · oldbold.trade
Meet Old Bold Trader, your trading mind mentor.
Old Bold Trader (OBT) is not a signal service. OBT is a voice in your corner that cares about one thing: whether you can actually follow your own rules when the market turns noisy, slow, or cruel.
OBT teaches the inner game of trading: psychology, discipline, routines, and mental tools –
so you stop blowing up good systems with bad decisions.
What you get here
What OBT gives you inside the Mind Lab.
OBT helps you become a trader who can execute a plan without being hijacked by fear, boredom or ego. You’ll find four main things:
2 · Tools & templates
Journals, checklists, reset protocols
Printable and digital tools that structure your session: pre-trade checklists, the OBT Trading Journal, and post-loss reset scripts that protect your account.
See tools3 · Stories & case studies
Real mistakes, dissected
Case studies from real days: how a good month died in one session, how boredom leads to damage, how identity shifts changed results – with psychological analysis.
Read stories4 · Deep work
Courses, community & live sessions
Longer-form work for traders who want to go deeper with OBT: a structured 5 Pillars course, a small accountability community, and group sessions focused on the mental side.
Lab roadmapThe 5 Pillars of OBT
The framework OBT uses to train traders.
Every guide, tool and story in the Mind Lab connects back to these five pillars. This is how OBT thinks about the trader behind the trades.
Pillar I
Mental discipline & emotional control
Staying functional when your heart rate jumps. Routines and reset protocols that keep your head clear during entries, exits and losing streaks.
Pillar II
Decision quality & bias awareness
Seeing through confirmation bias, FOMO, anchoring and sunk cost. Naming your patterns so they stop quietly steering your trades.
Pillar III
Risk identity & money relationship
You don’t trade numbers, you trade feelings about numbers. Understanding how you actually relate to risk, losses and gains.
Pillar IV
Process, routine & habit engineering
Turning good behavior into default behavior: checklists, journals and session scripts that make discipline automatic instead of heroic.
Pillar V
Identity, confidence & long-term mindset
Seeing yourself as a multi-year project, not a one-week challenge. Letting your identity as a trader grow beyond single days, weeks or trades.
Tools from the Lab
The concrete side of trading psychology.
The Mind Lab turns concepts into things you can actually use during your trading session.
OBT Trading Journal
A lean, strict template that tracks not only entries and exits,
but your emotional state and rule-following on every trade.
Pre-trade checklist
A short, non-negotiable checklist that stops boredom and FOMO trades
before they ever hit the chart.
Post-loss reset protocol
A step-by-step reset for the minutes after a bad trade or series:
breathe, review, limit, pause – instead of tilt and revenge.
Some tools are free downloads on oldbold.trade; others are part of deeper paid packs for traders who want more structure.
Who is Old Bold Trader?
The persona behind the Mind Lab.
You don’t need a name. You need a point of view, a method, and someone willing to talk about the ugly parts.
OBT is a trader who got tired of watching people self-destruct.
Old Bold Trader is the public face of an active day trader who has seen most psychological mistakes personally – and prefers to talk honestly about them instead of pretending to be a perfect machine.
OBT is not your guru, not your broker, and not your therapist. OBT is a trading mind mentor with one obsession: helping you build the discipline, awareness and routines you need so that whatever strategy you choose has a fair chance to survive in the real market.
The Mind Lab exists so these ideas don’t stay in a private journal. They turn into guides, tools and experiments you can use yourself.
Follow OBT's experiments in public.
The Mind Lab is where things are organized. Social is where things are loud: short psychology hits, live session reflections, and experiments in real time.