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What "Tilt" Actually Means When You're Trading
"Tilt" comes from poker: a player who's stopped making decisions based on the cards and started making them based on frustration. In trading it looks the same — the chart hasn't changed, but you have, and every trade from here reads that shift back at you.
Tilt isn't a bad trade — it's a state
One loss isn't tilt. Tilt is what happens to the next three decisions after it: faster entries, bigger size, less time spent on the setup, more time spent on the account balance. The trade itself might look reasonable in isolation. It's the shift in how you're arriving at trades that gives it away.
What it looks like in an actual account
Three markers show up together more often than not: overtrading (more entries per hour than your baseline), tightening loop between losses and the next entry, and losing streaks that run longer than your historical average because each trade in the streak is worse-sized than the last. Any one of these alone might be nothing. Together, across your own history, they're tilt.
Why you can't self-diagnose it live
This is the same problem revenge trading has — tilt narrates itself as focus, not as a spiral. You don't feel erratic while it's happening. You feel locked in. The only reliable way to catch it is to compare the current session against your own actual pattern history, not against how the current session feels from inside it.
How Crest's Tilt Score works
Crest's Tilt Score isn't a fixed threshold that treats every trader identically. It's a live score built from your own history — your overtrading frequency, your revenge timing, how deep your losing streaks actually run compared to your baseline. When it rises, Crest tells you during the session, not in a report you read the next morning when the account is already smaller.