$BEAT On the day I truly broke down,
it wasn't because I lost a lot,
but because I realized I was trading with a vengeful mindset.
At that moment, I understood that this was no longer trading,
but gambling my account and my own failures.
$NIGHT During that time, the market was very grueling,
consolidating and oscillating, with strategies failing one by one.
I was like a gambler blinded by losses,
每次刚止损，就立刻进下一单。
I wasn't looking for opportunities,
I just wanted to “immediately make back the losses.”
Later I learned,
psychology calls this “loss aversion” —
The pain of losing is twice the pleasure of winning.
So you will unconsciously,
use greater risks to fill a pit.
Livermore repeatedly said in his later years:
“My greatest enemy is not the market, but myself.”
This is not just a summary, but more like a last word.
Zhuangzi told a story:
Before the craftsman Ziqing made musical instruments, he needed to fast for seven days,
“forgetting himself” before he could create masterpieces.
The point is simple:
When the mind is chaotic, the hands will be chaotic.
Later, once after continuous losses,
for the first time I actively closed the software,
choosing to “do nothing” amidst market fluctuations.
That feeling was uncomfortable, very empty,
but it was also that time
that I truly stood outside the market,
seeing clearly my own predicament in the game.
I hastily wrote down a few notes,
later they repeatedly held me back:
When you want to “immediately make back,” stop. That’s not an opportunity, it’s emotional imbalance.
After consecutive losses, the best thing to do is not to change strategies, but to close the software and leave the screen.
Trading is the art of waiting. Experts win in patience, lose in frequency.
You can't control the ups and downs, but you can control “not participating.” Sometimes, exiting is the best operation.
These are not profound methods,
just a survivor,
who remembers the signposts
each time retreating back from the edge of the cliff.
Finally, I ask you:
Have you ever made the most irrational trade after consecutive losses?
At the moment you pressed the confirm button,
what were you really thinking? @luck萧
