During the period of sideways fluctuations, use "range + grid thinking" to reduce emotional volatility.

When the market is not trending, many people are most likely to be confused—frequently stop-loss being hit while going back and forth.

In this case, I switch to "range trading + grid thinking".

How to do it?

First, confirm it is a fluctuation rather than a trend.

The price repeatedly encounters resistance near the same high and stabilizes near the same low;

Indicators and moving averages are all intertwined with no clear direction.

Draw the upper and lower bounds of the range.

The upper side serves as a potential area for reducing positions/shorting;

The lower side serves as a potential area for adding positions/replenishing.

Only act near these two areas, and avoid taking action in the middle zone as much as possible.

Enter and exit in batches instead of all at once.

Adding positions: place 2–3 batch orders near the lower bound;

Reducing positions: take profit in 2–3 batch orders near the upper bound.

If the range is effectively broken with increased volume, stop the grid approach and switch back to the trend strategy.

The benefits of this approach:

You do not need to "precisely predict tops and bottoms";

Use mechanized batching to replace emotional "all-in and all-out".

Remember: The goal during the fluctuation period is not to take a big profit all at once, but to steadily grind out profits + wait for the next round of trends.