Trading is a series of small tragedies. Every red candle feels like a punch to the gut, a Stop Loss hit weighs on you for hours. You stop seeing the market, you only feel your own pain. And when that pain is close enough, it always seems bigger than it is. 📉
Getting too close blinds you. It steals your reason. Every decision smells of revenge – trying to claw back a loss, to avoid feeling like a failure. But here’s the strange thing: look back three months, and that same losing trade feels insignificant. You barely remember why you were so desperate.
From a distance, you see the bigger picture. One loss is just dust on the journey. A losing streak, a bump in the road. There are no smooth paths to success. The market takes the money of those who focus on the short-term, and rewards those who can see the long game.
Short-term traders obsess over every candle. Long-term traders survive cycles. Short-term traders ask “Why did this trade lose?” Long-term traders ask “After one hundred trades, is this system still valid?” The difference isn’t technique, it’s perspective.
You don’t need to win every time. You just need to avoid losing too much, and not give up too soon. Opportunities always exist, but only for those who are still in the game. When you’re still hurting from a loss, you’re looking too close. Trading doesn’t need you to be right all the time, it just needs you to be patient enough to see it through.
Close up: tragedy. Far away: comedy. Not because the pain disappears, but because you’ve stood far enough back to realize it was never that important. Forget the 1-minute, 5-minute, 15-minute charts.
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