The most heartbreaking part of trading isn’t losing money, but staying busy while repeatedly falling into the same trap, never making real progress.

Step 1: Blindly Relying on Luck
You see a direction from a big influencer/blogger/KOL, go all-in, leverage up and gamble. If you make a little profit, you run away quickly. If you lose, you keep holding, hoping to break even when the loss gets big. As soon as you break even, you exit immediately. If you get liquidated, you start doubting life and curse the influencer, blaming them for colluding with projects/exchanges to scam you. This isn’t trading, it’s gambling. The market isn't taking your money—you are delivering it yourself.

Step 2: Blind Faith in Technicals/Indicators
Once you realize luck doesn’t work, you start learning techniques—moving averages, Elliott Waves, Chan Theory, patterns, divergences… You start speaking in technical jargon, making yourself look like you know what you’re doing, but the more you learn, the more you lose. Indicators aren’t the problem—the problem is you want shortcuts, you want a tool to do the thinking for you, treating tools as the answer to trading.

Step 3: Understanding the Rules
You begin to realize that rules are more important than techniques. The simpler the system, the better your survival. You stop chasing the logic of all kinds of complicated techniques and use the simplest logic to view the market: buy the breakout, sell the breakdown, cut losses when wrong, hold when right. But don’t think you’ve made it just yet. The biggest issue is still execution—having rules but lacking courage, afraid to go long when prices rise, afraid to short when they fall, making plans but not sticking to them, hesitating when it’s time to act.

Step 4: Understanding Probability
At this stage, you start to resemble a professional trader. Discipline becomes instinct. You cut losses when needed, close positions when necessary, and finally understand the truth of trading: it’s not about winning or losing a single trade; a single loss isn’t punishment, it’s the price of testing your strategy. You no longer expect to win every trade—what matters is your long-term strategy and compounding returns, which can win you more over time.

Step 5: Realizing Human Nature
This is true enlightenment. The market isn’t about indicators, techniques, or charts—it’s about human nature. You read prices like emotions, trends like human greed, volatility like people’s struggles. Facing the market, you are calm, unhurried, neither greedy nor panicked. Entering a trade is like breathing, exiting like blinking—no more emotions, just the fusion of human nature and probability.

The market isn’t really difficult—the difficulty is in facing your own laziness, greed, fear, and hesitation…
Which step are you on now? 🙌🙌🙌