Many people think they are trading.

Actually, they are not.
You are just using the market to vent your emotions.
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The moment you place an order, it looks like a decision.
But if you seriously look back, you'll realize:
That order wasn't because an opportunity appeared.
It's because you couldn't hold back.
Couldn't resist wanting to participate,
Couldn't resist wanting to recover your losses,
Couldn't resist wanting to prove yourself,
Couldn't resist wanting to turn around the previous loss.
So you clicked that order.
But that order, from the very beginning, was not a trade.
It was emotion.
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Trading has standards.
Emotions have no standards.
Trading has conditions, boundaries, and rhythm.
Emotions have only one characteristic:
They come quickly and must be vented immediately.
When you're anxious, you want to act.
When you lose, you want to make up for it.
When it rises, you're afraid of missing out.
When it falls, you panic.
These behaviors look like trading,
But essentially, they are just emotions seeking an outlet.
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A very typical situation:
After a series of losses.
You initially only lost a few trades.
But from a certain moment, your state has changed.
You no longer care whether this trade is worth doing,
You only care about:
👉 Can this trade help me turn it around?
You no longer make decisions based on your system,
You start reacting according to emotions.
Seeing a little fluctuation, you want to jump in,
Seeing a reversal, you start panicking,
Stop-losses become more and more casual,
Positions become more and more aggressive.
At this point, you are no longer a trader.
You are someone controlled by emotions.
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The market's most skilled harvesters,
Are never those who can't understand.