When engaging in leverage trading, do you follow your instincts or stubbornly stick to technical indicators?

It seems like you can only choose one, but in reality, taking either path alone can easily lead to disastrous losses.

**Traders who rely solely on intuition often feel uncertain.** When the market fluctuates slightly, they start to doubt themselves. Even with a well-planned trading strategy, they want to change their approach at the first sign of a pullback. Frequently adjusting positions not only risks a complete liquidation but also wears down the trader through repeated trial and error.

**But those who only look at technical indicators may not have an easier life either.** No matter how detailed the analysis framework, sudden market movements can break it. Stop-losses get hit, positions are lost, and then the price moves in the expected direction. At that moment, the trader's mindset is most likely to explode.

Then, most people fall into the same trap: they refuse to accept defeat, want to quickly recover losses; they become more and more impatient with their orders, increasing their position sizes; their judgments become careless and haphazard, resulting in more chaotic operations.

This is not a technical problem; it’s that people have completely lost their rhythm.

The root of the problem has never been about whether you use technical analysis or not, nor about whether you have a market feel. **The real core is: do you have a trading system that you can stick to long-term?**

This system must meet two conditions. First, when losses occur, you can accept them calmly without panic. Second, when market conditions change, you don’t need to make frequent temporary decisions.

Without clear boundaries and a fixed operational rhythm, relying on reactive decisions for each trade will only turn contract trading into a prolonged battle, gradually draining your energy and capital.

Many traders don’t fail because of their technical skills but because they haven’t established a reliable execution framework that makes them feel secure. Whether you can consistently profit ultimately depends not on how smart you are but on whether you can operate according to your plan under market pressure.

If you are still stuck in a cycle of overthinking—hesitating before placing orders, then regretting afterward—the answer is very clear: it’s not that the market is too difficult, but that your trading mindset has not yet stabilized.

Blindly guessing can easily lead to losses; only with a clear system can you trade more steadily. The best way to change your situation is to first build your own trading logic framework.