2026-01-02 02:30:25

Having played with currencies like $LIGHT and $RIVER for so long, you’ll realize at a certain point: the real threshold isn’t in candlestick charts or indicators, but in whether you can control yourself.

Resist the urge to chase gains. Restrain the greed to capitalize on every wave of the market. The toughest is to hold back that drive to prove yourself in uncertain times.

Once you start to understand that holding a flat position is also a normal trading state, and begin to allow yourself to miss certain opportunities (but not the principle of missing out), trading becomes much easier. Why? Because you’re no longer fighting against the market.

Look at those who truly make money—they aren’t watching the charts every day, nor are they always perfectly bottom-fishing. Most of the time, they’re waiting. Only when an opportunity aligns with their trading plan do they take action. The market offers countless opportunities, but those who can survive to see the next day are truly rare.

Ultimately, what widens the profit gap isn’t how many books you’ve read or how many technical indicators you’ve learned, but whether—at the most chaotic moment in the market, when your emotions are at their peak—you can still follow your trading system.

That’s why keeping a good trading journal is essential. Not just recording buy and sell points, but also noting your thoughts, mindset, hesitation, and impulses at the time. Looking back, you’ll find that price becomes less important, but your psychological evolution becomes crystal clear—what market conditions are easy to fall into traps, under what emotions you’re most likely to slip up, and what conditions keep you clear-headed.

This is the meaning of review. A reading, a conversation, a sudden insight—any of these might save your life at some future moment. Because understanding evolves with experience; words you once couldn’t grasp often only make sense after a loss.

The ultimate goal of trading is never to beat Bitcoin or the market, but to learn how to live peacefully with yourself.

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ETHmaxi_NoFilter

· 2h ago

That's right, restraint is the greatest skill, more effective than any MA. That's how I am myself. I used to chase every rise daily, only to get caught repeatedly. Later, I realized that the more I couldn't hold back, the easier I was to lose money. The periods of holding cash actually earned me the most. I'm also sticking to journaling now, which really helps me see clearly when I'm most greedy and when my mind is the least clear.

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token_therapist

· 2h ago

You're absolutely right; self-control is really the hardest lesson. I only realized this after losing several times by chasing the market.

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ContractSurrender

· 2h ago

That's so true, self-control is really the hardest lesson. I used to be the kind of person who couldn't stop chasing limit-ups, but I only realized after suffering heavy losses that staying in cash can also make money.

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rug_connoisseur

· 2h ago

That's right, restraint is truly more valuable than any indicator. I was just trying to prove myself earlier, but ended up getting hurt pretty badly.

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4am_degen

· 2h ago

To be honest, the part about writing trading logs really hit me. Looking back at the worst losing trades I had before, I now realize how inflated I was at that time.

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TestnetScholar

· 2h ago

That's so true, it's really a psychological game. I used to chase every rise and sell at every dip every day, but after several big losses, I finally understood — those who make money are never the ones who place the most orders.

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