I’ve found that stop-loss really is like a breakup—dragging things out without deleting the chat history… You say out loud, “Wait a bit for the rebound,” but then you end up staring at the chart every day, your heartbeat speeding up. The longer you拖, the harder it is to let go, and in the end, that “one cut” still makes you pay extra “interest” (emotional interest + opportunity cost).

My current habit is: before I enter the trade, I write down exactly where I’ll be wrong. When the time comes, I admit it—don’t negotiate with yourself. Recently, around that mainstream public chain’s upgrade/maintenance, people in the group started guessing whether the ecosystem might migrate. I also get an itch to take a gamble, but thinking about it, this kind of uncertainty is exactly what most easily turns someone into a “person who can’t break up.” Forget it—execute the discipline first, and then we’ll talk.