From multiple margin calls to making a profit every month, what is the secret?

The essence of trading has never been a contest of skills, but a mastery over human nature.
Brother Mao learned this lesson through four margin calls and a cost of $350k.
Novices often fall into three misconceptions: studying all indicators but not daring to place orders,
getting carried away with small profits, losing everything with heavy positions, staying up all night watching the market but seeing their account turn green.
In fact, 90% of losses stem from cognitive traps.
To advance in trading, you must pass four hurdles. The first is the “Margin Call Eternal Motion Machine,”
placing orders based on feelings, mistaking luck for strength, until a series of “sugar-coated cannonballs” reveals the market’s fangs.
The second is the “Knowledge Transporter,” obsessively learning strategies and copying trades, but not understanding money management, like running naked into a minefield.
The third is the “Mindset Bandage Hero,” having technical skills but relying on willpower to endure, suppressing emotions fiercely, only to lose badly when out of control.
The fourth is the “System Ruler,” achieving fixed position sizes (risk per trade <2%), developing patience to wait (prefer missing opportunities over making mistakes), and being indifferent to gains and losses (account fluctuations as wins or losses), at which point trading becomes just a tool.
The core of consistent profitability is the three driving forces: capital management as the backbone, leaving room for mistakes to survive; a trading system as the sinew, with rules simple enough to be “mindless” to execute; and mental cultivation as the soul, recognizing greed and fear reflected in candlesticks as the true opponents.
The market never actively defeats anyone; losers are always defeated by themselves.
The essence of stable profits is to tame that self who always dreams of overnight riches.