The end of trading is philosophy.

I have read books, watched YouTube, and even bought courses, but the biggest change for me was shifting from trading psychology to trading philosophy.

What have I learned?

Stoicism — it is the only philosophy built around the gap between what you can control and what you cannot control. When things are outside my control, how should I behave? That is basically everything we face as traders every day.

Nietzsche’s “Will to Power” — most people pursue comfort, but as traders, what we truly need to pursue is to stick to our system even when it’s extremely uncomfortable, or when your inner voice tells you “it’s all over.”

Nietzsche’s “Love of Fate” — simply put, it’s accepting everything that happens. Not just accepting, but loving it. Even if you execute your system perfectly and still incur losses, we should still enjoy this “pain.”

Kant’s “Phenomena and Noumenon” — we have never directly experienced the market. We see the market through screens, through our eyes, through emotions, through previous losses, and so on. Thousands of people look at the same chart every day, but see completely different things. We must step back and realize that what we see is not the market itself, but our “perception” of the market, which is why I insist on writing trading logs to make this perception more tangible.

Schopenhauer’s “Life is Inevitable Suffering” — I win a trade, I am not satisfied, I want to win another. I lose a trade, I am not satisfied, I want to win it back. No matter the outcome, I am never satisfied in trading, so I must learn to reevaluate how I judge my trading.

These are just the tip of the iceberg; if you’re interested, you can go read the original works of these philosophers. $BTC $ETH $SOL