I found myself getting kept awake for the third time by “floating losses,” and even with a small position, it’s the same. When I’m in floating gains, my mind is thinking, “Anyway, I haven’t cashed it out yet,” and my mindset stays pretty relaxed. But once it turns red to green, it feels like it’s reminding me, “You’ve already made a mistake”—to put it bluntly, it’s my ego that gets breached first. The more I watch it, the more I want to make up for it; the more I try to fix it, the more panicked I become.

Recently, everyone’s been talking about rate-cut expectations, the U.S. Dollar Index, and risk assets rising and falling together. I can’t help looking for reasons to explain the moves either, but even after I explain them, it doesn’t stop my heart from racing… So now I trust the process more: if I can get more approvals, I get more approvals first; if I can tighten permissions, I tighten them; if I can do less, I do less. Slow down if I need to—at least then I can sleep at night.