【Repost】Trading is a game of lurking and waiting. Against standard pattern shapes, you must wait for the best opportunity to appear, then take action.

Because most people lose money because they can't resist. If no pattern appears, there is no starting gun. When you form a pattern in your mind and can tell at a glance whether to enter a position, you have basically succeeded. Slowly you will find that doing less is better than doing more, and sometimes doing nothing is better than doing less; slow is fast.

When the long-awaited pattern appears, enter without hesitation. Do what you should do in the moment; the road ahead will only be known once you walk it, and the market trend will only be known once you place the order. Everything should be based on your own trading system. If wrong, cut losses; if right, hold the position; trail the stop loss. Extended to trading: When opening a position, have no doubt; when holding a position, have no fear. Understand the value of waiting, acknowledge your ignorance, let go of unnecessary obsessions, and once expectations are lowered, your mind will be calm.

Some people analyze and go long, but the moment they encounter a small setback, they immediately doubt themselves, thinking they should not have gone long. When they go short, the same thing happens—a tiny bounce makes them mentally uncomfortable, and they start to doubt whether their direction was wrong, thinking they should not have shorted. This kind of situation is common. With weak will and indecision, they fear a drop when long and fear a rise when short, and end up failing at both sides.