Many friends who trade always have an obsession in their minds: “This has to drop to XX first before I’ll make a move.”

But how would the market ever follow your script every time? You lock onto that number, and it just happens to fall short by a little without turning back—then it rushes higher. All you can do is stare, watching opportunities slip through your fingers, wasting a great trading window.

Worse still, to wait for this “ideal price,” you’ll unconsciously “let water into your own plan”—the buy and sell signals you originally set: you start thinking, “It’s close enough.” The stop-loss level you originally planned: you tell yourself, “Hold on a bit longer, to lower the average cost.” At this point, your trades are no longer what you initially planned—they’re driven purely by a moment of impulse.

Once the first step goes off track, everything after it falls apart: you can’t hold the positions you should take, you can’t bring yourself to exit when you should, and every step becomes “filling the hole” created by the previous one. What started as a small mistake inevitably snowballs into a huge loss.

In the end, don’t try to guess the market’s next move based on your own thoughts. When a signal comes, act. When it doesn’t, wait. Chasing “buying at the lowest point” is like waiting for a pie to fall from the sky—not realistic, and not important. What matters is trusting your rules, and truly being able to follow them—that’s the hard truth of actually reaping results.

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