Honestly, I’ve been reflecting on a question lately: why do the same strategies make some people money while others lose?

I came across a post by Dōngbì Māo (Smart Money Ranking, #3), and it instantly made everything clear for me.

He said that choppy markets and continuous losing streaks are actually good things. They prove your loyalty to the system and set you apart from everyone else.

How does that work? In an ideal, properly expected system, every trade also isn’t “perfect.” You need to cut losses, withstand drawdowns, and pay trial-and-error costs when the market has no clear trend. At this point, your equity curve will be choppy and trend downward.

But is the system actually flawed when you lose money, or is this cost something you must pay under uncertainty?

Dōngbì Māo put it very clearly: when most people keep losing in a row, their instinct is to change the system. Then it collapses within minutes. It’s not that the system is bad—it’s that he doesn’t have the most fundamental trust in his own system.

The Turtle Trading rule has been public for so many years—how many people truly master it? When they’re making money, they say it’s great. The moment they start losing, they begin looking for excuses—“it’s outdated,” “too many people know about it,” and so on. The logic has never changed; most people just can’t get through the choppy period.

Let’s do it together.