To be honest, the market may seem full of opportunities, but if you carefully review a year's worth of trends, truly logical and impactful big moves are actually few and far between. Being able to steadily hold onto one of these waves ensures profits; if you catch two consecutive waves, you're basically ahead of most people.

However, there's a prerequisite—learning to control drawdowns.

This is the key. Many people's problem is that they try to seize every opportunity, but what happens? The money earned in one direction is quickly lost elsewhere, sometimes even resulting in a loss. What's even more painful is that this greedy mindset can trap you in the chase of rising prices and the panic of selling at lows. Not to mention making money, often it results in significant losses.

In contrast, experts take a different approach. They focus most of their energy on protecting their accounts, controlling losses on each trade, and patiently waiting. When one or two truly worthwhile opportunities come along, they concentrate their efforts. These two approaches lead to completely different account balances in the end.