Trading at the end is not about how much skill you have,\nbut whether you can avoid making basic mistakes consistently.\nAnd most of these basic mistakes come from—subjective biases.\n\n1. Confirmation Bias\nHaving a conclusion first, then looking for evidence\nThis is the most common and also the most deadly.\nYou decide to go long first,\nso your charts are full of supporting signals;\nYou decide to go short first,\nso the highs are all seen as resistance.\nIndicators become decorations,\nstructures become embellishments.\nOnce the market doesn’t match your expectations,\nyou don’t adjust your strategy,\nbut instead adjust your “interpretation”.\n\n2. Emotional Bias\nEmotions dominate decision-making, not signals\nAfter a series of losses, you rush to recover,\nAfter consecutive profits, you become overconfident.\nThe same technical setup,\nunder different emotional states,\nresults in completely different outcomes.\nYou think the market has changed,\nbut actually, you have changed.\n\n3. Price Bias\nThinking it’s “expensive” or “cheap”\nThis is the most deceptive feeling in trading.\n“It's risen so much, can I still buy?”\n“It's fallen so much, it won’t drop further, right?”\nMarkets only distinguish strength and weakness,\nnot high or low.\nAll orders that feel “cheap”\nare born in a downtrend.\n\n4. Experience Bias\nUsing past losses to bias current judgment\nHaving lost at a certain level before,\nwhen the price comes again,\nyou instinctively avoid it.\nOr having made money in a certain pattern,\nyou unconditionally trust it later.\nMarkets are dynamic,\nyou are trading with old memories on new trends.\n\n5. Self-Bias\nUnwilling to admit you are wrong\nThis is the root of all biases.\nUnwilling to cut losses,\nunwilling to retreat,\nnot

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