During the sideways consolidation period, use "range + grid thinking" to reduce emotional fluctuations.

When the market is not trending, many people tend to get confused easily — going up and down repeatedly, frequently hitting stop losses.

In this situation, I switch to "range trading + grid thinking."

How to do it?

First, confirm it is a consolidation rather than a trend.

The price repeatedly encounters resistance near the same high point and stabilizes near the same low point;

Indicators and moving averages are all tangled together, with no clear direction.

Draw the upper and lower bounds of the range.

The upper side acts as a potential reduction/short selling zone;

The lower side acts as a potential buying/ replenishing zone.

Only act near these two zones, and avoid making trades in the middle area as much as possible.

Enter and exit in batches, rather than all at once.

Buying: place 2–3 batches of orders near the lower bound;

Reducing position: take profit with 2–3 batches near the upper bound.

If the range is effectively broken with significant volume, stop the grid approach and switch back to a trend strategy.

The benefit of this approach:

You do not need to "precisely predict tops and bottoms";

Use mechanical batch entries to replace emotional "all in and all out."

Remember: the goal during a consolidation period is not to make a huge profit all at once, but to steadily grind out profits + wait for the next round of trends.