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The most deadly thing in trading is never how the market moves—it’s you people always temporarily changing your explanation logic based on account profit and loss. In plain terms, it’s self-deception.

When you’re down a little, you say you need to “avoid risk,” and you stubbornly refuse to admit you’re wrong. But when the loss reaches a 50% cut, you start getting reckless and chase high leverage in the hope of turning it around. And you even mutter, “Since we’ve already lost so much, what’s there to be afraid of?” Does your fear have anything to do with the market? This kind of inverted risk awareness isn’t trading anymore at its core—it’s managing your ego. Closing positions and admitting you were wrong means admitting that the chain of decisions you made beforehand was all wrong. You can’t stand that. So to protect that pathetic little shred of self-respect, you’d rather gamble on a very low-probability surge than click the mouse to end the mistake.

There’s another, more covert one: packaging a speculation failure that left you deeply trapped as “long-termism.” When things go your way, you’re thinking about short-term high returns. When you’re against the tide and trapped, you immediately change your tune and call it “staying with it and growing together.” Real long-termism is different—it’s verifying the holding period, cash flow, and planning in advance under what conditions you add more and under what conditions you leave. It’s not buying and then getting stuck where you can’t sell, then finding a lofty excuse to cover it up. Is that long-termism? No, that’s helplessness.

To climb out of this vicious cycle, the only way is to throw away the part in your head that says, “I need to prove I’m right,” and replace it with probability thinking. Before placing an order, force yourself to write it out clearly: why you’re buying, the maximum how long you’ll hold, what conditions would prove that you’re wrong, and what you’ll do after you’re wrong. If you can’t write it, don’t open a trade. Once the direction is wrong, there are only two options: reduce size or exit. Absolutely no adding risk exposure in the wrong direction. That’s what gamblers do—not what traders do.

Time won’t automatically make faulty logic correct. Holding through it and getting back only earns you luck, not skill. Rip off that psychological “massage” routine, build your trading on entry rules and unconditional stop-losses, and then—only then—can you barely say you’ve pulled yourself out of that gambling pit.

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