Short- and mid-term line trading: I’ve always stuck to two principles.
First, when clear oversold rebound signals and a trend start to show up on the daily and weekly charts, but the hourly timeframe is still choppy and back-and-forth—confusing you until you can’t tell what to do—I prioritize the daily and weekly. Because once the bigger timeframe begins to repair, no matter how the smaller timeframe shakes you out or whipsaws you, the odds are still high that price will ultimately reach the daily and weekly rebound targets.
Trading can’t be right every single time. But as long as there’s logic and evidence behind your judgment, even if you end up wrong, it’s still a correct decision in essence. What trading fears most is never just making a mistake—it’s having no judgment of your own. When it rises you ask others, when it falls you ask others, and in the end you don’t even know why you bought in the first place.
Second, once the “bottom-picking” zone has been locked to 2–3 locations, and those levels may all be revisited with pullbacks, don’t insist on waiting for that so-called absolute low. The market isn’t an exam—you don’t have to get full marks every time.
Adults don’t make choices. They just want it all. And if you’ve already determined this is a bottom zone, as long as the rebound space afterward can cover your entry cost, getting in a bit earlier is fundamentally just taking on a little short-term floating loss, in exchange for the chance to get on board sooner.
If you want to eat the big move, you sometimes have to endure things that ordinary people can’t.
Because missing the opportunity to get in and carrying a floating loss are two completely different psychological states. If you keep waiting for the absolute lowest point, and the market rebounds immediately, the more it rises, the less you dare to chase—until you end up watching the whole move go by.
But if you enter early in the bottom zone, even if you start with a small floating loss, once price moves into floating profit, your position mindset actually becomes steadier and steadier. That makes it easier to hold through this trend.
So my trading logic has always been simple: the bigger timeframe gives the direction, and the smaller timeframe finds the entry spot. I’d rather get in a little early in the bottom zone than miss the entire trade just to chase absolute perfection. The market itself isn’t perfect—so people shouldn’t, for sure, try to make their trading perfect.
First, when clear oversold rebound signals and a trend start to show up on the daily and weekly charts, but the hourly timeframe is still choppy and back-and-forth—confusing you until you can’t tell what to do—I prioritize the daily and weekly. Because once the bigger timeframe begins to repair, no matter how the smaller timeframe shakes you out or whipsaws you, the odds are still high that price will ultimately reach the daily and weekly rebound targets.
Trading can’t be right every single time. But as long as there’s logic and evidence behind your judgment, even if you end up wrong, it’s still a correct decision in essence. What trading fears most is never just making a mistake—it’s having no judgment of your own. When it rises you ask others, when it falls you ask others, and in the end you don’t even know why you bought in the first place.
Second, once the “bottom-picking” zone has been locked to 2–3 locations, and those levels may all be revisited with pullbacks, don’t insist on waiting for that so-called absolute low. The market isn’t an exam—you don’t have to get full marks every time.
Adults don’t make choices. They just want it all. And if you’ve already determined this is a bottom zone, as long as the rebound space afterward can cover your entry cost, getting in a bit earlier is fundamentally just taking on a little short-term floating loss, in exchange for the chance to get on board sooner.
If you want to eat the big move, you sometimes have to endure things that ordinary people can’t.
Because missing the opportunity to get in and carrying a floating loss are two completely different psychological states. If you keep waiting for the absolute lowest point, and the market rebounds immediately, the more it rises, the less you dare to chase—until you end up watching the whole move go by.
But if you enter early in the bottom zone, even if you start with a small floating loss, once price moves into floating profit, your position mindset actually becomes steadier and steadier. That makes it easier to hold through this trend.
So my trading logic has always been simple: the bigger timeframe gives the direction, and the smaller timeframe finds the entry spot. I’d rather get in a little early in the bottom zone than miss the entire trade just to chase absolute perfection. The market itself isn’t perfect—so people shouldn’t, for sure, try to make their trading perfect.