Do you always feel like “making less is the same as losing”?
Let me ask you a question first:
Suppose you have an order in hand, and you’re up by 10%. You don’t close it—you want to wait for more. Then the market pulls back, and your profit drops from 10% to 2%. You panic and exit.
After you’re out, what you tell yourself is, “If only I had closed when it was at 10%.”
Then on the next trade, when you’re up 5%, you exit. After you exit, the market keeps going another 30%. And you start regretting again: “If only I had held a bit longer.”
Have you noticed the problem?
You’re always regretting.
Regret when you make less; regret when you exit too early; regret when you don’t enter; regret even after you enter.
Your trading career is basically a history of regret.
Why does this happen?
Because there’s a voice in your head saying, “I should make more.”
That voice never lets you be satisfied with the profits you have right now—it keeps you chasing the imagined, bigger profit.
And then, in order to get “more,” you even risk the profits you already had.
The biggest trap in trading is the idea that “making less is losing.”
You originally made 5%—that’s the fact. But you think it’s not enough. You feel like, “It could have been 10%,” so you decide you “lost” the extra 5%.
To chase those 5% that didn’t even exist, you end up wiping out the real 5% as well.
In the end, you make nothing—and even lose money on fees.
So how do you cure this?
First, set your target level before you enter.
Not “see how it goes when it happens,” but “when it hits, you exit.”
When your target is reached, no matter how much more may come later, close half first. Set the other half with a breakeven stop-loss so it can run on its own.
Second, what you make is what you make.
Don’t care how much others make, and don’t care how the market moves afterward.
The extra numbers in your account are real.
If you made it, you made it. Anything you didn’t make doesn’t belong to you in the first place.
Third, accept imperfection.
You’ll never sell at the very top, and you’ll never buy at the very bottom.
Accept that reality.
People who chase perfection don’t last long in trading.
If you’re the kind of person who’s “always regretting,” come in tonight.
I’ll use the current mainstream fake-out (shanzhai) market situation to demonstrate in real time: how to set targets, how to take profit, and how to accept imperfection.
Tonight at Bafangge—mainstream shanzhai trade guidance + one-on-one teaching.
Let me ask you a question first:
Suppose you have an order in hand, and you’re up by 10%. You don’t close it—you want to wait for more. Then the market pulls back, and your profit drops from 10% to 2%. You panic and exit.
After you’re out, what you tell yourself is, “If only I had closed when it was at 10%.”
Then on the next trade, when you’re up 5%, you exit. After you exit, the market keeps going another 30%. And you start regretting again: “If only I had held a bit longer.”
Have you noticed the problem?
You’re always regretting.
Regret when you make less; regret when you exit too early; regret when you don’t enter; regret even after you enter.
Your trading career is basically a history of regret.
Why does this happen?
Because there’s a voice in your head saying, “I should make more.”
That voice never lets you be satisfied with the profits you have right now—it keeps you chasing the imagined, bigger profit.
And then, in order to get “more,” you even risk the profits you already had.
The biggest trap in trading is the idea that “making less is losing.”
You originally made 5%—that’s the fact. But you think it’s not enough. You feel like, “It could have been 10%,” so you decide you “lost” the extra 5%.
To chase those 5% that didn’t even exist, you end up wiping out the real 5% as well.
In the end, you make nothing—and even lose money on fees.
So how do you cure this?
First, set your target level before you enter.
Not “see how it goes when it happens,” but “when it hits, you exit.”
When your target is reached, no matter how much more may come later, close half first. Set the other half with a breakeven stop-loss so it can run on its own.
Second, what you make is what you make.
Don’t care how much others make, and don’t care how the market moves afterward.
The extra numbers in your account are real.
If you made it, you made it. Anything you didn’t make doesn’t belong to you in the first place.
Third, accept imperfection.
You’ll never sell at the very top, and you’ll never buy at the very bottom.
Accept that reality.
People who chase perfection don’t last long in trading.
If you’re the kind of person who’s “always regretting,” come in tonight.
I’ll use the current mainstream fake-out (shanzhai) market situation to demonstrate in real time: how to set targets, how to take profit, and how to accept imperfection.
Tonight at Bafangge—mainstream shanzhai trade guidance + one-on-one teaching.
