For a while, I truly wondered whether trading was even right for me. It was after a streak of consecutive losses. I remember it very clearly: over about two weeks, I placed 12 trades in total—only 3 were profitable, and the other 9 all resulted in losses. My account dropped from over 10,000 USDT to over 8,000 USDT. The loss on each individual trade wasn’t even that extreme. What really hurt was when I kept getting things wrong back to back—I started doubting my own judgment.

At the time, BTC was hovering and churning around the 60,000+ US dollar range. I would think it was about to break out, and then I’d think it would drop. In the morning I was bullish, by afternoon I was bearish, and at night I would chase longs again—completely without any consistent rhythm. There was one trade where I shorted around 63,800. When the price fell to about 63,100, I made a few hundred USDT because I thought it could keep dropping, so I didn’t close the position. Then the price suddenly surged back to 64,500. Not only did I give back my profits—I flipped from winning to losing. The next day, I chased a long again around 64,500, but the price immediately dropped to around 63,000. That back-and-forth, getting slapped in the face like that, was especially tormenting.

At its worst, I even opened positions seven or eight times in a single day. Every time I lost a little, I felt that the next trade would make it back. But by the end of the day, the account was down another four or five hundred U. That night, I went back through my trading records and realized I wasn’t really without opportunities—I just wanted to trade too badly. When the market was choppy, I kept forcing chances out of it; when there were no signals, I still tried to come up with an excuse to enter.

After that, I stopped for a few days and did nothing. When I started again, I set myself a very simple requirement: no more than two or three trades per day. If there wasn’t a suitable setup, I’d just stay out. At first it was hard, because watching the market move but not being able to act gives you a feeling like, “I’m missing an opportunity.” Later I slowly realized that what causes me to lose money most often is exactly this fear of missing out.

Once, BTC quickly dropped from around 61,000 to 59,000. I had thought it would keep falling, but I didn’t enter right away—I waited for a rebound. Later, when the price rebounded to around 60,300, I finally placed a short. In the end, it fell to around 58,500, and I closed the position. The whole trade made less than 300U. The amount wasn’t big, but I was really happy that day because it was my first time to complete a trade based on a plan of my own.

Now I still occasionally have a few losing trades in a row, but I’m no longer like before—desperate to prove myself. If the market is wrong, you can reanalyze; if you’re wrong, accept it. The longer I trade, the more I feel that what’s truly difficult isn’t finding a profitable trade—it’s staying normal even during consecutive mistakes.$CAP $牛来 $PONS