In most fields, the harder you work, the more you reap.

Trading, though, follows a completely different logic.

Many people think trading effort means constantly watching the market and making frequent trades.

In reality, true effort means staying put and patiently watching.

People are naturally afraid of uncertainty. Waiting on the sidelines makes them anxious.

As soon as you place a trade, you get the illusion that you’re in control.

So they keep glued to the charts, casually adjust their stop-losses, hunt for opportunities everywhere, switch strategies back and forth, and pile all kinds of indicators onto their charts.

But in the market, opportunities that fit your trading system are rare to begin with.

If you can encounter it once or twice a month, that’s already pretty good.

Too many people, just to prove they’re still in the market, forcefully create opportunities to enter.

The more orders you open, the more fees, market noise, and impulsive decisions will end up harming your account in return.

Many people lose money not because they can’t read the market, and not because their technical skills aren’t good.

It’s just that they can’t bear the agony of being in cash, so they force themselves to find an opportunity to enter.

The ancients said: When water flows beneath the surface, it doesn’t rush to be first—so being urgent doesn’t mean being late.

Water doesn’t contend for speed or slowness; it flows naturally with the trend. The destination it’s meant to reach will, in the end, arrive.

The core of trading, in the end, comes down to one word: wait.

But many people lose everything they’ve saved, and in the end, they still can’t read the meaning of this one word.

A master’s skill isn’t in making frequent moves, but in learning how to wait—still as a maiden, swift as a startled rabbit!