Many people have been in the market for ten years and are still circling at the first hurdle.


It's not because stop-loss is too difficult to learn, but because it's too easy to do! Easy to do, but impossible to actually do! Set a price, when it hits, cut it. Mechanical, like a worker on an assembly line. What's so hard about that? The hard part is watching that candlestick break through your stop-loss level, then charging forward in the original direction you judged, without looking back; as if the market specifically sent a sniper rifle to target the two dates and three melons in your account.
Since I started live streaming, I often trade with everyone intraday, always emphasizing the importance of stop-loss because the traders in the chat room have varying skill levels. I don't know everyone's trading habits—whether cautious or impulsive. Some set their stop-loss at the liquidation price, some can't see their stop-loss, some can cut half their position at stop-loss. I can only set a standard point for everyone. What I want to teach is not just the action of stop-loss, but that you know you need to stop-loss and have set it, even if you see it hit and then the market moves back in your original direction. This is a process from knowing to doing; unity of knowledge and action is how it comes about.
And then there's the stop-loss after learning it—no longer stopping.
What I mean by not stopping here isn't about holding through a position, like this time entering early. The market logic hasn't changed, the fundamentals haven't changed. The floating loss is just a short-term mismatch of market sentiment. My goal is to surpass the previous high with a longer-term plan. In this case, stop-loss isn't risk control; it's cowardly fleeing when institutions force a short squeeze.
The first hurdle is mechanical, simple, and only requires overcoming emotion to execute. The second hurdle of not stopping is complex, fuzzy, and requires judgment and resolve. The first is to cut, the second is to sit tight. After learning some simple and effective trading actions, and repeatedly placing orders like a robot with stop-loss and take-profit, you'll gain something very mysterious—an intuitive feel for the market, hard to explain.
You'll know the probability of success for each trade, the likelihood of hitting stop-loss, whether to bet heavily or lightly. You learn to control yourself and seek market patterns. You begin to walk the path of finding your own way. In the near future, you'll have your own independent trading system. This was the main theme of my last teaching session: cultivating and perfecting traders with independent systems!
From stop-loss to not stopping is a long journey of self-cultivation. Calm down, execute, and let the results come when they will. #交易心理 #加密市场观察
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