Having played with currencies like $LIGHT and $RIVER for so long, you’ll realize at a certain point: the real threshold isn’t in candlestick charts or indicators, but in whether you can control yourself.

Resist the urge to chase gains. Restrain the greed to capitalize on every wave of the market. The toughest is to hold back that drive to prove yourself in uncertain times.

Once you start to understand that holding a flat position is also a normal trading state, and begin to allow yourself to miss certain opportunities (but not the principle of missing out), trading becomes much easier. Why? Because you’re no longer fighting against the market.

Look at those who truly make money—they aren’t watching the charts every day, nor are they always perfectly bottom-fishing. Most of the time, they’re waiting. Only when an opportunity aligns with their trading plan do they take action. The market offers countless opportunities, but those who can survive to see the next day are truly rare.

Ultimately, what widens the profit gap isn’t how many books you’ve read or how many technical indicators you’ve learned, but whether—at the most chaotic moment in the market, when your emotions are at their peak—you can still follow your trading system.

That’s why keeping a good trading journal is essential. Not just recording buy and sell points, but also noting your thoughts, mindset, hesitation, and impulses at the time. Looking back, you’ll find that price becomes less important, but your psychological evolution becomes crystal clear—what market conditions are easy to fall into traps, under what emotions you’re most likely to slip up, and what conditions keep you clear-headed.

This is the meaning of review. A reading, a conversation, a sudden insight—any of these might save your life at some future moment. Because understanding evolves with experience; words you once couldn’t grasp often only make sense after a loss.

The ultimate goal of trading is never to beat Bitcoin or the market, but to learn how to live peacefully with yourself.