2026-01-03 13:25:30

Losses are not about misjudging the direction, but about not grasping the position well.

Yesterday, I took a short position near 90888, with an initial take-profit target set at 88500. It sounds ideal, but reality is often more complicated — the support level at 90300 performed far beyond expectations, with enough strength to force me to cut losses early.

There's an old saying: "A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall," and the logic behind it is the same. Instead of betting on a possibility, it's better to avoid risks in time. Although the direction was correct, failing to hold the position means missing out on subsequent gains.

The biggest takeaway from this operation is realizing a problem: knowing what to do and actually doing it are worlds apart. Trading tests not only technical analysis but also psychological resilience and discipline. The next step is to continue refining, so that cognition and action are aligned.

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DAOplomacy

· 01-05 16:21

honestly the whole "knowing vs doing" thing is just institutional path dependency wrapped in trader language, nah?

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NewPumpamentals

· 01-04 00:10

Honestly, it felt like I was almost winning big, but then got reversed by the support level. The direction was right, but not holding the position resulted in a loss. The logic is simple, but it's really difficult to actually do.

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MoodFollowsPrice

· 01-03 13:47

Oh no, it's the same old problem again. Knowing what to do is easy, but actually doing it is really not that simple.

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DaoDeveloper

· 01-03 13:40

honestly the support level resilience thing is fascinating from a game-theoretic angle—like your 90300 decision point becomes this tradeoff optimization problem between conviction and tail risk mitigation. the gap between knowing and executing? that's literally an implementation detail gap in your trading protocol lol

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MEVSandwichMaker

· 01-03 13:37

That's right, even if the position is wrong, pointing in the right direction is useless. Cognition and action are really worlds apart; it's easy to talk about but hard to do.

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FomoAnxiety

· 01-03 13:32

Here we go again, the direction is right but the position is wrong. It’s easy to say, but in reality, it just means being stopped out.

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