2025-12-29 15:26:08

Desires amplify, and all you see are trading opportunities— but often behind those opportunities are traps. The most common mistake made by traders blinded by desire is to impulsively open positions based on subjective judgment. For those hoping to turn their fortunes around quickly through trading, looking back, nine out of ten have likely experienced a loss. This is no coincidence.

The true trading discipline is not to follow desire. We must adhere to operating based on system signals, allowing the trading frequency to be determined by the system rather than subjective will. Resisting the urge to act when the opportunity isn't right is more difficult than seizing the right opportunity—but this is the biggest difference between traders who survive and those who are eventually eliminated.

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TokenUnlocker

· 01-01 00:51

Basically, it's just greed leading to murder. The story of those who watch the K-line every day hoping to get rich quick and end up as weeds. System discipline is easy to understand but hard to implement. Those who can survive until the end are the ones who can resist the urge to trade. The dream of turning things around sounds tempting, but what about the cost of account zeroing out? Who is willing to bear it? I think the hardest part is not finding signals, but holding back that finger from clicking randomly. Desire is truly the biggest enemy of traders, no doubt. A false illusion of huge profits can destroy all discipline in an instant.

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DoomCanister

· 2025-12-31 21:16

That's so true. I am the one who was consumed by desire, and only now do I understand.

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SandwichVictim

· 2025-12-31 17:57

You are absolutely right, this is my painful lesson. A few months ago, I saw opportunities everywhere, but I got liquidated in a month. Now I realize that all of that was just an illusion.

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GasFeeNightmare

· 2025-12-30 13:46

Late at night, I started getting itchy again, this article feels like it's talking about me... --- System signals? My system is just watching the chart until 3 AM before sleeping, then missing the best entry... --- Hold back? Bro, I can't even resist cross-chain transfers, let alone talk about trading discipline. --- Most likely, I’m in that batch of crashes, and I confidently calculated that I could save gas fees, haha. --- It's actually just greed index and bankruptcy speed being proportional; the data is right here. --- What you said is correct but useless; desire is even harder to control than gwei. --- The traders who can really survive are probably those who can endure, but I am not one of them. --- Now I finally understand, a trading system isn't used to make money; it's a tool for self-punishment.

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DaoDeveloper

· 2025-12-29 15:56

ngl the hardest part isn't spotting signals, it's literally doing nothing when fomo kicks in. that's where most degens fail fr

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GateUser-00be86fc

· 2025-12-29 15:52

Exactly right, so many people have died because of this. Greed brings temporary pleasure, but the account becomes a crematorium.

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AirdropChaser

· 2025-12-29 15:48

That's right, I was overleveraged because of greed, and now I can only wait and see.