Once you've been trading for a while, you'll realize that trading can be so simple.

Those so-called trading experts don't know more than you do, nor do they understand the market better than you; they just know how to control their hands better than you.

And this is the true essence of trading. It's really simple, so simple that from the very beginning you know it, but at that time you weren't perceptive enough and didn't believe it.
You didn't believe because you were too impatient.
Impatient to prove yourself, eager to recover your losses, anxious to catch every fluctuation, afraid of missing out on something.
But the market's greatest skill is rewarding those who are not in a hurry and punishing all hands with distracting thoughts.

Look back at the trades you've made; the ones that truly made your account look bad were never the ones within the system, but those fluctuations that you could have completely avoided.
You clearly knew it wasn't the right zone, you knew the outcome hadn't played out yet, you knew the risk-reward ratio was off, but you still entered.
Why? Because in your mind there was only one sentence: What if this time it works?

Let me tell you something harsh but valuable:
Most people in trading don't lose because they can't read the market, but because they always feel they can't miss out.
The reason you can't control your hands is because you treat trading as a stage to prove yourself.
You want to prove you can read the market correctly, you want to prove you're faster than others, you want to prove you're different this time.
But the market never cares who you are; it only cares whether you have the qualification to make a move.

A true professional trader spends 90% of their time doing nothing.
It's not that they can't understand the market, but that they are waiting—waiting for their rhythm, waiting for their opportunity, waiting for their own wave of market movement.