# Unable to Sleep - Trading Reflections and Notes:

1. Making money in trading is an inevitable result for me.

2. I've researched nearly every technical analysis method on the market, only to discover that in trading, the most important thing isn't technique—it's temperament. However, without technique, it's like throwing a fish into hot oil; there's no path to survival.

3. Almost none of the traders around me end up making money in the end, and this too is inevitable. Because they can't figure out their own identity and can't do what they should be doing.

4. First, ordinary people are retail traders. All price markets are full of traps and fake-outs. If you're a retail trader, don't even think about catching tops and bottoms. If retail traders could catch all the tops and bottoms, whose money would non-retail traders make? Do you really think people with tens or hundreds of billions in capital manipulate the market just for you to catch tops and bottoms? To put it bluntly, what's your status?

5. The only thing retail traders can do is follow the trend, sip some broth trailing behind big money's wake. If you can follow the trend well, that little bit of broth is enough to appreciate.

6. When you put capital into the market, if your heart gets too excited, that position is already half-dead. Even if it profits, you won't hold it. If it loses, you'll cut losses. We can't predict the market, but we can control gains and losses. Only when losses and gains stay within your preset range and your mind remains undisturbed can you be considered a mature trader.

7. Trading is too simple—just open a position when your trading system signals it, wait when it doesn't. Many people can't wait, thinking opportunities appear in the market constantly.

8. Trading is too difficult—it requires energy, focus, physical stamina, patience, emotion management, and mindset all in peak condition to achieve long-term stable profits. That's why you need fitness, meditation...

9. Don't have luck-based thinking like "if I go all-in, I'll turn things around if I win." That's greed. If there's even a 1% probability of loss, you can't go all-in.

10. Why does the market always target my position and hit my stop loss? Is the market picking on me? It's not targeting you specifically—it's targeting all retail traders and liquidity. Since you're the same as other retail traders, the market is always right. Blaming the market for losses is resentment.

11. If I had this technique, I'd be unstoppable. With AI or EA quantitative trading systems, I'd make stable profits—this is impossible. AI can assist with analysis, but the market is composed of all traders' collective decisions. AI can't precisely predict market direction. Using a fixed system to predict an unfixed market—how can you win? This is delusion, purely wishful thinking.

12. Not daring to enter after failing twice is hesitation, and you miss the move.

13. Losing faith in yourself after one or two failures is doubt. Various retracements will also cause suspicion.

14. The difference between trading and gambling—many people trade like gamblers. When they make money, they don't know how. When they lose, they don't know why. Ask them and they say it's from experience, feel, someone else's advice, or insider information someone mentioned. If experience and feel actually worked, everyone would be a millionaire. The reality is that feel and experience are the number one killer of retail traders.

15. If ordinary people don't understand trading, they shouldn't do it. It seems to require some talent. Trading is essentially a game of strategy, like Go—black and white, millions of variations.

16. Don't follow blindly in trading. Just because gold rises doesn't mean you should buy. Markets are driven by price movements. Even street sweepers know gold has risen—who then provides the capital to push gold prices higher? Even if someone tells you Bitcoin will crash or surge, you'll still make no money in the market. It's useless!

17. Trading is one person's spiritual practice. Sigh, we're back to spiritual practice again. Some paths aren't ones you choose to walk—fate pushes you down them. Where you end up isn't entirely your decision.

18. There's nothing in this world worth envying. Having money is fate, being poor is also fate. If you don't believe in destiny, perhaps your fate is good. Those with poor fate will start believing after struggling against it for a few years. Even your diligence and discipline, your laziness and indulgence—all are predetermined. Yet you say "my fate is mine, not heaven's."

19. Finally, on trading signals I provide—those trading with me, I'm terrified of them losing even a little, but the market is impermanent. Single losses or even a few consecutive losses are normal. But I can say that ultimately there will be profits. If you don't understand, I won't explain further. This actually puts considerable psychological pressure on me.

20. And finally, regarding my past—all the people from before, everything I've done that should or shouldn't have been done, good actions or bad—all are inevitable. There's nothing to regret nor anything particularly wonderful. Losses are what I deserved; profits too are pushed by fate. This is how one should view it!