“I took the profit, maybe the loss will turn back...”

It is because of this sentence that many accounts have been wiped out in this market to the extent that gravestones will be written. The end is the same for everyone who cannot protect their gains and cannot cut their losses:

Psychological fatigue + financial collapse.

Being quick to take profits and patient when losing... This is not a strategy. This is a model of emotional collapse. And most traders are not even aware of this.

📊A simple example:

• 10 trades

• 7 of them +50$

• 3 of them -150$

Result: -100$

So it looks like you are winning but you are actually constantly losing.

Let me elaborate:

This behavior is referred to as "negative expectancy" in the literature. Even if the win rate is high, as long as average loss > average gain, the system will not move you forward but backward. That’s why taking profits early and delaying losses is one of the slowest forms of suicide.

Profitable systems do not necessarily have to have a high win rate.

But they do the following:

• Losses are closed before they grow

• Profit potential is allowed to flourish

• Balance between average gain and average loss is maintained

That’s why the issue is not how many times you win, but how much you earn when you win and how much you give when you lose.

Finally, don't forget this sentence:

Limiting profit and letting loss run free is a slow death in this market. And those who die slowly always say goodbye with “I was actually doing well.”