The highest level of trading is never about the extreme refinement of technical parameters or the frantic pursuit of profit and loss curves.
When a trader truly sees through the essence of the market, they will instead let go of their obsessions, like an old monk entering meditation—compressing their positions to an almost harsh bottom line,
allowing the trading system to become a compass that navigates through bull and bear markets, waiting for the blooming of time's roses with steadfastness that remains unchanged for ten years.
Those who ultimately stand at the peak as winners have all experienced three moments of soul refining:
Cognitive Awakening: In the darkest moment of margin calls, they realize that the market is never an ATM but a testing ground for human nature. They no longer cling to predicting ups and downs but instead build a "probability moat," making each trade a sacrifice of positive expected value.
System Reconstruction: When technical indicators pile up into a maze, they choose to simplify. Just like the "unarmed technique" of a top swordsman, the trading system has been internalized into an instinct as natural as breathing, with position control precise to three decimal places, yet remaining unmoved when a storm approaches.
Mental Rebirth: In the darkest moments of consecutive stop losses, they learn to reconcile with pain. Just as Buffett held Coca-Cola for thirty years, true traders understand: time is the sharpest weapon, and the anxieties shredded by short-term fluctuations will ultimately find redemption on the curve of compound interest.
This is not a cold game of numbers but a dance between life and the market. When you view the trading system as a belief and treat position control as a form of practice, those fluctuations that once kept you awake at night will eventually transform into elegant waves in your account curve.
Remember: all great trades are a reconciliation between the solitary and time. Those silent figures who diligently refine their systems before dawn will ultimately embrace wealth at dusk.
