The reason trading is difficult is that most traders share a common trait, which is that they dare to lose but are afraid to win

The reason trading is difficult is that most traders share a common trait: they are willing to lose but not willing to win.

The market is designed based on the weaknesses of human nature; it is a game that is almost at a stalemate. It's not that there are no methods to profit, but rather that people are weak in their tendency to be willing to lose but not willing to win. This level is truly difficult to overcome.

In your mind, you want to win and fear losing, but in action, you are indeed willing to lose but not willing to win. The thoughts in your mind are correct, but your actions are wrong. Why is it that when your trading direction is wrong, you can bear it continuously, but when you buy in the right direction, you make little profit and exit too soon? Is it that you can't hold onto profitable trades, yet you stubbornly cling to losing ones?

When you buy in the wrong direction, why not decisively stop-loss and exit, then wait for a new opportunity to operate? It's actually because you are unwilling to admit failure and cannot accept the reality of failure. Therefore, when buying in the wrong direction, you are unwilling to stop-loss and exit, instead fantasizing about a market reversal and turning the loss into a win. Because of this fantasy, many people walk the path of being willing to lose.

Sometimes when making a mistake, you might think about the need for stop-loss, which is the right way to solve the problem, but when it comes to actually manually stopping the loss, you can't bear the pain in your heart and find it very hard to execute.
Many people actually reach a breaking point in their mentality and can only stop-loss when they can no longer endure it. Before placing an order, they don't want to lose, but when they truly do lose, fantasies emerge, and they become able to bear the loss.