Recently, this kind of stagnant market can be really exhausting. You must control your impulses. Because it neither forces you to liquidate and recognize losses immediately, nor does it allow you to comfortably hold onto valuable assets. You will be constantly worn down, tempted, and make mistakes.

What truly causes capital loss is not the market, but the flaws of human nature:

Greed: chasing after a little increase, wanting to capture every wave, resulting in frequent high buying and low selling.

Jealousy: seeing others catch the hot trends and skyrocket, even if it has already risen several times, you still can't help but follow suit.

Resentment: being stuck without cutting losses, regretting after switching, chasing after increases, always living in the frustration of missing out.

When these emotions stack up, they will ultimately lead you to the same place:

Randomly betting outside your circle of competence.

You start buying coins you don’t understand at all, you trust hot tips from strangers, you FOMO into something you’re not familiar with and don’t know the distribution of positions, and then, through one short-term operation after another, you slowly evaporate your principal.

Therefore, the most important ability at this stage is not trading, but restraint.

Restrain Impulses: Don’t trade out of boredom; a sideways market is not a casino.

Stick to your familiar territory: only buy what you know, something you can’t be more familiar with.

Control Frequency: Trade less, focus on research, wait for the next real structural opportunity to arise.

Only those who can maintain their positions during a grinding market deserve to reap substantial rewards in the main upward trend.