This text is written for brothers in a period of confusion. Many people believe that successful trading is about being quick to react, smart, skilled, and having a high win rate. Actually, I am also a fool. To be frank: I don't trade based on intelligence, but rather on enduring persistence.

To be honest, I am not a particularly smart person.
I am neither the type who can instantly grasp the market at a glance nor someone who learns quickly.
In fact, when I first entered the industry, I made nearly all the common mistakes everyone makes, including frequent trading, heavy bets, chasing prices, and not setting stop-losses, etc. Many people think it's all about persistence, but in reality, it's just toughing it out.

01. Endure the 'Cognitive Anxiety Period'

When I first entered the circle in 2019, I thought that losses were due to insufficient skills, so I frantically read books, learned indicators, searched for courses, studying everything from wave theory, Bollinger Bands, candlestick patterns, moving averages, to Gann charts, I learned whatever was popular.

However, as I learned more and more, my mind became increasingly chaotic, because I often encountered conflicting indicators and signals, and also faced clashes of different people and trading philosophies.

Since I was just starting out, I kept learning, testing, and switching systems, which made me more and more confused.

Later, I realized that this wasn't a technical problem; it was cognitive anxiety. You know too much, but are unclear on how to use it; you've seen too many things, but haven't established your own judgment framework. Therefore, everything I learned at that time was just a pile of garbage.

That period was truly the darkest moment of my life, because through one failed strategy after another, I began to deeply doubt myself, wondering if I was too stupid. At that time, social media wasn't as developed, and there was no one to guide you; it was really hard to get out of a dead end.

Later, after reading many books, such as 'Trend Trading Method' and 'The Clear Realm', I did a lot of reviews on various trading methods inside. I realized that I didn't need to receive so much 'noise'; I only needed a few indicators, one system, to trade a few currencies, and focus on one type of market.

I began to eliminate useless tools and kept only the core indicators. I shifted from pursuing 'knowing more' to 'understanding clearly', which was a painful transformation, but necessary.

After simplifying things, I could see many trading truths clearly, and finally found my own path.

If you don't endure this cognitive anxiety, you will forever wander in switching systems, changing directions, and altering strategies, and trading will surely stagnate.
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