Recently, this kind of stagnant and unchanging market is quite frustrating. You must control your impulses. Because it will neither force you to sell at a loss immediately nor allow you to comfortably hold valuable assets. You will be constantly worn down, tempted, and make mistakes.

What truly causes capital to diminish is not the market but the flaws of human nature:

Greed: Buying in as soon as there’s a slight increase, trying to capture every wave, which leads to frequent high buys and low sells.

Jealousy: Seeing others profit from trending stocks, even if they have already multiplied several times, you still cannot resist following their moves.

Resentment: Not cutting losses when trapped, regretting after switching, chasing after a rise you missed, forever living in the frustration of missed opportunities.

Once these emotions overlap, 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, believing in hot tips from strangers, FOMOing into something you are completely unfamiliar with, not knowing the distribution of shares, and then, through one short-term trade after another, slowly evaporating your capital.

Therefore, the most important ability in this phase is not trading but restraint.

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

Stick to your familiar areas: Only buy what you know, things you know inside and out.

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

Only those who can maintain their positions in a grinding market deserve to reap big profits during a major uptrend.