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Do you truly understand your trading logic?
Stop blaming technical analysis or macroeconomic conditions. The repeated "liquidity" being harvested is not the problem with the market, but with your psychological ledger.
First, observe this phenomenon: when your account shows a floating profit of 10%, you are extremely nervous, fearing that the profits will disappear, so you immediately cut your position to lock in gains. But then you see the market continue to surge. Conversely, when your account shows a floating loss of 30%, you become calm. You close the app and comfort yourself by saying, "As long as I don't sell, I haven't lost anything."
This is not good discipline. From a cognitive science perspective, this is systemic self-deception.
Nobel laureate in Economics Daniel Kahneman pointed out in "Thinking, Fast and Slow" that your brain, in order to maintain psychological balance, sets up a "cheating account" for itself.
Your mind actually keeps two sets of books: one is the real account—the actual cash used for groceries, rent, etc.; the other is the psychological account—your holdings, which you default to defining as "game tokens." That’s why losing 100 yuan in cash can upset you all day, but watching tens of thousands of yuan evaporate on the screen can leave you completely calm. On a psychological level, this money has long been downgraded in your mind.
When your holdings incur a loss, your brain activates a separation mechanism: as long as you don’t close the position, this loss is just pixels on the screen, not a "real" loss. You deceive yourself into thinking that a rebound will come, but in reality, you are being completely trapped by your psychological account.