I first had a vague sense of “enlightenment” by the end of 2025.

But in this post, I want to share more about the changes in “mindset” rather than trading techniques.
Specifically, it’s about how I control “trading psychology” and the deep-rooted flaws of human nature—how these have transformed me fundamentally.

Like every friend who has endured the hardships of trading, what has continuously tormented and troubled me from early, mid, to late stages is no longer technical issues, but my repeated losses to my own emotions, to the arrogance, greed, impatience, and restlessness within human nature.

My trading review logs have nearly 200,000 words, but over time I realized that while technical problems are being continuously corrected, the issues rooted in human nature keep recurring and stubbornly repeating.

So one day, I decided to condense and summarize them. Every morning upon waking, I write them out by hand three times; at noon, three times; and before bed, three times again. Each time I copy, I tell myself:
Embed them deep into your brain’s grooves, to form muscle memory and conditioned reflexes of straight-line thinking.

For example: Maintain patience, learn to wait—that is the most valuable quality. When you don’t understand the market, stay in cash until you understand it before making a move.
In nature, all the fiercest predators exhibit the utmost patience in their stalking.

For example: Don’t chase after long positions with a fish tail, or short positions with a fish tail. Leave the fish tail for the greedy cats—“Curiosity kills the cat.”

For example: After consecutive large profits, it’s even more important to stay calm and restrained. Never be arrogant or overconfident—“Chase after wins.” At this point, the market usually won’t reward your arrogance again, but will teach you the lesson of “overconfidence leads to defeat,” making you experience a retreat from euphoria to despair.

For example: When missing out on a trend, don’t act against the trend due to “loss aversion.” Admit your mistakes, accept your errors. Calm yourself, look for retracement opportunities, and enter with small positions. Earning less is still earning; not losing is still earning.

For example: Never adopt a “perfectionist” mindset—“Jumping into promising trend trades too early,” or “Positioning too small on confirmed trades”—these are excessive self-criticism. Besides causing unnecessary anxiety and disturbing your emotions, they serve no other purpose.
Always remember: The highest and lowest points on the candlestick chart are there for you to observe, not for you to achieve.

For example: After a series of significant losses and sharp retracements, the most important thing is to maintain a calm heart. If you can’t calm down, leave immediately and block all “trading environments.”
Never have the mentality of wanting to quickly recover everything in one shot. Under this mindset, you’re no different from a gambler at the table who keeps betting from the winning streak to the losing streak. Even the most seasoned traders can unintentionally distort their operations—disregarding discipline, magnifying leverage, creating illusions—until they fall into the abyss and finally wake up.

These are some of the parts I have repeatedly copied over many long days.

If you ask me, on the day I felt I “enlightened,” what was the “mindset” like?
It was that from that day onward, whenever these “emotions” and “thoughts” arise, my brain instinctively, within one minute, forms a reverse straight-line thinking reflex, quickly reminding and guiding me back to a state of calm, rationality, and restraint.

How can I describe that feeling?
It’s like my past self was the one doing the trading. The later me is the one watching “me” trade.