Why do 90% of traders ultimately become cannon fodder?
The root cause is not poor technology, but rather that they have never grasped the underlying survival laws of trading.
The first lesson of trading is never about teaching you how to make money, but rather how to survive. Holding a hundred thousand in full margin, even a small fluctuation in the market can completely liquidate you.
Professional traders would never be this reckless. For them, the first step in trading is setting a stop loss, and the second step is executing that stop loss with iron discipline— the day discipline fails is the day their trading career ends. There are always those who believe in being “bold”, relying on leverage to chase after huge profits; in my view, this is not courage at all, but rather a gamble with their trading future in a joke with no chance of winning. True experts always confine risk within what they can bear, and then, through the accumulation of small wins, step by step, they move towards long-term profitability.
This is the harsh truth of the trading market: temporary profits are meaningless; being able to survive through the fluctuations of the market is the real skill.
Most people fail because they mistakenly take technology as the core. But technology is something that can be replicated; no matter who teaches it, the core will hardly differ. What truly distinguishes traders is the person themselves— it is the discipline ingrained in their bones, the execution power to follow through on what they say, and the perseverance to force themselves to stick to those “things they don’t want to do but must do” day after day.
Have you reviewed your trades according to plan today? Have you taken the time to read two pages of trading books? Have you resisted those seemingly tempting ineffective opportunities? If you don’t even have this basic level of execution, how can you expect to stand firm in the ruthless trading market?
The market never rewards clever tricks; it only favors cold-blooded persistence. To endure what others cannot in solitude, to withstand what others cannot in drawdowns, is how you gain the profits that are forever out of reach for others.
Human nature is greedy for speed; you must learn to slow down. Human nature tends to evade; you must face problems head-on. Human nature always wants to gamble; you must firmly hold onto the stop loss bottom line.
The trading market has never been anyone's treasury, but rather a battlefield without gunpowder. Only by managing risk can one survive; only by surviving can one slowly win. $ETH #加密市场观察
