#交易心理

Is a stop-loss the same as admitting defeat?
🔥When I first entered the market, I didn't know what a stop-loss was. After opening a position, I only had the options to manually sell or watch my position get liquidated.
Later, I drew a stop-loss line on the chart, but at the moment the price touched it, I withdrew the order as if electrocuted. I watched helplessly as my losses spread from 1% to 5%, then 10%, until my account was bleeding out. That was the first time I realized I wasn't unable to accept losses; I couldn't accept the mistake-prone version of myself. My defense mechanism kept telling me, "You're not wrong, just hold on a bit longer..." until I finally got liquidated and my account was cut in half.
Then, I learned to accept any mistake, to accept the flawed me, to draw boundaries for everyone and everything, to set stop-loss levels on candlesticks, and to write a mental program that identifies which lines are unmovable—killing my greed, fear, and luck at the stop-loss line.
So, until I saw that I had a complete trading system, I kept good stop-loss practices to give myself more chances to survive in this market.