In most industries, there is a very true saying:

Hard work will definitely bring rewards.
Studying hard improves grades;
Working hard increases income.
So many people enter the market with the same logic:
As long as I work hard enough, I will definitely make money.
Then they start:
Staring at the screen for over ten hours every day,
Constantly learning various indicators,
Continuously searching for new trading methods.
It looks very diligent.
But the reality is very cruel.
The more people try to trade hard, the more their accounts tend to lose steadily.
The reason is simple.
Trading is not an industry that rewards effort.
It rewards restraint.
The market fluctuates every day,
K-lines change daily.
If you interpret "effort" as constant action, it’s easy to fall into a trap:
You treat all fluctuations as opportunities.
So trading becomes an instinctive reaction.
Seeing a rise, you want to chase,
Seeing a fall, you want to buy the dip,
Seeing sideways movement, you want to do short-term trades.
Every operation seems very reasonable.
But in the long run, you are just continuously consuming yourself in the market.
A truly mature trader gradually understands a very counterintuitive fact:
90% of the time, there are no opportunities in the market.
But most traders cannot accept this.
Because "doing nothing" seems like a waste of time.
So they choose to act.
Keep acting.
Keep trading.
What the market loves most is this kind of diligence.
Because every trade creates friction:
Transaction fees, slippage, judgment errors, emotional interference
As the number of trades keeps increasing,