After being in the circle for a long time, you will discover a cruel rule: what truly drags people down is not the harsh market conditions, but that one moment of unwillingness to cut losses.
I have seen too many people whose first trade was actually correct. The direction was right, the logic was sound, yet they encountered a period of fluctuations.
As soon as the price retraced, they began to doubt themselves—"Let's wait a bit longer, it’s just a wash."
But the price did not retreat; instead, it went against them. After adding more, they found it was still moving in the opposite direction and continued to add.
The positions piled up heavier, yet their mentality grew increasingly fragile.
In the end, it was no longer about trading, but about using funds to resist reality.
The most terrifying part is that the person involved remains completely unaware of it.
They say things like "rollover" and "optimize costs,"
but what they think is: "As long as it rebounds, I can be freed."
But the market never moves according to human emotions.
Every additional position you take does not increase your winning rate,
but rather shortens your remaining room for operation.
I have seen too many cases:
Originally a small mistake could have been solved by taking a step back;
instead, they stubbornly kept averaging down, dragging the account into the abyss.
Looking back in the end, the issue was not in the technique,
but in that unspoken thought—"I won’t accept this."
Real veterans, on the contrary, do the opposite.
When the market is wrong, they reduce immediately;
when logic fails, they exit directly;
they would rather earn less than stubbornly hold on.
They understand one truth:
Trading is not about proving you are right, but protecting your ability to continue playing.
Rollover itself is not a sin,
but the mistake is treating it as a "turnaround tool."
Once rollover is for the purpose of breaking even, it has already lost its meaning.
