Trades that can consistently generate orders often look quite dull.

Sometimes you stare at the screen for half a day or even the whole day, and the candlesticks keep moving without triggering your conditions. Market fluctuations happen, others are commenting on the sidelines, but you still don’t act. This is reality—trading is essentially 99% waiting and 1% quick execution.

Most of the time, you're just watching the market, doing nothing. Not placing orders to probe the direction, nor rushing to draw conclusions about the market—just quietly watching the price move where it’s supposed to go. Until the conditions appear, you don’t even need to press a button. It sounds very easy, but in reality, it’s easier to say than to do—and that’s precisely the part that’s most against human nature, and the line that separates beginners from seasoned traders.

When that 1% opportunity actually arrives, you won’t feel much different. No adrenaline rush, no fear. Just a clear certainty: now it’s time to act. That’s it.

But why do some people stay in the market for years and still have mediocre trading results? Technical analysis isn’t the main obstacle; the real issue is that they can’t quit that dopamine rush. Frequent trading, chasing trends, guessing market directions—all these give a feeling of “I’m participating.” But the market never pays for your emotional swings.

So you have to ask yourself: are you here for excitement, or for making money? These two goals are often in conflict. True expert traders often look very boring—because they’ve made earning money stable and monotonous enough.