2026-01-05 22:30:16

SHT Trading Diary: Not Every Trade Is Sweet

This is the true picture of trading. Winning feels great, losing hurts. What's the difference? Some days you make a quick profit, while on others you hit a stop-loss in the opposite direction.

What’s the most frustrating? A single loss can ruin your mood for several days, even if in the long run, your wins and profits have already made up for it. In this series of trades, the overall profit is still positive, but emotions explode with each individual loss.

The most difficult moments are always when your defenses break. But looking back, these experiences are just part of the trading journey. Wins and losses alternate, emotions fluctuate, and then you keep moving forward.

Keep going.

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ChainMelonWatcher

· 01-08 16:25

A single loss can really ruin the mood for the entire week, even though I know that long-term gains are positive, it's still pointless. That hurts, this is the daily life of a trader. Exactly, just have to keep going, there's no other way. After losing a few trades, I start to doubt life, but this wave of trades actually has a positive return... it's just exhausting. The hardest moment is when you stop the loss, but thinking about it carefully, isn't this just the game rules?

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SleepTrader

· 01-06 21:47

A single liquidation can truly ruin a week's mood; no matter how much profit you make, it can't save that moment.

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not_your_keys

· 01-05 22:59

That loss really can ruin your good mood for the entire month, it's just ridiculous. --- To put it simply, trading is about repeatedly getting slapped in the face and then getting back up again, cycle after cycle. --- One loss can feel as devastating as earning from ten wins; who hasn't gone through this? --- The most heartbreaking part is knowing that the long-term returns are positive, but in that moment, you just want to smash your phone, really. --- I've been so frustrated that I haven't recovered yet, but I have to keep going. --- Sometimes I feel it's not that trading is difficult, but that the toughest part is the mindset.

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LiquiditySurfer

· 01-05 22:55

Basically, it's a mindset issue. Getting upset over a loss for half a day, but not feeling as happy when you make a profit. You need to work on your mental resilience.

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TaxEvader

· 01-05 22:52

Ha, a loss can ruin your mood for several days, this is really too real. Sometimes you just want to smash the screen. --- Long-term profit, short-term mindset collapse, this is probably the biggest enemy. --- Keep moving forward after breaking the defense, this statement is very absolute. That's just how it is. --- Every time I think I can make steady profits, but as soon as one trade blows up, everything is ruined, haha. --- Emotional outburst but the account is still in positive territory, this is the absurdity of trading. --- It's hard to bear, winning for a month can be destroyed by a single stop-loss.

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NFTArtisanHQ

· 01-05 22:42

tbh the emotional volatility here is basically deconstructing the whole "rational actor" paradigm... like you're literally experiencing what happens when market mechanics collide with human psychology as a lived phenomenon. the aesthetic of loss hits different than the mathematics of it, y'know

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