Focusing on the process means eliminating everything else 🧵
All you need to know are the conditions for clicking and just clicking itself.
How?
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2/6 "Focusing on the process" means "eliminating everything besides the process."
Constantly watching charts without purpose or monitoring P/L during trades shouldn't be part of your process.
"Worrying about results" is not included in your process.
The win or loss of the trade you're about to make has nothing to do with your success.
You don't trade to win the trade right in front of you.
3/6 In chart analysis, you only check if it meets your system's rules, and if entry conditions are met, you just click without thinking.
After that, you only watch the chart to follow predetermined exit rules, and when conditions are met, you just click without thinking.
When making a buy entry, the subsequent click is called a "stop loss" if it's below the entry price, and "taking profit" if it's above - they're just different names for the same action you take.
These names don't matter and aren't your concern.
Stop fixating on names like "win," "loss," "profit-taking," or "stop-loss" - they're all just "exits."
If you set both stop-loss and take-profit orders simultaneously at entry, your job for that trade is finished at that point.
Price will eventually hit one of these orders, but which one it hits doesn't determine how well you did your job.
All that matters is starting trades by clicking according to rules and ending trades by clicking according to rules.
4/6 Your system's long-term results should be thoroughly backtested through a large sample size beforehand.
Risk management and position sizing must be included in the rules from the start.
These are part of your system because they allow you to safely collect sample size over time and utilize probability.
These shouldn't change based on your emotions, drawdowns, or immediate results.
This frees you from immediate results, leaving only the process.
5/6 You need to become an employee who believes in the boss's pre-made plan and follows set rules without worrying about daily sales.
Your job isn't to break the boss's rules.
Don't hold unauthorized sales or change price tags just because there are few customers today.
Follow the boss's instructions every single day.
If you don't follow regulations, you become a risk and will be fired.
Thorough preparation and consistent adherence to it are the two important factors, and they need to be carried out in different modes.
Consider which phase you're in now.
Once you understand which phase has issues, your required actions should become clear.
6/6 When what's decided is clear, and you understand your job is to thoroughly execute it continuously, there's nothing else to think about.
Only the process remains, and you don't need to think about anything else.
You just maintain 100% focus on your job alone.
I explain these concepts in detail in my book, so if you haven't read it yet, please do.
Identity gives us power.
But identity can also be a source of suffering.
So what should we do?
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2/6 Identity can be the root of suffering.
For example, if you see yourself as a highly respectable person, when others treat you otherwise, the gap between your self-image and reality can lead to anger and pain.
If you didn’t hold such an identity from the beginning, even if someone said, “You’re not that smart,” you could laugh it off, saying, “You’re right.”
The gap between the identity you hold and reality becomes a source of suffering.
3/6 On the other hand, if you hold the identity of “someone who can’t put in the effort,” no matter how much you vow to try hard, you can’t make an effort.
Conversely, if you see yourself as a “diligent person who doesn’t skip on thorough preparation,” you’ll be able to push yourself.
Professional athletes often have the identity of, “I am a top athlete who practices every day to improve.”
This identity enables them to train diligently every day.
We tend to align our actions with the identities we hold.
This concept is also introduced in the famous book “Atomic Habits,” and I’ve developed a practical method of applying it, which I’ll share with you here.
Why You Can't Succeed Even When You "Know How to Win" 🧵
There are many traders who know how to win, yet few succeed.
Why?
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2/5 No matter how excellent your "winning method," strategy, or system is, you absolutely cannot succeed if you are immature as a trader.
This is because you hold the wrong belief of placing value on wins and losses, and your emotions will always synchronize with the timeframe of short-term random results, making it impossible to break free and achieve consistency.
3/5 You reflect when you lose, immediately improve your system after consecutive losses, and think you're right when you win.
You only judge based on results, and you're constantly changing your behavior based on results.
This means you're trying to adapt your methods to short-term randomness, so you'll never be able to maintain stable behavior.
Many say "it's about the process, not the results," but they use these words as consolation for losing trades and don't truly act accordingly.
In the end, they prioritize results above all else.
Revenge trading is suicidal, yet some people can't stop doing it.
Here's how to play a game in a different world where the concept of "revenge" doesn't even exist.
You don't even need emotional control to stop revenge trading.
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2/5 Here are the causes of revenge trading:
• Thought processes that place value on winning and losing
• Viewing losses as something negative
• Self-esteem dependent on trading results, feeling defeated
• Misunderstanding that the market can be controlled
• Arrogance that one's judgment is superior to rules that should be followed
• Short-term perspective, prioritizing immediate emotional satisfaction over long-term results
• Not understanding that stop losses also have an edge.
• Lack of understanding of a trader's job
• Lack of trust and understanding in the system
• Lack of understanding of market randomness
• Lack of understanding of risk management importance
• Insufficient practice in building sample size no matter what happens.
3/5 You might think that "inability to control emotions is the cause of revenge trading," but the background that creates these emotions is incorrect thinking and lack of understanding.
While revenge trading is often considered an emotional problem, before attributing everything to emotional control issues, it's necessary to properly acquire the understanding and thought processes needed as a trader.
If you truly have the necessary understanding as a trader, have accumulated the required practice, and sincerely understand that all wins and losses that occur by continuously following rules are necessary to make probability work, the very concept of "revenge" will disappear.
This is because your perception will shift to understand that what causes probability to stop functioning, what truly brings you disadvantage, is not losing itself but rather "you deviating from rules and contaminating your collected sample size with impurities."
It was never about losing being bad - it was about "you" all along.
Many people misunderstand the meaning of "adapting to the market."
Constantly changing strategies or systems to align with market movements contradicts consistency.
So what does it mean to properly adapt to the market?
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2/7 Properly adapting to the market means "adapting by encompassing everything with a large sample size."
This involves the Law of Large Numbers, a core concept in probability that traders must understand.
Today, I’ll explain this without complex terms or calculations, so please read to the end.
It’s critically important.
3/7 Many traders cannot consistently use the same system even for a few months.
They abandon or quickly tweak their system due to losing streaks or drawdowns.
They claim the market has changed, or the system stopped working within just a few months (or even shorter).
Then they believe they need to handle the changing market.
This mindset is incorrect.
The timeframe they’re looking at is far too short.
Properly handling market movements means covering all market movements through a large sample size.
The market's "consistency test" is inevitable.
As a trader, you must continuously demonstrate your qualities to the market through consistency, not wins and losses.
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2/6 Although I was naturally disciplined before I started trading, I struggled to follow trading rules.
This involves instinctive reactions - when you have wrong thought processes and understanding of trading, it triggers instinctive resistance that becomes impossible to fight.
Even if you manage to resist once, trading is a very long process with endless repetition.
If resisting once is so difficult, walking that long road becomes extremely challenging.
Truly great traders don't struggle with consistency.
This is because their fundamental perspective on trading, their view of winning and losing, their understanding of their responsibilities and duties, have been completely transformed through a deep understanding of trading.
3/6 Creating an excellent system as a trader is the first hurdle.
Many people can clear this with effort.
The real challenge is whether you can pass the "consistency test" afterward.
The market tests you through losing streaks and drawdowns, seeing whether these experiences generate doubts and mistrust in you, evaluating your proper mindset, adequate preparation, and qualities as a trader.
This challenge relates to how much of the false belief in "placing value on wins and losses" remains, how well you understand probabilistic thinking, how deeply you comprehend what you're doing, how much you trust statistics, whether you're testing with a reliable sample size, and how well you've eliminated bad habits.
The consistency that top professionals possess is a supreme skill that many cannot understand.
Your consistency is tested during losing streaks and drawdowns.
What do you feel during losing streaks and drawdowns?
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2/6 There are too many excuses in trading that justify not following the rules and compromising consistency.
You should not use losing streaks as a reason to change your system.
In the end, you are changing your actions based on results.
While saying you won't be swayed by results, you're actually prioritizing them above all else and think it's okay to break consistency for the sake of results.
Conditional consistency like "I will keep following the rules as long as I don't have a losing streak" is not called consistency.
The consistency of top professionals is not that fragile.
3/6 Losing streaks are an inevitable part of trading and will always be there.
In trading, losing streaks do not negate your system's edge.
Losing streaks occur as a matter of course and are not worth worrying about.
Rather, you should consider it a problem that you cannot maintain consistency, blame losing streaks, and are easily swayed by results to doubt your edge.
For one year, make up your mind to follow your system.
And build enough trust in your system "beforehand" to be able to do that.
A trader who cannot maintain consistency even for just one year is not a trader.
A trader is an "embodiment" of probabilistic thinking, and the quality of your preparation is reflected in your consistency.