Recently, I realized I am quite typical: when I’m making quick profits, I sleep as if nothing happened; when I’m experiencing floating losses, I keep wanting to get up and take a look. Honestly, the small gains haven’t even entered my “mental account,” but the losses feel like someone’s reaching into my pocket and taking something out. Even just the numbers on the screen automatically make me think, “I’ve lost something.” What I fear most isn’t the loss itself, but that to cover the losses, I start to act recklessly, get stubborn, and treat my positions as a matter of pride.

These days, someone is talking about rate cut expectations, the US dollar index, how risk assets rise and fall together… It sounds lively, but for me, it all boils down to one sentence: no matter how big the macro narrative is, it can’t hide the anxiety in the middle of the night. Anyway, I now prefer to cut my positions smaller first, so even if I lose, I can see it as normal fluctuations, and I won’t be led around by floating losses. That’s how I’ll do it for now.