I first had a vague sense of “enlightenment” at the end of 2025.

But in this post, I want to share more about the changes in “mindset” rather than trading techniques.
More specifically, it’s about the control of “trading psychology” and the deep-rooted flaws of human nature—how they can be transformed and reborn.

Like every friend who has endured the hardships of trading, what has repeatedly tormented and troubled me from early, mid, to even later stages is no longer technical improvement, but my constant losses to my own emotions, to the arrogance, greed, impatience, and unease within human nature.

My trading review logs have nearly 200,000 words, but as I kept writing, I realized that while technical issues are being continuously corrected, the problems rooted in human nature keep repeating and persistently occur again and again.

So one day, I decided to condense and summarize them. Every morning upon waking, I write them out by hand three times; at noon, three times; and before bed, three times again. Each time I copy, I tell myself:
Embed them deep into your brain’s grooves, to form muscle memory and create a direct reflex of logical thinking.

For example: Maintain patience, learn to wait—that is the most valuable quality. When you don’t understand the market, stay in cash until you understand it and then take action.
In nature, all the fiercest predators exhibit the utmost patience in their stalking.

For example: Don’t chase after long positions with a fish tail, or short pos