[Missed WLFI, missed Plasma, and missed the $3000 Ethereum, do I still have a chance to get rich?]
"If I had known ETH would hit a new high, I should have gone all in at 3000."
"At that time, I thought OKB would pump, but unfortunately, I bought too little."
When we see the price rise, we regret saying, "If only I had bought at a lower point"; when we see the price drop, we lament, "Why didn't I sell at a high point?"
Why do we always regret missed opportunities?
And what happens? We fall into self-blame and anxiety time and again. The next trade either makes us hesitant to act or impulsively chase the highs, making it easier for the market to take advantage of us.
In fact, this is precisely the regret aversion and hindsight bias found in financial psychology.
You always use the outcome to negate the decisions made at the time, forgetting that the market is inherently full of uncertainty.
No one can consistently buy at the lowest point and sell at the highest point.
To escape this psychological trap, you can try three steps:
- Write a trading journal: record the logic at the time, not the outcome.
- Distinguish between decisions and outcomes: correct logic can sometimes lead to bad results; this is a matter of probability.
- Set rules instead of acting randomly: buy in batches, set take-profit and stop-loss orders, and let rules manage your emotions.
Similarly, you don’t need to seize every opportunity to make money; capturing 1-2 big opportunities is enough.
0xSun missed Pnut before catching Trump; the wizard experienced a liquidation of tens of millions of U before the Ordi+Act rise.
What matters is not seizing every opportunity to make money, but improving and growing with each trade, summarizing trading experiences, and enhancing your mindset to ultimately achieve victory.
The market never rewards regret; it only rewards those with discipline.
There will always be opportunities in the market.
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