"Every transaction of 'buying more as prices rise' is essentially not taking place in the trading market, but in trading our self-worth. Increasing our position is not because we have new insights into the market, but because we need greater profits to maintain a grander self-illusion. The market becomes a mirror, and what we are obsessed with is not the profit itself, but that 'unbeatable' version of ourselves in the mirror.\n\nThis is why all advice on trading discipline and systems, while correct, is difficult to truly implement. Because you cannot fix an existential problem with technical solutions. The most ironic thing is: we think we are exchanging money for wealth, but in reality, we are exchanging wealth for an illusory self-identity. From the very beginning of this trade, we were destined to be losers."