The market cannot be defeated, but you can keep up with events and be flexible and accept the continuous slaps from it. There is no point in fighting the market because it is a losing battle and the market will defeat you over and over again because it was designed to trade against you, against the self, human emotions and against your analysis.
I have reached the conviction that no matter how hard you try and do and after you have reached the maximum potential, you will not be able to predict more than 35% of the market movement. We can predict the general trends and paths and we can determine when is the best time to buy and sell in the long term, but if you enter a war with the market to catch all its movements, you are condemning yourself to loss.
The war with the market is a losing battle