The Truth About Holding Through Trades: Bodhisattvas Fear Causes, Ordinary People Fear Results

I dare say, among 100 traders, 100 have held through trades.
It's not that your skills are lacking; it's your mindset controlling you.

You open a long position, make a small profit, and don’t exit. Then it starts to fall.
You think: Add to the position, lower the average price.
Once obsession kicks in, you’re already losing half.

5% position → add until 20% → add again until 30%.
The more you add, the more it drops; the more it drops, the harder it is to cut.
Losing 30% and not wanting to cut, losing 50% and still not wanting to cut, losing 70% and you just give up:
“Anyway, it’s like this, if it blows up, it blows up.”

And what happens?
It quickly returns to your average price, and a single spike causes a margin call.
After the liquidation, it pulls back again.
Familiar? This is the dead cycle for most people.

There’s an even worse scenario:
You set a stop-loss, get stopped out, then you remove the stop-loss.
You wait for a rebound, but what you get is a spike that takes you out immediately.

All the roots of holding through trades and margin calls are not in the market; they are in yourself.

Here’s a piece of advice:
Bodhisattvas fear causes, ordinary people fear results.

Bodhisattvas fear planting bad causes,
Ordinary people only fear eating bad fruits.

You fear stop-loss, fear losses, fear margin calls,
but you never fear:
Heavy positions, adding to positions, removing stop-losses, betting on news, holding against the trend.

In trading, think about risk first, then think about profit.
If the market is not worth trading, don’t trade;
If a trade can go either way, then don’t take it.

Don’t regret a few hundred points or a thousand points of profit.
If you can reliably catch the technical setup, why gamble on news or emotions?
Opportunities without cost are not worth missing.

It’s like dating:
If you’re unsure, don’t date;
If it’s non-negotiable, then take it seriously.
Trading is the same.

Control the “causes,” and you won’t fear the “results.”
Don’t hold through trades, don’t add to positions, don’t gamble your life,
and you’ve already won over 90% of people. $BTC ‌$ETH ‌