27d • General discussion
STRATEGY CHANGE: WHY IT IS SO COMMON
The retail trader’s mind is often reactive rather than process-oriented.
Attention constantly shifts toward whatever has recently moved, worked, or produced excitement. The trader sees another stock exploding, another setup working, another person posting gains, and immediately feels displaced from the “real” opportunity.
This creates a permanent illusion: “The easier money is somewhere else.”
As a result, the trader rarely stays with one approach long enough to develop mastery or statistical confidence. Instead of extracting depth from a single edge, the trader keeps rotating among shallow exposures to many edges.
The process becomes cyclical:
- strategy chosen,
- initial excitement,
- normal losses occur,
- confidence weakens,
- attention shifts elsewhere,
- new strategy discovered,
- hope returns,
- cycle repeats...
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STRATEGY CHANGE: WHY IT IS SO COMMON
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