Nobody warns you about this part.
Not the loss.
The quiet after it, the screen goes flat, the candles keep moving.
And you sit there replaying the same second again and again, if I had exited there, If I hadn’t moved the stop, if I had just followed the plan, you didn’t ignore the rules,you adjusted them, that’s how it always starts, asmall exception, areasonable delay ,adecision that feels harmless in the moment, the market doesn’t react, so you think it’s fine, until later, losses don’t feel like punishment, they feel like permission until they compound, you weren’t wrong about direction, you were wrong about yourself, wrong about how long you could stay disciplined, when hope started sounding smarter than logic, that’s the truth nobody posts, trading isn’t about finding better entries, it’s about obeying boring rules, when your mind is screaming for relief, the market doesn’t care if you’re tired, it doesn’t care if you almost exited, it only respects what you actually do, most accounts don’t blow up, they slowly forgive themselves to death.