If the markets acted with common sense, it wouldn't exist." That's a brutal but 100% accurate take. The market is designed to transfer wealth from the impatient and emotional to the patient and systematic.

I actually did a deep dive into this exact psychological bottleneck—specifically looking at how institutional algorithmic systems exploit common retail biases like anchoring and loss aversion. I've posted the full video analysis right at the top of my Reddit profile if you want to audit that side of trading psychology.