Technical analysis by soda8888 about Symbol BTC on 9/2/2025

A trader frames an idea: BTC Daily Uptrend Looking for reasons to frame a low risk idea for a long, wanting to get into uptrend resumption Drops down to the 4hr Notices buyers coming back … or at the minimum the sellers pause Enters with a tight stop for a healthy return to risk ratio Stop set. Risk defined. Plan in place. Price goes against Trader shifts the stop down What is going on here? It’s all too easy to do. Many of us have been here before. Stop in place. Target set. Everything mapped. Then the market nudges against you … You might tell yourself “this is just ‘noise’”. You convince yourself that ‘they’ are just going to pick you off. and suddenly you’re “adjusting.” Move the stop just a little. Pull the target closer. Bend the rules you swore you’d follow. And it feels ‘right’ in the moment. Like you’re managing risk. But what’s happening here is that You are attempting to control your own discomfort. And in so doing - you enter the slippery slide of losing self control. It’s subtle but it starts like this. If the trade works out - you might feel justified in having moved your stop and therein starts a pattern of rule breaking. If the trade does not work out - you might beat yourself up and undermine confidence in yourself and your process 🧠 A simple thing that might help guard against this: Before the trade, write down the one level you will respect. Write it in a journal. Annotate it on the chart. Use the TradingView long position / short position tool. Even saying it out loud locks it in. That tiny ritual makes it much harder to justify shifting things mid-trade. The market will do what it does. The only thing you truly control is whether you keep your word to yourself. Commit to the stop when you commit to the trade Live to trade another day.