A truly seasoned trader moves on to do other things after placing a trade. You spot the pattern, enter the trade, set your stop-loss, hit confirm, and close your computer. That’s it. Staring at the screen won’t change the candlesticks; it’ll only mess with your mindset. Any strategy with a positive expectancy will have a random distribution of wins and losses. In other words, whether this trade wins or loses, it’s no longer about your skill the moment you hit confirm. It’s just drawing a card from a deck of probabilities. Winning with a bad hand doesn’t mean you played well, and losing with a good hand doesn’t mean you played poorly. There’s no right or wrong in a single trade—only the stats over 50 trades or more matter. The stop-loss you set is essentially answering one question: At what point are you willing to admit you were wrong? The rest—whether the market goes up or down—is out of your hands. The real skill lies in the preparation before the trade and the review after it. During those few hours in the market, you’re just a spectator.