pareto principle applies—this rally is 1 of only ~7 meaningful rallies in the past 2.5 years if you’re giving up on it because things got choppy for a bit: you are diagnosed with paperhand-syndrome, and likely did the same thing the other 6 meaningful rallies. run it back.

gotta understand how crippling this mindset is—unable to believe in strength you spend 100% of your time waiting for the 20% of the time that will account for 80% of your wealth but then apply methodologies that are best applied during the 80% of time in the market where things refused to run hard so, when the market is downtrending / choppy, you are fully locked in and achieving insignificant results (or even drawdown) and when the fruitful opportunities come around, your mind is handicapped to think linearly; got accustomed to trading the regimes that account for a majority of the market environment—not the regime that will reward you the most this mindset plagues you. touch grass most of the time; lock in when it matters.

inb4 someone replies to this and says: ‘okay but I wish you would’ve said this a month ago’ … I did.