The reason I'm able to perfectly align with my plans and trades is because I've realized this: When you trade with anxiety, anger, or a tight stomach, the problem isn't the market, but that you're trying to force something that doesn't exist. This means you're over-risking, taking on more risk than you can handle, and deep down you're not truly prepared to accept losses. When your risk management is robust and reliable, these emotions don't arise. Trades trigger stop-loss? That's part of trading. Prices move against you? That's perfectly normal. You remain calm because your trade size doesn't threaten your capital or your clarity of thought. But if you find yourself tense, frustrated, or agitated, it means you're trying to force the market to prove you right. When you become too fixated on your own ideas, you start adjusting stop-loss levels, increasing trade size to "make up" losses, or entering trades without a plan, and that's where everything starts to fall apart. The market shouldn't shake your emotional balance. If you waver, it clearly indicates a problem with your risk management and that your perspective is too rigid. Excellent traders sense unease before any anomalies appear on the charts. They adjust their position size, risk tolerance, and trading mindset before pressing the "buy" or "sell" button.