Your Emotions Can’t Trade This System: Trend Following Part 5

Volatility. Discipline. Memory. That’s the real edge — not the signal.

Everyone wants to be systematic. Few are built to stay that way.

Most traders say they want to follow price. They say they want to ignore headlines, avoid opinions, and just ride the trend.

Then the system underperforms. The cycle shifts. A few bad signals roll in. And the flinch happens.

This is where most people abandon what was working. Not because the …