Stock Live Trading P185: The higher the hope, the greater the disappointment.

The world is unpredictable, and the stock market has just rallied like this, hitting new highs day after day.

The defense stocks and precious metals I hold—the precious metals are almost equivalent to shorting the broader market, losing money every day. A little psychological comfort: it's much safer than shorting the market.

This time last year, I was still shorting PLTR and Walmart, along with HOOD, and got beaten up badly on these three stocks.

Those days are gone like smoke. I've learned that the best 'short' for retail investors is holding cash or buying precious metals, which is a kind of major growth. Even if a stock soars to the sky, I won't short it because I don't understand if it could get even crazier. Sentiment is impossible to fight against; this is the brutal lesson I learned from over 10 failed short attempts.

The logic for Lockheed Martin is still there. I think its current level is basically where the pullback should end; it's had six consecutive down weeks. In February, Brother Nan told me to short Lockheed Martin. I analyzed it with Gemini at the time, and Gemini said shorting Lockheed Martin was like a person trying to fight a tank. Unfortunately, now that I'm long on it, it's instead as fragile as paper, crashing with me every day.

How to put it? Is this the wheel of fortune turning, or a shift between offense and defense, or is it 'let the strong be strong'? It seems there's some truth to using classical Chinese philosophy for stock trading.

It's not the wind moving, nor the banner moving, but the mind of the benevolent moving. Now my mind is still. So how can those market manipulators cut my losses?