One of the biggest mistakes I see people make is believing price has to react simply because of how high or low it is. “It has to bounce.” “It has to reject.” The market doesn’t have to do anything. Markets can remain irrational in either direction for longer than most people expect. A bear market is brutal because price doesn’t rally as much as you expect during retests. A bull market is brutal because price rarely gives you the retracement you’re waiting for. In bearish trends, there will always be someone trying to counter the move and target higher prices. The same thing happens during bullish trends, where traders look for ideal pullbacks which rarely occur. Why do you think 90% of people lose money? Because their perception of the market is wrong given the context of the trend. Stop trading based on the belief that something has to happen. That mindset is exactly why traders become exit liquidity in downtrends and liquidity for breakouts in uptrends.