Today, let’s talk again about “profits and losses stemming from the same source.” My understanding of this concept has evolved over the years, and recently, a quantitative shift has triggered a qualitative change. It’s acceptable to use the idea of “profits and losses stemming from the same source” when evaluating others’ trading paths, but you must never apply it to your own post-trade analysis. Once you do, you waste the opportunity to improve how you preserve your gains—and you’re likely to fall back into the same repetitive rollercoaster pattern. Love and hate may arise from the same cause, but timing changes.