Stared at the screen for two hours, and the price is still spinning in place.

This kind of sideways market is the most wearing—it won't drop, it won't rise, and both bulls and bears are waiting for the other side to make a mistake first.

Some get anxious, some panic, some start doubting whether they read the direction wrong.

Actually, no need to.

Markets spend 80% of the time consolidating. The real 20% that makes you money often only accounts for 5% of your holding time. The remaining 95% is all waiting—waiting for signals, waiting for breakouts, waiting for the opposing side to run out of patience.

Right now is "waiting" time.

Don't burn your energy on a few candlesticks, and don't waste yourself going back and forth in a trading range. Consolidation hands out bonuses to patient people, not salaries to people with itchy fingers.

Go do whatever you normally do. Check your phone once, the price is still there.

That's good. It means it's not time to move yet.