Why We Misframe Trading

Most people get caught in a linguistic trap around trading. The word itself pulls focus to the wrong place—makes you think the transaction is what matters. But here's the thing: that trade you just executed? It's not the actual goal. It's the tool.

What you're really after is a position. A particular exposure, a specific market stance. The transaction is just the mechanism, the vehicle that gets you there. Two completely different levels of abstraction, yet we collapse them into one word.

Once you reframe it that way, everything shifts. You stop obsessing over the trade and start thinking about what the trade accomplishes. Position strategy beats transaction obsession every single time.