How to get well with Risk-to-reward optimization
As someone who has traded long enough to understand concepts like risk-to-reward optimization, trade distribution, and probability edges, why do I still have difficulty holding my winning trades to their intended targets even when all confluences line up—such as a clean break of structure, strong volume during the liquidity sweep, clear continuation signals from the moving average alignment, and a roadmap toward the next unmitigated supply or demand zone—because whenever the trade moves into profit and approaches a partial target I start doubting whether the move has enough momentum to reach my final take-profit, so I either close early or tighten my stop excessively, which often results in being wicked out during a normal retracement before price continues to the exact level I marked days earlier, leaving me with frustration that I am consistently sabotaging the profitability of my own edge.
I want to understand how more seasoned traders manage their psychology around holding runners, trusting their system's statistics, and allowing volatility to play out without panicking every time price pulls back by ten or fifteen pips in the middle of a trending cycle.