Market pressure and emotional stress are two different things.

The real pressure comes from these: oversized positions, entering too early, being trapped, stop-loss levels too far away, liquidity exhaustion, volatility exceeding tolerance—these are the true pressures traders feel.

Conversely? The chaos in life is another matter.

Many people confuse the two. They mix external troubles with market pressure, resulting in poor trading judgments. In fact, as long as the position sizing is appropriate and risk is controllable, even if life is miserable, the pressure on the trading chart can be endured. The reverse is also true—no matter how good your mindset, if your position is oversized, entered too early, and too risky, it will still collapse.

So ultimately, the essence of pressure is the mismatch between your position allocation and market liquidity.