Well, that'd be dumb if the market always moved to what you wanted. Sure, if you're part of the only demand of that certain market, it would always go what you want since you're alone, but you're merely a part of the ocean. Everyone has different mindsets in that specific ocean, even if they have the same goal of profiting, that same goal of profiting means that someone else is actually losing money no? And besides,as others have said, leveraging exists and I'd guess that a lot of traders have made a killing out of it (the same could be said for the opposite though).
Market wasn't predictable since from the beginning and its indeed a pain in the ass on seeing the market doesn't really have some movement or simply moving sideways which it is really hard to decide on what position you would make and also not all traders are really that patient enough that's why experience do really matters on these kind of situations.
Whether you do decide to standby still or would make out some moves which isn't really that necessary but its up something you do take.So its a matter of choice but I do
agree on the fact that even myself do really hate up on seeing sideways movement or on consolidation state.