Do not worry, you will truly step into the ranks of trading masters.
I'm often asked how far I have to go to be a good trader, and my answer is just four words: no worries.
The reason why people are tired is that they worry too much, and the reality backfires again and again.
This morning I criticized a student and said that he kept nodding his head in acceptance like a child who made a mistake.
Here's the thing, last night I sacrificed a special tactic in the group, and gold shouted that I made a short order on the 2522 line, and then gold fell slowly. I have already said that when I entered the market, the whole wave will come out again, and the target will be below 2500 in consideration, but this person's heart is unstable, and he will always come to me once and ask me "do you want to come out". After asking twice in a row, I got impatient and said don't ask, I'll say it in the group, don't stare at the plate now, what's there to stare at, it's not early, go to bed quickly, turn off the operating software now, and look at it tomorrow morning.
And guess what, he said yes verbally, but in private he kept an eye on the market until 12 o'clock before resting, and at half past three in the middle of the night he went to the toilet, opened it again, and then closed the position.
I talked to him about the list in the morning, and he said that he came out when he went to the toilet in the middle of the night last night, and I immediately criticized him, saying that you are so poor in determination, and there is no principle at all. He said that I just couldn't help it, I was panicked when I saw it, and I was panicked if I didn't look at it, and I was afraid that the market would reverse, so I couldn't help it in the middle of the night.
I told him, you are still in the primary school stage of trading, it is better to sharpen more, when you have a list in your hand without worry, when you can sleep peacefully after placing an order, you can be regarded as a connoisseur.
He said how could he get to such a state as soon as possible.
I said it's hard to say, depending on your creation, it may be possible to achieve it in three or five months, or it is possible that you can't achieve it in your lifetime, you give yourself half a year to continue cultivating, and if you can't do it at that time, don't play.
He said goodbye in a gloomy way.
In fact, as a person who has come before, I understand him very well, after all, I have also experienced such a stage, and I have a good understanding of that state. People, who hasn't been young and vigorous, who hasn't panicked, who hasn't been worried. When the south wall hits too much, there will not be so many heart-to-heart thoughts, and people will become numb and indifferent.
A person's maturity is to see the changes in the outside world, look down on it, see through it, and then stop being curious, not entangled, and no longer thinking nonsense. No matter how the outside world changes, eat when you should eat, sleep when you should sleep, make money when you should make money, and let go when you should let go.
I am now trading in such a state: I placed an order, in the face of the profit and loss of the list, the ups and downs of the market, I was unmoved, without any thoughts, sometimes encountered a big market that broke out instantly, or encountered seven or eight consecutive single stop losses, my heart was unwavering. For example, if I place an order at night and do not reach the exit point, when it is time for me to go to bed, I will naturally turn off the trading software, and then go to bed, and sleep peacefully, even if I wake up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet, I don't look at the market.
Even if I have a list in my hand, I don't care about the list, it is just a symbol for me, it is a punch-in job.
For example, my U.S. index strategy is to open an order, set a stop loss, no take profit, and then leave it alone, the next morning at 9 o'clock in the morning to see the results, either the direction is reversed and the system is stopped out, or the direction is right to make a profit. If you stop the loss, you will admit defeat, and if you make a profit, you will reap the harvest.
There is no worry, but to avoid a lot of trouble, but less pain, because I have no worries but let the transaction execute smoothly, and prompt me to execute the transaction more naturally, slowly forming a virtuous circle.
Cold, ruthless, uncaring, and mechanically executed, this is my attitude towards trading over the years, and at the same time, it has also led me to endless loneliness.
Of course, trading is a practice, and I haven't reached the point where I want to be alone, maybe, that's where I want to go.
In the world of masters, there are only opportunities, processes and results, and there are no joys and sorrows of the process.
If you reach such a state, where is the fun of trading?
For me at the moment, the fun is to keep looking for the breaking point, waiting for the black swan, and I am already tired of this and addicted to it.
The positive black swan brings me achievements and pleasure again and again, and the negative black swan, I can only try to avoid and lose less, if one day there is a wave of black swans against the sky I can't avoid, then be buried by it, isn't it better?
As a surfer, are you buried in the waves? Or in a hospital bed?
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Author: Zhao Huagang