At the beginning of this article, I intend to tell a story:
"The young man went to the temple to meet the old monk and said that he was very distressed. The old monk said, if you were put into a dry well ten meters deep, with smooth walls and no spiral ladder, how could you come up? The young man thought for a while , Said that I couldn’t come up. The old monk said that you really couldn’t come up. The young man asked again, what should I do? The old monk said, who taught you to go in!”
It was a humorous joke, used to liven things up, but it seemed to me that there was another meaning to it.
Too much trouble, I found it myself
Anyone who is self-motivated always wants to get things done. If the ability of a thing can be made to the extreme and perfect, then of course it is easy to say, for example, crafts such as carving, there are indeed people who can see the world in a square inch, and regard it as a miracle. Another example is that there are people in Japan who specialize in making sushi and rice. After several lifetimes of research on such things, they finally became gods.
But trading, it's not that type
There are too many uncertainties in the market, and history is always surprisingly similar, but it will not simply repeat itself. Therefore, it is impossible to achieve perfection in every market.
Because the perfect transaction itself is a vague concept.
A wave of market, from low point to high point, assuming there are 100 points, choking 70 points, it should be considered quite good.
But there are still people who are not satisfied, because the 100 points are not straight up, there will be adjustments in the middle, so why not sell at the high point of the band, and buy them back after the adjustment? In this way, a profit of 120 points may be made.
Even so, some people are still dissatisfied-how many positions and funds have you used? If you increase your position, it may already be very remarkable.
However, is this perfect? Knowing such a perfect operation, why not increase the leverage?
After all, chances to change your destiny don't come often!
The transaction is very simple, it is the human heart that makes it complicated
The pursuit of perfection is to add trouble, it will complicate the transaction, make it more difficult, and make it difficult for yourself.
For example, pursuing the highest point and the lowest point is pure nonsense, and the resulting tragedies are too numerous to enumerate, and I don't want to say more.
Several readers I have met recently, more or less have the problem of pursuing perfection and pursuing the ultimate, but there are slight differences.
"For example, A, what he pursues is to "stretch and eat instant noodles", that is, start at a low position, run away after making a profit, buy again after a pullback, and then sell it again. Repeatedly entering and exiting, he never gets tired of it.
B. The pursuit is to "spread", that is, to capture as many trends as possible in different varieties. Gold has done it, but what about silver and crude oil? oops! Rallies so good copper missed out! What a pity.
C, the pursuit is the position, which is similar to the above, I am afraid that the position is small and there is no "profit maximization".
D. Pursue "everyone is drunk and I am sober". Whenever the market is trending, he always wants to go against it. He must be empty at the highest point and win the title of "the smartest in the market", which proves that he is better than everyone else. truth. "
There are many of these, and frankly speaking, some of them are also knots in my heart that I have never been able to get rid of.
Over the past few years, I have learned to be content. Perhaps, as some seniors said, trading should be very easy and natural, and should not be an annoying thing.
Maybe we will say that as long as you can make money, worry is an inevitable price, and it is worth it.
I guess, the way to deal with frets and end up hurting ourselves
Start with giving up perfection and giving up the ultimate.
In fact, almost on the line.
The entry and exit points are not ideal, and that's okay.
It doesn't matter if the trend market on some varieties is missed.
The price has pulled back, and the floating profit has been given up, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter if the position is not heavy enough or the profit is not enough.
All of these things don't matter. .
How to put it, these are all icing on the cake. If you have it, of course it’s good. If you don’t, don’t be depressed.
In fact, as long as it roughly does what the trading system requires us to do, in the long run, there will be no major problems.
For example, if you pursue a heavy position or a full position, the order can make money. When you see that you have made money, you regret not buying enough, so you increase your position. The increase is disproportionate. If there is a loss, the system will forcibly close the position. .
Under heavy positions, a little bit of fluctuation is magnified to the point of life and death. People's spirits are highly tense, dopamine and adrenaline are secreted repeatedly, and sleep can't be peaceful. The brain is secreting various hormones all day long. Are you not tired? The body shifts gears and adjusts under hormones all day long, so you don't get tired? Over time, it will eventually lead to physical lesions. To put it bluntly, it is addiction, and to put it bluntly, it is mental illness.
Other behaviors that pursue perfection will not be analyzed one by one. I wrote an answer before, saying why traders have to accept losses, otherwise it is difficult to continue to make profits. I said:
"Because I can't accept losses from my heart, I will panic when opening a position, especially when I have suffered losses several times in a row before, and I am even more frightened. As a result, the market explodes, so do I or not? Do it for fear of making mistakes, no Do it for fear of missing it... Confused.
Because I can't accept the loss from the heart, I will panic in the face of floating losses, and I will cut the position in advance, and the price will return, so should I do it or not? If you don't cut it, you will lose money, if you cut it, you will be wronged... confused.
Because I can't accept the loss from the heart, I will panic in the face of floating profit-taking, so I stop the profit in advance, and the market continues to go, so should I do it or not? If you don’t chase, you’re afraid you’ll make less money, if you chase, you’re afraid you’ll become a catcher... confused. "
Look, just one unwillingness to accept losses within the plan will lead to various abnormal movements. If other distracting thoughts are superimposed, I don’t know where it will go!
Lao Tzu said: The road is very barren, but people have good paths. Originally, the road is easy to walk, but people's hearts prefer to take shortcuts.
Trend following can be described as a great way, very simple, so simple that only a few lines of code are needed to get a trading system, and there is no way to brag about it.
Whether you can make money or not depends mainly on the market. When the market comes, just like last year, anyone who is honest can make money.
I am relatively conservative in my whole being, what I say and what I write are relatively conservative-I don’t recommend this, I don’t recommend that... Just as I wrote it, I wrote it out of feeling. They are for reference only.
In a word, it is good to make money, and contentment is always happy!
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