In nature, winter goes and spring comes, and flowers bloom and fall, maintaining the development of nature in balance. The same is true of human beings. The brain has been trying to maintain our inner balance. We can imagine this mechanism as a pendulum. Pleasure, happiness and negative pain are the two ends of the pendulum, and the emotional pointer keeps swinging around the center, so we can experience different emotions, and we can restore calm after the emotions subside. Just as the movement of the material world needs energy, the swing of the inner world also needs to consume spiritual energy. If the deflection state is maintained for a long time or the amplitude frequency exceeds the limit, the strength will dissipate and various emotional disorders will appear.
In 2008, I chose to enter the futures market, always proudly claiming that it is a high-end zone different from other financial markets and the top of the pyramid. Mainly because of the flexible trading mechanism of the futures market, there is no cycle of bull-bear shackles, and the market under the margin system is more magnificent. In the time beyond our control, the futures market undoubtedly expanded the living space, gave us opportunities for rapid growth, and also gave us feelings that other industries could not understand. There are not many parts of life that you can control yourself, let alone witness and experience miracles.
My client said with a smile: This is a magical market. Once you go deep into it, you can't give up or adapt to other markets. Because of this, it is extremely difficult to keep emotional balance, so the emotional control of traders largely determines their final results. If traders can maintain a moderate emotional balance, they can undoubtedly save psychological energy; If you spend your energy to maintain your mood, then in real transactions, it is just like climbing a mountain before going to a running race.
Humans have an innate sadness setting-our emotional pendulum will naturally deviate slightly, because we are extremely disgusted with loss, but it is difficult to get the corresponding happiness because of gain. For example, the boss gives you 200 yuan more this month. You may just nod with satisfaction and lose 200 yuan on the way to work. You may have to stamp your feet sadly. This setting allows us to keep in mind every danger at all times and avoid possible pain in harsh environment. This cognitive bias is deeply rooted in our subconscious mind, which accumulates over time and gives you a feeling that life is not easy.
Every trader has heard of the probability judgment of "nine wins and one draw", but if you think deeply, you will find some problems, such as what is the statistical time period of "nine wins and one draw", how many traders are the statistical basis, which varieties are covered and so on. In fact, no one has ever made accurate statistics on this, and everything is inferred by feeling. We have tracked and analyzed the company's customer transactions for 9 months, covering the whole market variety, and found that the profit probability is much higher than the so-called "nine wins and one draw". In our trading career, there will always be gains and losses, and it is precisely because of our extreme aversion to losses that we are deeply impressed by the experience of losses.
Besides, people prefer to spread bad news. Think about our ancestors and tell each other where wild animals appear, which is conducive to the survival and self-protection of the population. If you find a place rich in fruits, you may not tell people everywhere. People are no different now. If you pay a little attention, you will find that the news of losses in the market always travels far and fast, and most traders who can make steady profits are very low-key and never advertise their proud achievements. This is one of the meanings of studying psychology, which helps us to look at ourselves objectively, look at the surroundings, distinguish and eliminate noise, and maintain moderate positive optimism, so as to calibrate the inner scale and obtain a real quiet balance.
In short, trading, like life, always keeps balance in sports. If there were no joys and sorrows, life would not be colorful, but between profit and loss, there would be opportunities for trading. Supported by our ideals and beliefs, we jump in the ebb and flow of the tide, weigh the gains and losses, and carefully explore the tricks. The so-called profit and loss homology is a balance of income risk. At present, no science can accurately predict the price trend, so to some extent, trading is more like an art, and price beauty is a kind of chaos. Although students have different styles, they need to find their own lasting driving force, master a sense of balance and art, regardless of light and heavy control, quantity adjustment and time allocation.