Short-term theory is not so much a technology as a literacy. Only when personality type, internal accomplishment and external technology are fully matched can you be brought into a successful and sustainable situation. There are different types of personality, of course, there are different types of accomplishment, and there are naturally different types of technology. There is no comparability between different types, only the same type can be divided into high and low. When choosing their own path, futures traders should not only look at the efficiency of capital growth, but also look for a style that matches their personality and cultivation tendency.

Personally, the core content of short-term self-cultivation mainly includes the following aspects (the following types of self-cultivation need long-term comprehensive training, and only the content of self-cultivation is discussed here, and the training details are discussed in subsequent articles):

1, long-term stable excitement:

Short-term trading must have a moderate sense of excitement: lack of excitement, just like a car with little oil, it will stop before it runs far, or it needs to restart the trading state again and again, and the whole person falls into a stagnant rigidity, watching the market run, but unable to act sensitively. Overexcited trading, like sprinting, may be fast and efficient in a short time, but it will soon weaken your physical strength and nerves, and it is difficult to trade flexibly. Excited for a while and not excited for a while, the result will not be much better than the first two situations. Just like a fast and slow car is prone to carsickness, an unstable mental state can't support frequent transactions, and it's easy to lose your sense of direction and be beaten around.

2, keep the body stable:

Psychology and physical state are closely related, and there is a strong correlation between them. In addition to the influence of psychological state, it is very important for short-term traders to have a moderate sleep time. You can't invest and trade in a state of fatigue or too much sleep. Unless you have completely adapted to the short term, such a person can quickly get your body into shape. There is a simple criterion for whether your physical strength reaches a stable state: do you feel that your body is soft and elastic, neither tired nor stiff, nor full of strength and tension? Are you almost unaware of the existence of any special part of your body, just feeling relaxed and relaxed? Only this physical state can support a long-term day trading that does not depend on prior trend judgment.

Your attention is relaxed, but any changes in the market and environment will be noticed, and you can pay attention to different things at the same time:

Generally speaking, there are only two kinds of people's attention states: either they are very focused but can only pay attention to one thing, or they are equally distracted but sensitive to any observable changes.

The former is a familiar so-called absorbed working state, usually when people have clear goals or concerns, but it is not suitable for short-term trading. Because this state is very easy to make people unable to pay attention to other things because of excessive concentration, and it is also easy to cause physical tension because of excessive concentration, which cannot last for a long time. The most fatal thing is that this kind of attention is too easy to start the human brain, so that you unconsciously start to synchronize with the ideas in your brain, rather than trading in the real market.

The latter is also familiar to everyone. People usually enter this state when there is no clear purpose and goal to pay attention to (such as on the bus). Maybe everyone feels a little surprised: as long as this state does not fall into a semi-sleep state, but stays awake and stable, this is exactly what frequent short-term transactions need. This state turns people into a mirror. Without excessively disturbing and activating the brain and body, they will notice all the small changes in the environment. It looks quiet but most sensitive, which is most suitable for the needs of multi-variety high-frequency short-term trading. But one thing is different from the usual trading state: you notice many things at the same time, but your attention is not scattered, and you are "concentrated" on everything, otherwise you will lose your good action ability.

4, in addition to the different rhythms of the market and various varieties, keep a personal rhythm that is always smooth:

In the process of quotation and trading, it is inevitable for short-term traders to let the rhythm of quotation control their own rhythm, which is very fatal for short-term traders: the changes of futures quotation are often not smooth, and many quotations and bands appear suddenly. You can't expect to be a qualified short-term trader if you can't keep a smooth personal status outside the quotation and can only follow the quotation. The outstanding point of a truly excellent main trader's trading is precisely in this aspect: by controlling the market rhythm, the crowd is introduced into a chaotic psychological rhythm, or a vicious psychological cycle is simply introduced (which will be discussed in detail in the following article), thus leaving enough space for the main trader's own operation.

5. Never remember all the transactions you made (including what you did in the last round):

All your transactions have been forgotten by you, or have never entered your memory, but have passed away after being executed. Trading in memory can easily make you divorced from the current market reality. It seems that most people attach great importance to experience and the memory in experience, and I also attach great importance to it, but the essence of truly valuable experience is only to adapt to the market, not to "update its value in the repetition of history." The market is amorphous, and the value of experience is too limited. It is better to remember some experiences than to be good at forgetting. Off topic, watch TV. If you watch an old movie every once in a while, you always feel as fresh as watching a new movie, but you feel deja vu, so congratulations.

6. Frequent two-way trading and trading results (even if the funds change wildly) can't affect your overall state:

It is one of the basic qualities of short-term trading to achieve "trading is trading, regardless of the result". The trading process affected by the results and operation strength cannot be smooth and uneven, which will make you completely lose the rhythm of trading and naturally lose the benign trading results. As far as the transaction results are concerned, not only the loss will affect you, but also the profit can quickly break your smooth state. Many people can't make progress to a certain extent, often because they can't accept crazy profits (which will be mentioned later).

7, you can have a lot of ideas, but don't let it stay in:

It's almost impossible to be without thoughts. What you have to do is not to let yourself have no thoughts and make yourself unable to trade, but to let your thoughts pass by, whether they have been executed or not. Don't stay in your mind. Whether the idea is right or wrong, the longer you stay, the worse it will be. Even if you don't lose money, the efficiency will be greatly reduced.

Generally speaking, these achievements are transcendental and peaceful. The most difficult thing in short-term is the integration of three seemingly contradictory levels: relatively radical personality, tendency to do nothing and high-frequency directionless operation, which is also the reason why there are so few truly excellent short-term players.