The futures market is a place full of temptations, and there seem to be countless opportunities every day. However, opportunities and traps are always twin brothers. Many short-term traders are very busy every day, but the final accounting result is often empty.
Just like the description of "thousands of flowers are dazzling, only two or three flowers are pleasing to the eye", trading opportunities in the market do not always exist, and the trading system or model built by traders according to their own characteristics may not be suitable for every futures product, so it is normal to deviate from the trading plan during trading. However, the losses caused by the trading system are not exactly the same as those caused by human weakness. The former can be constantly corrected through the improvement of skills, while the latter is often more difficult to improve.
The transaction bottleneck is difficult to cross.
After a period of careful research and accumulation of market experience, investors' ability to grasp market opportunities will gradually improve. However, many people have never achieved a real breakthrough. Observing their past, an inevitable fetter is that they always inadvertently repeat past mistakes again and again in busy transactions. Although I wake up after every failure, I often "heal my scars and forget the pain".
Investors who have just entered the market, such as newborn calves, usually like to punch at full speed as soon as they get started, so there will always be gains in trading, whether it is successful experience, failed lessons or unexpected profit gains. However, this practice cannot survive in the futures market for a long time. Stability is the core trading thinking of mature investors. Of course, stability is not low profit, its essence is to reduce abnormal mistakes.
Through continuous study and research, some investors have mature trading technology and perfect fund management strategy. However, if it occurs frequently and repeatedly, it is more irrational errors caused by its own defects, which is hard to say that it is mature.
"A leopard cannot change his spots, but a leopard cannot change his spots." Weaknesses in human nature are really hard to change. Overcoming the shortcomings such as greed, selfishness, vanity, meanness and quick success is precisely the basic quality that a successful person should have. Observing the legendary figures in the market, all of them have experienced repeated tempering in the futures market, finally overcoming the defects of human nature and finally moving towards the road to success.
"Mistakes" are similar year after year.
There are too many investors who have just entered the market and become rich overnight. When choosing a brokerage company, they are keen on the company with the lowest margin or even overdraft. In daily transactions, I am used to Man Cang operation and overdraft operation. Although there are occasional huge profits, it is precisely because of this that I keep cutting meat out. Now I have realized that I made a mistake, but I am lucky to refuse to admit that I am out. As a result, it finally exploded; It is also because of quick success and instant benefit that we hastily closed our positions at a slight profit and missed a great opportunity to seize a wave of general trends.
In fact, no one is perfect, and human weakness is not terrible. The terrible thing is to repeat the investment mistakes induced by these weaknesses, stumble on the same stone several times in the market, and finally be eliminated by the market. No matter how many stories there are in the market, it is an important criterion for investors to be "loved" by the market to reduce abnormal mistakes and reduce the repetition of past mistakes.
After making mistakes, investors can find out their own personality defects and try to correct them; Can learn from mistakes, find out the technical reasons of mistakes and correct solutions, and improve the trading system; Prepare a memo to correct your mistakes, read it often, remind yourself at any time, and study the market carefully. I believe you will gain something in the end.
I don't know who used the word "speculation in futures" first. If carefully tasted, the word "speculation" can be described vividly and subtly. The enthusiasm, excitement, expectation and nervousness of the word "speculation" immediately jumped out of the paper, and it seemed that you could see the strange light flashing in the eyes of "speculators" after they entered the state. However, passion is not all. Serious research and rational operation are the normal conditions for investors to survive for a long time. Mature investors will not trip over the same stone many times.