Many ancestors in ancient China left immortal ideological essence, such as Sun Tzu's Art of War, Tao Te Ching, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and other literary works, which all contain valuable philosophical thoughts. As traders, perhaps we should shift our focus from trading skills to trading skills.
It is not difficult to find that the growth path in real life coincides with the growth path in trading, which may give us some deeper insights.
The first order: nine times out of ten, I am determined to learn.
Hegel believes that human growth must go through three stages: positive, negative and harmonious. The biggest feature of novice trading is that it is full of passion and yearning for trading. It is considered that trading is a kind of science, a noble profession and the best place for a person to display his talents. The most important thing is to think that the transaction is bright.
Perhaps our education has instilled in us the concept of right and wrong. The dark things are wrong, we are right, and the dark things only happen by accident, so we will make a profit next time. But have you ever thought that if the appearance of dark things is not accidental, it is even inevitable; If our world is not perfect, there is indispensable darkness besides light; If these dark sides are beyond our control, how should we deal with them? At this time, traders have only two words psychologically: hate and resentment. Zhuangzi has a very good saying: If there is no darkness, how can we talk about light? Our education made us misunderstand the world. Darkness and light should be equal, and there should be no distinction between good and bad.
The second stage: standing at thirty
Standing at 30 is the stage of "harmony" and learning to "give up". Before the age of 30, people's habit is to keep adding, thinking that the more they have, the more successful they will be. After the age of 30, people's habit has become constant subtraction, thinking that simplicity is the way to success.
Standing at 30 does not mean that you can continue to make profits in the market, which means that standing at 30 is not a realistic material coordinate. Interestingly, at the age of 30, your financial situation may be the darkest. Maybe the loss continues, and there is no sign of even stopping. It takes a long time for flowers to bloom, and even seeds germinate and grow underground for a long time, which we simply don't notice.
You got it? Standing at 30 is not a sign of successful trading, or even the starting point of profit. Standing at 30 is just the beginning of trading. After constant setbacks, he began to learn to reflect on himself cruelly. At this time, traders dare to face their instincts and think about the idea that they take it for granted when they come out of the womb. Therefore, through the choice of various technologies, you can establish a trading rule that suits you. The so-called "establishment" refers to the establishment of a set of trading ideas and trading rules that belong to you. Of course, these are only the transformation from pursuing trading skills to pursuing trading skills, which only shows that trading skills at that time were in the primary stage. The road ahead is still very long, very long.
The third stage: forty without confusion
As the name implies, not being confused means not being confused about all the phenomena in the market. How can I not be confused? There are only two kinds of people in the world who can't be confused. The first kind of people who find certainty and can analyze and predict the future will not be confused. The second kind of people know that it is impossible to find certainty and the future cannot be analyzed and predicted. Only those who constantly pursue certainty but have never found it will be confused.
The so-called 40-year-old is the promotion from "knowing" to "doing".
At the age of thirty, I knew that I could only get it by giving up, but now I understand that I can enjoy the reward with confidence only if I am willing to pay the price. So from then on, I am no longer confused, no longer pursuing certainty. When we accept the inevitable losses, we mean to accept them willingly. You should be able to make a long-term profit when you reach the level of 40. But this kind of profit may not be large, and even you can't cross the 50% accuracy threshold. We are absolutely intellectually confused about our level, but we are still more or less worried about losing. After all, we are all human beings, right? Fortunately, we beat our minds with reason, not our minds beat our minds. From then on, I began a long process of torturing my mind with rules.
In ancient times, it was difficult for people who wanted to live forever to know the Tao and realize it. It is difficult to realize the Tao, but it is difficult to walk. It's hard to do, but it's hard in the end! It's not easy for people to understand and it's not easy for you to do it. When you reach the stage where you are determined to learn, you can smell the Tao. At the age of thirty, I can already understand Tao. At the age of forty, I will start to do it without confusion. As for whether it can end, that is what we will insist on in the future. At this time, traders are not trading in the market, but trading their own beliefs (systems). Don't think about how the market will go, think about how you should do the right thing.
The fourth order: fifty knows the destiny
Fate is mentality, so how does mentality make fate form this law? Maybe there are some characteristics of chaos theory in this respect. When you are constantly winning, you are also running a process of gathering failure factors in your mind. Simply put, it is the result of the past that affects the mentality, and the mentality affects the result of the future. This forms a positive feedback loop, and naturally forms a "tidal current" effect. At the same time, while the "victory trend" is running, the disadvantages are gathered and sealed. When this kind of malpractice gathers to a certain extent, the turning point appears. This can also be explained from the perspective of motivation psychology.
The greatest feature of Knowing Destiny at Fifty lies in a change. From studying market phenomena and laws to studying one's own heart. If "thirty-year-old" is to shift the main battlefield of trading from psychological needs to market reality, then after "fifty knowing the destiny", it is to shift the main battlefield of trading from the real market to its own inner environment. Next, we have to go through a long search process: who am I? What do I need?
The fifth stage: sixty and easy to smell.
As the name implies, listening means that you can listen to everything and see its value from any angle.
In a sense, this change is to run some problems that have been handed over to "heaven" and choose for yourself. In the stock market, I don't have to consider what the maximum possible average rate of return is in a year. What is the biggest possible loss? What is the possible deviation between theoretical average income and actual income? How high is my correct rate? What is the maximum number of consecutive losses? Because I know that the biggest loss of the stock market is far below my capacity. I know that my system can be profitable if it has positive expected income, no matter how accurate it is. In the futures market, if you don't know how high your correct rate is? What is the maximum number of consecutive losses? I can't answer the simple question of how much my position should weigh.
Perhaps the future futures trading system will no longer be a simple and rigid system. It is a self-adjusting elastic system with simple core, relatively complex specific problems and considering its own situation at that time. It may be the best way to operate a self-regulating chaotic market with a self-regulating elastic system. Traders at the level of "forty without confusion" are not trading in the market, but trading their own beliefs (systems). Now traders are not in the trading market, but in their own (including psychological and financial) environment. At this time, the right or wrong of all problems must be based on the reference of their own environment. Even the actual rate of return on capital is not an absolute standard to measure right or wrong, because the reality is very accidental.
What is the goal I need? The answer is: the market survives for a long time. I believe that as long as I can live in the futures market for 10 years, I won't worry about money anymore. I don't consider the annual profit target for the time being, and stick to the absolute low-risk strategy. I used to love to say that if you can't know the disadvantages of a certain method, then you certainly don't really understand it. Now I want to say that if you can't see the value of a certain method (the meaning of existence), then you are definitely not really mature.
The sixth stage: 70 and do what you want, no more than an instant.
This is the highest level of trading, and the understanding of trading reaches the highest level. What is the ultimate proposition of trading? At this time, what we need to think about may go far beyond the transaction itself. Therefore, we can learn more about ourselves and the world. Simply put, this is the ultimate state of the so-called "unity of human nature", thus jumping out of all rules and constraints. Is the transaction painful or happy? Is the transaction really painful? ! At first, we fought against the market and lived in endless pain because of losses; Later, I learned to keep flexible integration with the market, but from then on, I began to fight against the soul, because of the bondage and suppression of instinct, I lived in endless mental torture. In short, at this time, the mind is no longer an obstacle that needs to be suppressed and restrained, but the best tool. Tools with unlimited energy and strength.
Perhaps the growth of traders is like an interstellar trip, from excitement, passion, longing and longing; To the real life of loneliness, confusion, helplessness and being far away from the crowd; In the end, he returned home in triumph like a hero, returning to the earth and the real society. At this time, the transaction is no longer a transaction, and everything about the transaction will not be felt from the transaction. Perhaps a huge sum of money, coupled with absolute spiritual maturity, can make you have a happy life.
Humans seem to live forever in the contradiction between desire and law. Perhaps all human behaviors are weighed in the gap between the requirements of the mind and the actual laws and regulations. The so-called "heart" is desire, motivation, inspiration, consciousness, thinking, emotion and so on. And "instant" refers to the restrictions of rules, order, law, morality and so on. People will satisfy their desires to the greatest extent. If this desire is not restricted, then the world will be in chaos. This is why there are laws in this world to restrict human behavior. When human beings break the law, they will be punished by society. Failure to obey the law at this time does not conform to the principle of minimum resistance. At this time, there will be a balance and control, so as to find out what to do. Interestingly, the significance of the existence of "instant" lies in the restriction of "heart", and the two are contradictory. Otherwise, there is no "moment". For example, the law does not stipulate that people must get married and have children, because these are the prerequisites for the reproduction of human society, but they do not violate the "heart."
Then the so-called "70 without exceeding the moment" is to combine the two eternal contradictions of "heart" and "moment" into one. That is to say, you can do whatever you want without breaking the rules. The same is true of trading. Traders will do what they want to do to satisfy their desires at first, and what they want to do may have a negative impact on the future. So we must use rules to restrict and constrain our trading behavior. Then the highest level of trading is the combination of mind and rules! At this time, what you want to do and what you should do are one! At this time, there is no constraint, no struggle, no pain, no instinctive rejection. At this time, we are not dealing with rules, beliefs and unsuitable environments, but with our lovely hearts!