The mental journey of an ordinary retail investor can survive one by one

talk about money
forex财经

In the process of my self-study, after studying the trading system, fund management and other aspects, I thought I was very mature, and it was time to take the fruits of the market, so I invested in hot trading, but there were results. I have already thought about it, it is very, very bad, too high expectations, excessive trading not only caused serious losses in my account, but also seriously hit my psychology. I even wondered if I am not suitable for trading, but I am not reconciled Give up, life is always like this, it is really too difficult to pick up something and put it down.


After that, I went through a long period of low ebb, struggling between gains and losses every day, and now I feel depressed every time I think about the bitterness.


There are too many accidents in life, and an unintentional chat changed me. One day before the opening of the market, I was sitting in front of the computer. One of my colleagues chatted with me about nothing. He asked me if I had nothing to do today. Thinking there was something on my face, I reached out and touched my own face, my colleague immediately realized that there was something wrong with his question, to express his apology, he patted my shoulder and said: Take it easy, you look nervous.


It was his inadvertent sentence that woke me up, and I realized my problem in an instant-my trading is probably not a problem of level and skill, but a problem of mentality.


So I started to solve the problem, but I found that I had almost no way to start, how difficult it is to get any information in the era without the Internet!


At that time, the wave theory was popular in China, and stockholders all over the country were counting waves. The problems about trading psychology had never been reported in the media, and there were no books about trading psychology in China. Doctors and psychiatrists in mental hospitals can answer my doubts, but because Chinese people traditionally reject psychiatrists, I have no choice, and the choice of mental hospitals is even more ridiculous. A normal person takes the initiative to go to a mental hospital to find a doctor. If you think about the consequences, I probably won't be able to get out.


So I can only go the old way-self-taught, comrades, to find the correct learning method and effective learning means, the road of self-study is too hard, so just read more posts.


I started to buy books. My study scope included psychopathology, psychology, behavior, anthropology, and even the growth and development of the fetus. I also did research, because I wanted to know whether the infant stage of a person has an impact on trading.


This process is depressing, and the books involved are too professional and difficult to read, especially when your family sees that you do not work hard all day long but study with books on psychopathology and abnormal psychology. The skeptical look is really embarrassing, I really want to find a fucking hole to sneak in, hey, traders are really lonely.


I personally think that you don’t need to read all the previous chapters, because you can learn from the market yourself, but the content of this chapter is quite special. Mental activities are unwilling to be comprehended by oneself, so everyone puts this as the most important point.


Trading to a certain level can be said to be an instinctive reaction, but this instinct needs long-term training.


Now I often ask myself, what stage is my current trading level? For this reason, I am often in a daze. In the past, I have always failed, but I have a persistence in my heart, a kind of almost stupid belief. With the support of this belief, I began to look for the road to success, and then I am still constantly struggling. I failed and fell, but every time I got up tenaciously, wiped away the tears that belonged to men but could not shed in my heart, and continued to move forward. I believe that there is light waiting for me ahead.

I, who was once in the depths of darkness, can understand the preciousness of light, the feeling that as long as there is still a glimmer of hope, I must grasp it. If my psychological journey can provide you with a glimmer of light, I will feel comforted in my heart .


In fact, the core thing in the transaction is not the transaction technology, but the execution of the transaction itself.


As long as it can be implemented, no matter how bad the system is, it can eventually become a good system, a system that makes a lot of money.


Unfortunately, there seems to be a natural pursuit of perfection in human nature, so many people will find ways to continuously optimize after they get the system, and finally turn a good system into a bad one.


Psychological problems in trading are often overlooked because they are not easy to be discovered in trading.


Consciously exercising yourself will achieve very good results, and exercising focuses on forming a plan and sticking to it.


After we have been tempered for a long time, we will gradually break the original trading psychology and generate new trading psychology. After a period of time, the old and new trading psychology will form a running-in, and finally achieve a unified psychology.


At this stage, there will be basically no psychological problems in trading. Moreover, the profit of the transaction will gradually stabilize. This is the second goal of the transaction we discussed at the beginning, the pursuit of gradually stable profit.

Copyright reserved to the author

Last updated: 09/05/2023 11:45

862 Upvotes
4 Comments
Add
Original
Related questions
About Us User AgreementPrivacy PolicyRisk DisclosurePartner Program AgreementCommunity Guidelines Help Center Feedback
App Store Android

Risk Disclosure

Trading in financial instruments involves high risks including the risk of losing some, or all, of your investment amount, and may not be suitable for all investors. Any opinions, chats, messages, news, research, analyses, prices, or other information contained on this Website are provided as general market information for educational and entertainment purposes only, and do not constitute investment advice. Opinions, market data, recommendations or any other content is subject to change at any time without notice. Trading.live shall not be liable for any loss or damage which may arise directly or indirectly from use of or reliance on such information.

© 2025 Tradinglive Limited. All Rights Reserved.