At first glance, this question seems quite Versailles, but after some thought, I decided to give a serious answer. This is not only for friends who have already achieved stable profits but also for those who find trading tedious and lonely. I would like to share my own insights.
In fact, friends who have been trading for many years should all have the same feeling. Trading is like a job for us, and all jobs in the world can become tedious and even tiresome after a long time.
I am in my forties this year, and my peers around me have all made achievements in their respective fields. However, when we get together, without exception, we all complain about our dissatisfaction with work. But if you really ask them to resign, or give up their business, or let them slack off and not take it seriously, they can't do it.
This is also similar to my attitude towards trading. While I am tired of executing the trading system day after day, tired of having to fight against my own human nature every day, and tired of facing a computer and my lonely self, I have never been careless in trading. Once I enter the trading state, I become serious and rigorous, with a high level of concentration.
Over the years of trading, I have experienced various risk events, market changes, and even black swan events many times. The early passion for trading has been worn away. Trading is now as natural and ordinary to me as eating and sleeping, and it has become an indispensable part of my life.
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Let me talk about how I deal with this tedious life.
1: Exercise.
Trading, especially full-time trading, will definitely involve sitting in front of a computer for a long time because it requires high concentration. Sometimes time flies by, and before you know it, the day is over. Therefore, exercise is very important and very helpful for trading.
In the early days, I would run 10 kilometers by the river every day. Now, I mainly go to the gym, where I spend about two hours a day, working out until I am sweating profusely. This is very stress-relieving.
When trading, there will definitely be a lot of mental stress because your emotions will always fluctuate with the market and the changes in your account. This is a phenomenon that you will still have no matter how many years you have been trading, and it is due to human nature. When you have some mental pressure every day, you very much need an outlet, and exercise is the best way.1: Clearing the mind during exercise, I now even reflect on my past trading behaviors during exercise, what mistakes I made, whether they can be improved, and many traders have a completely irregular schedule, day and night reversed, while exercise can help us adjust our routine, sleep better at night, and develop a habit of self-discipline, which is also very helpful for trading.
2: Reading.
In fact, for the trading industry, reading, thinking, summarizing, and reflecting are really too important.
Too many people simply lack the habit of thinking, so they only indulge their desires in trading over and over again based on instinct, and fail and lose money time and time again.
Trading is a practice, and everyone is on the road. Many people will have confusion, when you encounter failure and loss, and lose your direction, reading can help us find the answers, find the right path.
I have always felt that books are the most cost-effective investment, a person summarizes the essence of his life in a small book, we can get the summary of a lifetime for a few tens of dollars, it is simply the most worthwhile investment in the world.
When I was losing money in the early stage, I read a whole bookshelf of books, in these books, I saw my own shadow, reflected on past trading experiences and behaviors, and I gradually found the answers I wanted.
There are some answers in life that others can't give you, but you can find them yourself.
3: Try to record and share.
I started writing in the early stage, also in order to share my own experiences, to find some like-minded people to communicate and exchange. Moreover, writing is also a record, I will review the trading methods of the past, the principles of trading, and summarize and summarize the trading system again.When writing, I possess a bird's-eye view that allows me to look back on my past, observe the transactional behaviors of everyone, and even re-examine the market from a third-party perspective. This elevated viewpoint enables me to see all issues and the essence of transactions more clearly.
Thus, recording and sharing are also very effective ways to alleviate loneliness and aid in my thinking.
In summary, by reducing the time spent on watching mobile phone videos and increasing the time for reading and contemplation, you can help yourself to calm down in this restless world, summarize more meaningful things, and it will also help you to perform better and better in transactions.
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