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Each trader has his own demons to exorcise on the journey to becoming a successful professional. Here are several rules that worked for me as I grew from a wild amateur into an erratic semiprofessional and finally into a professional trader. You may change this list to suit your personality.
1. Decide that you are in the market for the long haul--that is, you want to be a trader even 20 years from now.
2. Learn as much as you can. Read and listen to experts, but keep a degree of healthy skepticism about everything. Ask questions, and do not accept experts at their word.
3. Do not get greedy and rush to trade--take your time to learn. The markets will be there with more good opportunities in the months and years ahead.
4. Develop a method for analyzing the market--that is, "If A happens, then B is likely to happen." Markets have many dimensions--use several analytic methods to confirm trades. Test everything on historical data and then in the markets, using real money. Markets keep changing--you need different tools for trading bull and bear markets and transitional periods as well as a method for telling the difference(see the sections on technical analysis).
5. Develop a money management plan. Your first goal must be long-term survival; your second goal, a steady growth of capital; and your third goal, making high profits. Most traders put the third goal first and are unaware that goals 1 and 2 exist(see Chapter10, "Risk Management").
6. Be aware that a trader is the weakest link in any trading system. Go to a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous to learn how to avoid losses or develop yur own method for cutting out impulsive trades.
7. Winners think, feel, and act differently than losers. You must look within yourself, strip away your illusions, and change your old ways of being, thinking, and acting. Change is hard, but if you want to be a professional trader, you have to work on changing your personality.
一、下定决心在市场中浑很长很长时间--从现在开始做20年交易。
二、尽量多学习。向交易专家学习,但要保持一种健康的怀疑精神,不要人云亦云,而是要身体力行地去体会、验证。
三、不要抱着一夜致富的梦想去赌一把交易--化更多的时间去学习。市场永远不关门,好机会有的是。
四、自己发展一种分析市场行情的方法--就是A情况发生了,接着B情况很有可能发生。市场行情是多维的--所以要以不同的分析方法去验证。所有方法都要用历史数据来测试,然后才用真钱去交易。市场是不断变化的--所以你在牛市熊市和相互转变的时期要用不同的方法去交易。
五、自己发展一种资金管理计划。你的第一个目标是在市场中长期生存下去。第二个目标是长期稳定获利。第三个目标才是追求暴利。很多交易员将第三个目标作为首要目标,并漠视前两个目标的存在。
六、要明确一个交易员与任何交易系统都没有必然的联系(作者是不是想说,想靠机械交易系统赚钱是不可能的?)。去参加“戒酒协会”的会议,学习如何避免亏损(作者在前文提到,戒酒与避免巨大亏损的心理过程十分相象)。发展出一种方法,使自己永远不做感情冲动的交易。
七、成功交易员的所思所为与失败交易员的大相径庭。你必需内省,排除幻想,改变旧有的恶习,多学多练。改变是困难的,但是如果你想成为一个专业交易员,你不得不有所改变。
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