There hasn’t been much operation these days, just 1-2 short-term trades each day. I watched my 【trading review diary】 for three hours this afternoon, and it was quite insightful. I want to share a couple of thoughts.
This Word has been recorded since May 2024, and it has already been a year. The trading review diary contains 100,000 words, but it should originally have been nearly 150,000 words. However, during the review process, 50,000 words were gradually deleted.
The trading problems and unsatisfactory aspects that were previously noted multiple times have been completely corrected, so such content is deleted and summarized into a brief summary.
In a way, the 【trading review diary】 is like the 【error correction book】 from school. The “error correction book” is the most efficient method of learning and improvement for any subject. Friends with similar experiences should understand.
Just like many good students in school don’t flip through heavy stacks of books before a major exam. They just open their small 【error correction book】, quickly review it, finish their revision efficiently and hit the key points.
The 【error correction book】 is also a process of becoming thinner. Initially, it was about persistently and seriously recording, then repeatedly reading and deliberately correcting, and finally simplifying.
The number of questions I can’t answer is decreasing, so the new content is gradually lessening; while the questions I used to get wrong frequently are now no longer mistakes, I can tear off one page after another.
I remember my high school class teacher said that during the evening self-study before the college entrance examination, when she walked around the class and saw someone's error correction book getting thinner, she basically knew that child’s performance.
From another perspective, traders are no different from other professional athletes. Just like any dedicated professional athlete, after each competition, they will seriously review their footage and then record the areas they are dissatisfied with and need to improve. They will focus on these areas in subsequent training to optimize.
From a large tactic or set of skills, to a small action or posture.
—Until they form muscle memory.
Trading is speculation, that’s true. But it is also a “discipline of speculation,” a “sport of speculation.”
If you truly love trading, want to excel at it, and make money from this profession, more time and effort should not be spent on “the bull market is here, let’s take a bold gamble,” but rather in those unremarkable days of little market movement during the extremely boring bear market, with utmost seriousness, day after day, persisting in learning and training.
Let us encourage each other.
