The Path of Trading: A Lonely Practice
In the vast ocean of financial trading, every trader is the captain steering their own ship. Trading, seemingly a simple buying and selling operation, is in fact a journey into a hellish practice.
Those who succeed in trading fall into two categories. One is the person pushed to the brink by life, who bears the weight of pressure and expectations, struggling to paddle through the turbulent waves of the market, trying to carve out a new territory for themselves and their families. Desperation grants them the courage to burn their boats, allowing them to move forward fearlessly in trading. The other is the purely focused individual, who is undistracted and pours all their energy and passion into trading. They are immersed in the fluctuations of candlestick charts and data, unaffected by the clamor of the outside world, exploring the mysteries of the market with a pure love and focus for trading.
This path of trading is accompanied by loneliness like a shadow. Without external support, every decision must be pondered alone. Pain, doubt, and struggle often accompany them, with the fluctuations of account funds resembling a roller coaster; each drawdown feels like a heavy blow, striking hard on fragile nerves, pulling one into a vortex of self-doubt. Hope and despair tug at each other throughout the journey of trading, sometimes revealing a glimpse of dawn, and other times casting one into the dark abyss.
However, it is precisely in such tempering that trading becomes a contest with oneself. It tests not only the trader's technical wisdom, whether they can accurately analyze market trends and seize trading opportunities; it also tests the weaknesses of human nature, whether they can overcome greed and fear, achieving rational trading. On this thorny path, only a few can endure the long night and find inner balance.
Ultimately, trading is a game for a very few; it is cruel yet captivating. Those traders who hold steadfast in the storm are like twinkling stars in the night sky, solitary yet shining with a unique brilliance. May every person who embarks on the path of trading be able to hold on to their original intention in this lonely practice and become one of the few who can ultimately witness the beautiful scenery at the finish line.