From Bankruptcy to Millions: The Path of Minimalist Trading In the past, my trading interface was filled with 8 technical indicators and 5 financial pop-ups, resulting in continuous losses. Now, my screen only keeps 1 gray moving average, 2 key price levels, and a 3% stop-loss red line. After discarding 90% of my trading strategies, I finally understood the 5 survival rules of "less is more."
Rule One: Reject Greed and Perfection
During my novice period, I chased after different varieties and cycles of the market day and night, operating on rebar and Shanghai gold in turns, ultimately becoming a 24-hour money-losing machine. I later realized that focusing on one market pattern (trend or range) and locking in a fixed cycle (daily or 4-hour) allows for precise strikes.
Rule Two: Turn Trading into Mechanical Execution
In the past, I constantly monitored various data and indicators, feeling anxious and exhausted. Now, I have transformed into an "automated trader": spending 30 minutes each day to determine the direction, placing orders, closing the software, and only checking discipline execution during the evening review. As Charlie Munger said, patiently waiting for the "sweet spot" is far wiser than blindly swinging the bat.
Rule Three: Simplify Tools, Return to Essentials
I decisively abandoned complex tools like wave theory and quantitative models, using only the 20-day moving average to determine trends, referencing yesterday's highs and lows, and strictly adhering to a 3% mechanical stop-loss. I unexpectedly found that a simple method backtested with Excel is more effective than 80% of intelligent algorithms.
Rule Four: Focus on Practical Skills
No longer indulging in geopolitical analysis or data prediction courses, I turned to cultivating practical skills such as "stop-loss execution," "profit determination," and "adjusting the mindset for consecutive losses." The core of trading has never been profound theory, but the unwavering execution of common sense.
Rule Five: Acknowledge Your Limitations
Learn to calmly miss market opportunities and say "no" to 80% of the fluctuations I don't understand. Just like the wabi-sabi aesthetics of ancient temples in Kyoto, simplicity is beauty. When trading returns to its essence, I finally hear the rhythm of capital flow.
Now, my desktop wallpaper reads: "Futures are not the Olympics, simple repetition can win." Those who mock my singular trading model are still lost in the complex K-line maze, while I have steadily moved towards millions in profit through minimalist trading rules.
