It completely depends on the timing and extent of your enlightenment; the strong achieve enlightenment! It feels a bit metaphysical. If you can understand it, it means you have already achieved enlightenment, and you are likely making money. If you can't understand it, then you probably haven't even touched the door to making money, because your thoughts are just echoes of others, lacking independent thinking.
In trading, you might know everything, but if you still can’t make money, it’s because you haven’t achieved enlightenment and broken the barrier between knowledge and action. Ordinary people in trading rely not on talent, but on diligence and discipline! Control your own time, do what needs to be done, and don’t let external factors change that. Staying up late watching contracts is a sign of lack of discipline.
The process of human enlightenment is divided into several stages:
Animal instincts, self-reflection, controlling emotions, unity of knowledge and action.
Animal instincts: when hungry, eat; when tired, sleep; during mating season, mate. Many people still operate on animal instincts while trading. When they make money, they want to celebrate; when they become wealthy, they want to show off. Seeing attractive people can trigger these instincts, leading to chasing trends or following the crowd. When they see others making money, they want to chase after it. Once problems arise, they can only complain, and they can’t act rationally, relying solely on instinct. Human nature can largely be categorized as animal instinct.
Self-reflection: when I discover I was wrong, I think about why I was wrong and how I should adjust. Ultimately, cultivation is about correcting one's behavior through reflection.
Controlling emotions: self-reflection is not enough. Gradually, you will discover that losing your temper doesn't solve problems, and arguing with others over right and wrong is meaningless. Start accepting the incomplete version of yourself, mastering your emotions, reducing unnecessary internal friction, and becoming increasingly rational in your actions. No longer affected or disturbed by external factors, whether it be mockery, insults, or sarcasm, you focus solely on your goals. Let go of expectations, reinterpret the entire world from a perspective of interests, and your worldview will change.
In this world, true knowledge exchanges for true feelings, sincerity exchanges for trust, and actions become the process of verifying cognition, never mixing in personal emotions and fantasies.
Finally, we arrive at the unity of knowledge and action!
Ordinary people need three steps to achieve enlightenment:
First step: ignore distractions and return to self.
Please, the interference of emotions: are you controlling your emotions, or are your emotions controlling you? In trading, this represents two completely different operations: following the trend and mastering trading. If you can control your emotions, you can easily calm down and enter a meditative state, especially when mistakes occur in trading, where emotional control is crucial.
Second step: be present in the moment.
Let me tell you a story. The master said that after enlightenment, what does it feel like? Chopping wood on the mountain is for fire; the fire is for cooking; the cooking is for living. After enlightenment, chopping wood is just chopping wood, making fire is just making fire, and cooking is just cooking! In trading, the trading system is to buy when to buy and sell when to sell. There's no need to think about what I missed out on by not selling, or how much more I could have made if I sold. Going all-in and fantasizing about getting rich quickly is unnecessary. Trading is simply trading, just trading.
At this step, you will enter a meditative and flow state. Meditation is about closing your eyes and not thinking about anything. Flow is a state where mind and action are one. When trading, it's all about trading, fully immersing yourself in the act of trading, feeling energized and not tired at all.
Third step: see through the essence.
To make big money, a third step is needed. This step has two phases. The first phase is to see a road and not walk it, gathering cause and effect. Everyone does the same things, sees the same things, so why should you be the only one making money? Here we need to talk about not relying on others. Many people like to take advantage, pick up bargains, and are unwilling to think. They do things as they did before, for example, going all-in during the last bull market and getting rich quick. This bull market, however, going all-in on scams led to losses, which is a good example! Not relying here means not even relying on oneself; don't rely on past experiences or your own judgments. Always remember what the instructor said: without investigation, you have no right to speak. Always act in accordance with the situation, accumulate slowly, because with causes there will definitely be effects! The second phase is to strive for extreme simplicity. Simply put, it means to see the laws behind transactions: the policies, the trends, the fundamentals, the international environment, and the demand. Overall, it means to understand the trends. Striving for individual points refers to trading technicals like candlestick patterns and economic data, while striving for extreme simplicity means being compatible upwards and understanding the trends.
If you want to accumulate sufficient wealth, start with enlightenment.
BTB research and training focuses solely on training; everything outside of training is excluded. Just do your trading and make money. Train the students well, allowing them to continuously earn through learning. Stay focused! Have clear goals and do well in your own role.
When trading goes wrong, I will reflect. For those who slander and insult me, I just smile, control my emotions, and reflect mostly on why I failed to achieve unity of knowledge and action, how to correct it, and what knowledge I need to learn to compensate. My goal is to strengthen myself and then pass this on to my students, helping them quickly escape the trap of being 'retail investors' and walk the path of continuous profitability.