Why is trading considered a form of cultivation?
1. The market is complex and ever-changing. How to simplify the complicated and find an exit in uncertain market conditions is key to trading.
2. The path of trading involves many pitfalls. Trading must be honed in real markets; only by experiencing trends against you, holding positions, liquidation, and doubling can one truly understand.
3. Trading requires overcoming many barriers. Technical barriers, system barriers, capital management barriers, emotional barriers, psychological barriers, and the integration of knowledge and action barriers. If one does not seek to improve oneself, it is impossible to overcome these barriers.
4. There are gains and losses in trading. It is impossible to capture all market movements; many trading opportunities will certainly be “missed.” The most important aspect of trading is focus—stay attuned to familiar territory and only earn what belongs to you. In a vast sea, only take a ladle full.
5. Consistent execution in trading is difficult. The consistency in trading execution is the hardest; luck will occasionally interfere, and without a certain level of mental fortitude, it is fundamentally impossible to achieve.
Trading behavior reflects the trader; through the myriad of trading appearances, it mirrors the trader's different mindsets: greed, fear, obsession, and regret.
Traders can only seek inward, cultivate the mind, and nurture character to find their true selves; only in this way can they gradually emerge from trading. #Trader's Quotes