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Finding "A-Trades" and Managing Them (Part 1)*
July 22, 2018, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Every private trader has to handle two tasks. First, you need to analyze markets to find opportunities. Next, you need to enter, manage, and exit trades. These jobs demand different skills, which is why trading firms assign them to different people. Companies split these tasks between analysts and traders--but you have to perform both jobs. Most traders mix them up, with poor results.
You can be free. You can live and work anywhere in the world. You can be independent from routine and not answer to anybody.
This is the life of a successful trader.
你是自由的,你可以生活和工作在世界任何一个角落。你不必受日常事务约束或向任何人汇报。
这就是成功交易者的生活写照。
其实这段话也可以延伸到向往财富自由、希望早日退休者梦寐以求的生活。我的朋友年前退休,夫妻俩的退休金(pension,不是401k之类)旱涝保收每年有十多万美元,加上便宜优质的医疗保险几乎全保,所以生活滋润,后顾无忧,令人羡慕。朋友的短信原话:I haven't missed my job even once. Retirement rocks...
Trading without a stop is like walking down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan without pantson. It can be done, I have seen people do it, but it is not worth the trouble.
A stop will not protect you from a bad trading system; the best it can do is slow down the damage.
停止点并不能保护你免受错误交易系统的伤害,它最多只能减缓损害。
A stop-loss order limits your risk even though it does not always work. Sometimes prices gap through a stop. A stop is not a perfect tool but it is the best defensive tool we have. 设定停损可以控制你的风险,尽管它未必始终有效。股价有时会跳空穿越你的停损点。停损并不完美,但它是我们最佳的防御工具。
Serious traders place stops the moments they enter a trade. As time passes, stops need to be adjusted to reduce the amount of money at risk or to protect a bigger chunk of profit. Stops should be moved one way – in the direction of the trade. We all like to hope that a trade will succeed – and a stop is a piece of reality that prevents traders from hanging on to empty hope.
A good trading system delivers greater profits than losses over a period of time, but even the most carefully designed system doesn’t guarantee success in every trade. No system can assure you of never having a losing trade or even a series of losing trades.
The inability to manage losses is one of the worst pitfalls in trading. Beginners freeze like deer in the headlights when a deepening loss starts wiping out profits of many good trades. It’s a general human tendency to take profits quickly but wait for losing trades to come back to even. By the time the despairing amateur gives up hope and closes his trade with a terrible loss, his account is badly and sometimes irreparably damaged.
To be a successful trader, you need to learn risk management rules and firmly implement them.
想成为一名成功的交易者,你必须学会风险管理的规则,并且严格执行。
Whatever method you use, remember to apply the key risk management rule: the distance from your entry to the protective stop, multiplied by position size can never be more than 2 percent of your account equity. No matter how attractive a trade, pass it up if it would require putting more than 2% of your account at risk.
The absolute maximum a trader may risk on any trade is two percent of his account equity. For example, if you have $30,000 in your account, you may not risk more than $600 per trade, and if you have $10,000, you may not risk more than $200.
If you see an attractive trade, but a logical stop would have to be placed where more than 2 percent of equity would be at risk—pass on that trade. You may risk less, but you may never risk more. You must avoid risking more than 2 percent on a trade the way a recovering alcoholic avoids bars.
Memory is the cornerstone of civilized life. It allows us to learn from our successes and even more from our failures. Keeping a diary of your trades will help you grow and become a better trader.
The mental baggage from childhood can prevent you from succeeding in the markets. You have to identify your weaknesses and work to change. Keep a trading diary—write down your reasons for entering and exiting every trade. Look for repetitive patterns of success and failure.
All of us have our own demons to exorcise on the journey to becoming successful traders. Here are several rules that worked for me as I grew from a wild amateur into an erratic semiprofessional and finally into a calm professional trader. You may change this list to suit your personality.
1. Decide that you are in the market for the long haul—that is, you want to be a trader even 20 years from now.
下决心长期入市交易,也就是说,即使在20年之后,你仍然想成为一名交易员。
2. Learn as much as you can. Read and listen to experts, but keep a degree of healthy skepticism about everything. Ask questions, and do not accept experts at their word.
3. Do not get greedy and rush to trade—take your time to learn. The markets will be there, offering more good opportunities in the months and years ahead.
4. Develop a method for analyzing the market—that is, “If A happens, then B is likely to happen.” Markets have many dimensions—use several analytic methods to confirm trades. Test everything on historical data and then in the markets, using real money. Markets keep changing—you need different tools for trading bull and bear markets and transitional periods as well as a method for telling the difference (see the sections on technical analysis).
5. Develop a money management plan. Your first goal must be long-term survival; your second goal, a steady growth of capital; and your third goal, making high profits. Most traders put the third goal first and are unaware that goals 1 and 2 exist (see Section 9, “Risk Management”).
6. Be aware that a trader is the weakest link in any trading system. Go to a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous to learn how to avoid losses or develop your own method for cutting out impulsive trades.
7. Winners think, feel, and act differently than losers. You must look within yourself, strip away your illusions, and change your old ways of being, thinking, and acting. Change is hard, but if you want to be a professional trader, you have to work on changing and developing your personality.
Study Guide for the New. trading for a. Living. Psychology • Discipline. Trading Tools and Systems. Risk Control • Trade Management. Dr. Alexander Elder.
三人行,必有我师。请google 一下William O'Neil's Net Worth. 另外,CAN SLIM 法则的CAN就是基本面。
William O’Neil (born March 25, 1933) Oklahoma City. Current net worth 100 million USD (approximately). O’Neil is considered by many investors to be a stock market wizard.