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Trade
Be content and always happy,
stable compound interest,
slow and steady progress.

Fishing, you should go to places with lots of fish to cast your line;
Trading, you should go to the places where it’s easiest to make money to place your orders.
Go long—choose the strongest.
Go short—choose the weakest.
Don’t hold your ground where there are no fish, and don’t clash head-on with the market.
Follow the direction of the capital flows; stand on the side where the trend is strongest, and making money will naturally be much easier.
Trading isn’t about who is smarter,
but about who understands better—where there are fish, that’s where you cast your line. 🎣📈

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Risk control isn’t about guessing every day whether the market will suddenly crash. Real risk control is: how big your position is, where your stop-loss is, what the worst-case loss is, and what to do after you’re wrong and your trade goes the wrong way. As for whether the market will suddenly fall—that’s the market’s business.

Real growth in trading comes from slowly growing small capital

By practicing with small capital and gradually building it up,
what you’re really going through is a process of honing your mindset and understanding compounding.

Many people always want to get rich overnight,
thinking they can make A8, A9 directly from a single trade.
But from the underlying logic of trading, that directly goes against trading principles.

Why do so many people who suddenly get rich end up back at square one?
Because they received a large unexpected windfall,
but they didn’t build the kind of mindset, discipline, and understanding that matches that wealth.

The power of compounding never comes from extreme returns,
but from having long enough time for “pretty good” performance.

What truly matters isn’t how much you made in one year,
but whether you can go through wave after wave of volatility and still stay in the game.

A strategy that keeps you anxious every night and makes you change your plan frequently,
no matter how excellent it sounds in theory,
is hard to carry out consistently over the long run.

Trading isn’t about who can make the most money in one night,
but about who can last long enough—so that time turns “pretty good” returns into astonishing results.

It’s okay to go slower.
Stability is the real starting point of compounding.

Control Your Desires, Manage Your Fear
You think you’re researching the market.
In reality, the market is researching you.
Study your greed,
study your fear,
study your luck-attempts,
study when you’ll lose control.

The Highest Realm of Trading: Ultimate Simplicity

You must rid yourself of all tedious, distracting clutter.

A trading career is radically different from ordinary life. Trading, at its core, is a minimalist way of living.

You should proactively eliminate unnecessary distractions from your life, keeping your private life simple and calm. Only then will you have enough energy to repeatedly make rational, composed decisions that are fully thought through.

In fact, trading and life influence each other:

If life is chaotic, your trading judgments are more likely to become distorted; if your trading routine is frantic and messy, it will also drag down your personal life.

So a truly mature trader should align their life rhythm with their trading rhythm.

Especially watch out for—decision fatigue.

What this industry fears most is not a lack of opportunities, but making too many meaningless decisions every day, and then—through exhaustion, anxiety, and impulsiveness—ending up with wrong judgments.

Trading doesn’t require you to make life complicated. Instead, you should remove everything that’s irrelevant.

Save energy for what truly matters:
waiting, judging, execution, and controlling risk.

Trading is never only a battle of IQ

Traditional IQ tests measure language, logic, and spatial reasoning—but they cannot determine whether a trader can stand at the top of the market.

Truly top-tier trading ability comes from three core qualities:
First, probability intuition.
It’s not about predicting the future, but quickly judging win rates amid uncertainty—knowing when to act and when to wait.
Second, emotional control.
When facing massive unrealized losses, consecutive stop-outs, and market panic, you can still stay calm and not be driven by greed or fear.
Third, pattern recognition.
From complex price fluctuations, capital flows, and market sentiment, capture patterns that others can’t see.

These abilities can’t be copied by a few books or a few indicators. It’s more like a “brain trading system” formed through long-term training—your prefrontal cortex handles rational decisions, the amygdala handles emotional reactions, and truly excellent traders can keep both in balance.

So in the end, what the market tests is not just knowledge and techniques, but a person’s cognitive structure, psychological resilience, and the ability to handle uncertainty.
Trading is a war between a person and their own brain. True experts win themselves first, then win the market.

The market won't punish you for making mistakes. It punishes you for letting your emotions control your timing.