Without Humor and Cultivation, You Can't Become a Good Trader
2008/2/1 19:17:37
The New Year is approaching, everything is busy—it's better to just stay home and be at peace. Normally I don't write posts on Friday evenings, but this time I'll make an exception. Since I won't discuss stocks on Saturday and Sunday, I'll seize tonight to talk about stocks one more time.
Capital alienates people, and the market likewise alienates people. Look at the people in the market now—many have become neurotic, with nothing left in their minds but knee-jerk reactions and desires about dark horses and rallies. Such market participants are truly pathetic.
Without humor and cultivation, you can't become a good trader. A trader who sees "Tieling" or "Baoding" and can only think about what stocks they hint at will never achieve long-term trading success.
Tieling is simply a bit of humor from Zhao Benshan, and Baoding is from Guo Degang. Of course, friends from the south may not be so familiar with these—that's not surprising. But actually, even if you don't know the humorous references, you could understand the joke just from the classification of "streaking" in the text.
This ID explaining this matter so seriously is itself quite funny—it's a minor thing. But some followers of "Confucius-Man," upon seeing this ID say that the first encounter with the annual line is a comedy, assume that touching the annual line and immediately bouncing back is the comedy. Presumably, what Confucius-Man types write is all that bland. Do you know what it means to "write joy through scenes of sorrow to multiply the joy"? Think about it—even a pullback to the 5-day line gets deliberately smashed through to scare out the uncommitted. How much more so for the 250-day line? If the sorrowful scene isn't written to its fullest, how can you have a good comedy? Without even this level of cultivation, what business do you have trading stocks?
Many things are interconnected. For example, at the top, it's "writing sorrow through scenes of joy to multiply the sorrow." Literature, art, and the market are interconnected—it's just whether you have the cultivation and sensitivity for it.
The market is ultimately about cultivating the self. Whether all your cultivation is just empty show—the market tests that instantly. Many so-called cultural people look down on the market because they're nothing but fancy but useless poseurs.
A truly successful trader must be a philosopher, a doer, an artist, and a person with a sense of humor. Otherwise, any weakness in the market may prove fatal.
In peacetime, there is no better place for self-improvement than the market. Cherish it.
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缠中说禅 2008/2/1 19:25:46
Signing off, goodbye.
缠中说禅 2008/2/1 19:24:06
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2008-02-01 19:20:36
May I ask, could the government be practicing "hiding one's strength and biding one's time"?
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The comatose ones are the best at "hiding one's strength and biding one's time."