Chapter 1 - Market is a battlefield
Market is a battlefield. This war zone is filled with traders from all different kinds of background.
But no matter who you are, whether you are a buyer or seller, the moment market fills your order, you
are in this war for one reason only: profit. Although we may not meet our opponent, the cold hard
math is: your lost is somebody’s gain.
The competition is fierce between major trading firms, Wall Street elites, investors, hedge fund
managers and the public. Yes, the enormous yet poor, powerless and hopeful mass, built by
individuals who wish to trade their ways to success. Well, sorry to burst that bubble. Majority of
public traders fail and don’t even last over a year. Most quit after tremendous financial loss, blaming
bad luck or randomness of the market. They acclaim trading is extremely difficult and individual
trader can’t profit. Well, trading is like everything else, the skill to trade successfully develops over
time. First, you need to learn the basic knowledge of the market and price movement. Then devoting
yourself into thousands of hours of practicing. Lastly, developing a positive attitude of emotion-free
and consistency. These steps are the essential journey of becoming a successful trader.
Wall Street and major firms thrive on public’s generous contribution. Imagine how bloody difficult
trading would be, if it only permits trading elites to make money from each other, on the battle of wits,
without the public’s participation. They would shake their head: “No thanks. We like the public,
because they almost always bring a knife to a gun fight!” The conventional knowledge which public
traders possess are essential to themselves because they link what they learned to explain what’s
happening on the chart.
Many trading books, in essence, are books of tools. Tools mostly consist of indicators, patterns,
strategies, images, entry signal and rules. These tools are promoted as “practical” and “magical”,
which led people to believe there is a “Holy Grail” to exploit. Traders couldn’t wait to finish the
book to experiment the strategy to make money. They became slaves of these methods and strategies,
which paralyzed their analyzing ability. Rarely do they ask themselves why market is doing what it’s
doing.
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