My answer is: at first, the newcomers in futures are taking detours and looking for the holy grail of trading. Slowly, you find that there is no real holy grail, and what we are looking for begins to change, from the initial search for the holy grail to the later search for a suitable trading method.
Why should I teach you dozens of ways to get in and out? I just hope you can find a way that suits you, even if there is only one.
People often tell me that he hates himself and can't operate according to his pre-planned trading plan. For example, clearly plan to buy or sell at a certain price, and at which price to determine the stop loss. But at this price, I can't carry out my pre-made trading plan.
Or tell yourself clearly before the opening that today is a bull market and you can only "do more on dips", but at the close, you find yourself shorting orders all day. At this time, I want to slap myself.
Maybe you have the same situation. I believe that 100% of new futures people have this problem. On the surface, your psychological strength is not enough, but the deeper reason may be that you are using a trading method that is not suitable for you.
For example, you are a hothead, but you are required to do long-term work. If you buy it for a month or two, you will definitely suffocate. If you are impatient, find a trading method that suits you, such as speculation or short-term intraday trading.
You have poor discipline, but you are required to operate in strict accordance with the entry and exit methods, and you are required to endure the torment of obeying discipline every day. No matter how good this trading method is, it's hard for you to stick to it.
So some technologies are very suitable for some people, and even change their future destiny from now on. For some people, it can't achieve the expected effect and even question its feasibility.
Aren't people with insufficient psychological strength and poor discipline suitable for futures? In fact, everyone can change through scientific training methods.
An old smoker has smoked two packs of cigarettes a day for 20 years. During these 20 years, he gave up smoking countless times. Even if I cough every day, I have to smoke a few mouthfuls, and sometimes I laugh at myself and say, hey, I can't quit in my life. If you are a smoker, I believe you will have the same experience.
But one day the heavy smoker went to the hospital, and the doctor told him that you were in the early stage of lung cancer. If you don't quit smoking, it will become late, and then it will be completely hopeless. I don't need to ask here, everyone will think that the heavy smoker won't smoke a cigarette the next day. Why?
When something happens, it will break your heart and even lose your life. Will you still not correct it? In fact, I say so much because I want you to relate this example to the uncertainty of stop loss in futures actual combat. The failure of stop loss actually means that your psychological determination and discipline execution are not good enough, but you haven't realized the serious consequences that you will face if your stop loss is not firm.
Every time I train trainee traders and trainees in psychological strength and discipline execution, I will tell you this profound example. When you always think of the example I gave you, through the training method I taught you, in fact, most investors can achieve strict stop loss. The "consequence illusion method" is commonly used for stop loss.
As the saying goes-don't force others to do it. Man is not a machine. It is very painful to strictly abide by the trading methods that are not suitable for you for a long time. Once you feel pain, you can't strictly carry it out, because it is human nature to escape pain. Only by finding a trading method that suits you can you enjoy it and strictly follow it for a long time.
In fact, after futures investors enter the futures market, what they need to look for first is not the so-called "holy grail of trading", but a trading method that suits them.