周彦灵: The Difference Between Experts and Retail Investors, Profit and Loss Are Just a Step Away! Learn a new skill every day to improve yourself!
Often, I chat with my clients and friends to understand their investment journey. Every time I listen, I can't help but feel deeply moved. Every investor starts the same way, full of confidence entering the investment market. After experiencing a cycle of profit, loss, profit, and loss, they begin to lose confidence and start looking for a teacher who can help them make money in the vast market. They thought they could live worry-free by finding that teacher, but things didn't go as expected. In the end, they could only leave this heart-wrenching place with regret. However, not willing to accept the current situation, they can only linger in this market, eventually forgetting their original intention for entering this market. When you, full of confidence, secretly use your hard-earned savings to enter the financial market, aiming to provide a better life for your family, to give a surprise to your loved one on their birthday, to provide more help to your children when they get married, all these intentions are good. But when facing the ever-changing market every day, how much can you grasp? Have you ever truly thought about why you ended up like this? Is it your own problem, someone else's problem, or the market's problem? Today, I will discuss this with everyone:
Failing in trading is not scary, the brave will not perish: Any trader, even the most outstanding expert, is just a mortal, not a god. Therefore, making mistakes in understanding the market is natural. You can ask any relatively successful or profitable trader if they have ever blown up their accounts or felt despair and confusion. Only through bearing unbearable pain can one truly understand the essence of trading. Of course, what I mentioned earlier is not to say that you must suffer heavy losses to comprehend the way of investment. These words are just to encourage those who have experienced losses, hoping that they won't lose confidence in this market due to one or two short-term losses. After all, the cryptocurrency market is definitely a place where you can make money, otherwise it wouldn't have survived in the market for so long, right?
Actually, no matter how experienced a trader is, the possibility of making mistakes and losing trades always exists. Because speculation can never be 100% safe. Experience means having gone through more and deeper lessons, which can be painful and embarrassing; without pain, one cannot remember, without pain, one cannot reflect. This is how things are. It's normal for a person to make mistakes, but if they cannot learn from their mistakes, then they are truly wronged. Therefore, losses are not scary, what's scary is not knowing how to summarize and not knowing where you went wrong. If you don't know how to summarize and find out where you went wrong, you can come to me, and I will help you analyze it.
In fact, what I want to say is that all of you are retail investors in the market. Whether you are a retail investor or a trading expert, there are times when mistakes are made. Don't just envy the experts, because the experts are just "skillful through practice." Remember, "It's better to retreat and set up a net than to envy the fish at the water's edge." The path to success is paved with sweat and hard work. Diligence is the only shortcut to success. You must believe in your own abilities, put in several times the effort of others, aim to become an expert, and constantly move towards becoming an expert. If you don't know how to absorb these essences and grow, you can come to me, Yanling, for discussion. I am not talented, but I have a background in finance. I have been working in the financial market for over 8 years, mainly doing analysis work. I believe I can provide some useful advice to everyone.
In my previous shared articles, I have summarized some reasons and issues that may cause you to lose money. For details, you can click on my profile to read my previous articles. Today, I will briefly summarize the specific differences between experts and ordinary retail investors, and why they can always make a profit while you always end up losing? Below are some sharing and thoughts for everyone:
Experts aim for unmistakable upward trends and target unmistakable downward trends. Many ordinary retail investors think they understand, and act before they believe the market will rise or fall, which is often a mistake. You are neither a specialist nor a professional researcher in investment. Where does your confidence and courage come from to dive in early? What is the basis for your trades? Have you calmly thought and analyzed it?
The level at which experts analyze the market is higher than that of ordinary retail investors, and the probability of making mistakes is lower. They also react to correcting errors faster than ordinary retail investors, not avoiding mistakes altogether, but not making excuses when they do. Instead, they immediately respond and change strategies to turn losses into gains. The ability to react at critical moments is often a crucial moment that distinguishes experts from retail investors.
Experts are good at staying out of the market, spending much more time out of the market than in it. Whereas ordinary retail investors want to seize every trade, feeling uncomfortable if they don't operate dozens of trades a day, unable to sleep well at night, and rushing to operate the next day. It seems like they will miss the opportunity to make big money if they don't trade. They regret not following a trade, but often end up losing more due to frequent trading.
Experts are good at waiting and waiting again. Waiting for the arrival of a big opportunity, and then going all out. Ordinary retail investors don't wait, they don't waste time, they toil every day. They can't stand not doing anything for a day, and their principle of speculation has become a habit. They can't help but follow the trend at the slightest movement.
Experts are good at setting the best stop-loss levels. It's not just about entering at the right point, but also about setting appropriate stop-loss levels based on analysis. For example, when shorting at the halfway point, if the market rises and falls, how to set the stop-loss level to avoid losses and catch the market when it comes down is crucial. This is a professional skill that only experienced traders with long-term practical experience are good at. If you often feel wronged by stop-losses, and the market returns after you've suffered a loss, and you don't know how to control this, you can come to me, Yanling, to learn and discuss, because this is indeed not something that can be explained in a few words.
Experts are good at exiting at the right time. There's a saying that those who know how to buy are apprentices, and those who know how to sell are masters. Not everyone can control their desires and take profits at the right time. Many people often miss the best time to take profits due to temporary greed, and end up losing.
These six issues all show that the technical and mental strength of ordinary retail investors is not yet sufficient. To solve these problems, you must strive to learn, learn, and learn again; think, think, and think again, constantly improve your technical skills and overall quality, and create your own investment-winning magic weapon. Only then can you steadily grow your account and achieve stable and long-term gains.
If you follow the teachings of Senior Analyst Zhou Yanling above and change yourself, I believe you will soon see results!
To become an expert, you must learn from the experts. Most ordinary retail investors don't have particularly good experiences. Even if your good friend invests with you and imparts their experience, they are not professionals. Some of their experiences are just ordinary. As a friend, they certainly want to help you and hope you make money, but the truth is they cannot guide you to become an expert and achieve long-term profitability. Only experts have special experiences and methods that ordinary people don't have. They are the group of retail investors who make money, and they are the winners in the investment world. Learning from successful people will help you quickly move towards success. Only experts can help you become an expert!
The investment road is not smooth. My words are not fancy, but they are sincere. You are able to read my articles, which is fate. I believe in fate. Fate allows us to meet and know each other. Every fate should be cherished. Different encounters lead to different results. I hope that in the future, your investment journey will become smoother and less difficult. If you believe in fate, believe that we can become friends, and try to communicate. No one can accompany you to the end, but there will be many people to guide you on the path of growth. I am Zhou Yanling, a senior financial analyst who loves finance, is passionate about investment, and has been dedicated to financial investment for many years. If you have any investment-related confusion, you can come to me for discussion. Thank you for reading. Good night to those who have read my article~
This article is exclusively authored by Senior Analyst Zhou Yanling (WeChat: Zhou Yanling). I have been engaged in financial market investment research for over ten years, mainly analyzing and guiding BTC, ETH, DOT, DOGE, LTC, FIL, EOS, XRP, BCH, ETC, BSV and other cryptocurrency contract/spot operations. I have a solid theoretical foundation and practical experience, specializing in technical and fundamental analysis, emphasizing capital management and risk control, and my operating style is steady and decisive. I am recognized by a large number of investment friends for my amiable and responsible character, as well as my sharp and decisive operations. If you need to know more about real-time investment strategies, trading techniques, operational skills, and candlestick knowledge, you can follow my account (WeChat: Zhou Yanling).
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