(避免明显的交易陷阱)
如果你要报名为期一周的交易培训，那么你可以学到许多很好的基本交易技巧。高级培训或许可以交易一种新技术，或者是关于市场的新见解。然而，交易课程本身并不是你成功交易生涯的关键。如果你高估了交易课程的作用，那么你很有可能给自己带来伤害。
有时市场上的一切都似乎很顺利。每一笔交易都会盈利，你都忍不住要告诉身边的人自己的表现是如此的好。为了他们的利益，你只想告诉他们挣钱是多么的容易（你是多么的聪明）。但是所有好事都会到头。市场变化了，你发现很难进行一笔好的交易。你的头寸经常被止损。作为一位成功的交易者，你在很艰难的获取盈利。压力开始增加。
这不再是培训课程中安全的环境。你变得犹豫不决。你开始怀疑自己的决定。你所学的技术似乎不再起作用。你的交易计划开始付诸东流。你开始改变自己的交易策略，不断的从新的技术指标中寻找确定答案。它们给出矛盾的交易信号。你忘记了自己的计划并开始关注自己的生存…
许多交易课程没有告诉你将如何面对市场上上的各种情况。它们仅仅给你展现出交易计划以及该计划所适用的例子。在解释基本的概念之后，便让你投身市场赚取第一桶金。如果真是那么简单的话，那么你认为他们会去开展培训课吗？他们没有告诉你该计划的不适用情况，没有告诉你当市场与你做单趋势相反的时候你将面临的压力与不确定性，没有告诉你市场专业人士是如何引诱新手追涨（追空）的…没有一个交易培训会因为缺少经验而付出代价。交易没有捷径。
神奇的宣传套路
交易课程趋于市场化，并假设交易者普遍性的贪婪、懒惰：他们希望在不付诸努力的情况下赚取大量资金。第二种假设是，交易者是易受骗的。交易课程通常伴随着高价标签以及执着的业务员，并以“只有几千美金的小额投资”向大众宣传。
不要将价格与质量混淆。交易课程适用相反远离——你付出的越多，你的收益就可能越少。我曾经发现讲习班的一门课程高达$1000。如果他们向你保证第一年将会盈利$50,000，你该怎么办？跑！
贯穿所有市场营销的共同点是：
• “交易成功的秘诀”
• “如何从市场中盈利的7个简单步骤”
• “你只需要一台电脑和创造财富的欲望”
知道它们的宣传套路了吧？它们都为你提供一个毫不费力的盈利前景。可以让你坐在办公桌前就可以从市场中获得大量财富。这些都是很吸引人的理念，不是吗？但事实上，这就跟“牙仙的传说”一样不切实际。
其实没有通向成功的捷径。交易课程可以帮助你获得基本的交易知识、帮你理解市场中不断出现的陷阱。它们不会教你如何自律以及如何去了解自己的弱点。这些都是要从实践中获得。
一个系统的学习方法
1. 从一个实际的目标开始：
• 学到基础知识？
• 学到一个新的技术？
• 赚取一百万？
2. 你有足够的时间去巩固市场上学到的东西吗？如果你想成为一名优秀的交易者的话，那么你每天至少需要花2个小时在上面。
3. 从基础知识开始，全面的理解，并付诸练习！！！你需要有牢固的基础。每天看1~2个小时的走势图。
• 分析蜡烛图和交易量图。
• 识别支撑和阻力位。
• 识别图表模型。
• 识别趋势和交易区间。
• 识别不同的时间框架。
• 研究市场和行业指数。
• 研究它们是如何影响每一只股票的。
• 了解股票市场、证券市场以及货币商品市场的相互联系。
4. 寻找一个可以帮助你达到以上要求的交易课程。一个为期两天的讲习班不足以让你了解所有东西——不论营销人员如何说。你要从不同的教育机构中去寻找，寻找那些专门训练经纪人和分析师的课程。这将会需要3~6个月。你不仅会获得一个很好的基础，同时你也可以从中学到所有的交易技巧。
5. 从别人的经历中获益。搜索交易论坛上关于各种培训课程的评论。问几个问题。谁参加了该课程？他们什么时候参加的？这很重要，因为近期参加的学员通常会热情洋溢，但是一年以后他们会怎么想呢？他们是如何获益的？他们学到了什么技巧？有实际性的交易课程吗？他们是否会推荐？
6. 不要认为自己还没有准备好真实账户交易。如果你这么认为的话，那么你将很有可能在几个星期之后被担架抬出交易市场，不再有重返的可能。草拟出一个交易计划，用历史数据检验并始终坚持执行——不要改变它，哪怕只是一点点的改动。模拟交易一两周，直到你已经做好真实交易的准备。
7. 以少量资本进行有效的、谨慎的交易。注重长达12个月的长期回报率，并承诺不因为几次盈利之后便加大投入资金。那只会表明你已经不受自己的控制。每周都要监控自己的盈利情况，查看并评估每一笔交易：你是否坚决执行自己的计划。做好以后将如何改变自己交易计划的笔记——但是现在不要做出任何改变。
8. 不要日内交易。这是交易专家的强项。
9. 交易3个月之后暂停一周，不要做任何交易。回顾一下你的表现，发现自己需要弥补的不足之处。如果你知道自己存在问题，但是不知道如何解决，那么请咨询导师。找到一位经验丰富的成功交易者，与他进行几个小时的交流。制定出下面3个月的交易计划并继续。每隔3个月都要审视一下自己的交易过程。
10. 12个月以后，回顾你的表现。并决定是否要增加本金。24个月，36个月的时候重复进行。
交易书籍
阅读交易书籍就好比观看电视如何打板球。交易书籍可以帮助你比较自己和别人的交易方法并发现自己的不足，但是它们不可替代真实的体验。同时，交易书籍也以“神奇的方法”原则出售：“解开…的秘密”；“如何在交易市场中盈利”等等。
模拟交易
模拟交易可以帮助你完善自己的交易计划，但是它不能够替代真实的交易。在学习的过程中你应该感觉到压力。如果你不能适应这种压力，那么它将扰乱你的决策。
如果你不能忍受高温
......不要进入厨房。
如果你在交易过程中亏损了，那么请不要责备你的交易课程提供者、你的经纪人、机构、内部人员、政府、OPEC或是美联储。它们仅仅是你交易之前需要考虑的要素。你才是自己的主人，你是责任人，如果你破产，除了你自己没有人会流一滴眼泪。所以，你要谨慎…准备！
Finding the Right Trading Course
(and avoiding the obvious pitfalls)
If you had to enrol on a one-week trading course, you may learn some good basic trading skills. An advanced course may teach you a new technique, or new insights into the market. However, on their own, they are not the key to a career as a successful trader. If you over-estimate what the course can do for you, you are likely to do yourself harm.
A Cricket Analogy
To those readers not familiar with the game, a cricket ball is delivered at similar speeds to a baseball (up to 160 km/hour). There are two subtle differences: the bat is slightly broader; and the batsman stands on the plate!
If you had to enrol on a week's batting course, involving 3 to 4 hours of batting practice each day, you may learn some good basic batting skills, but it is not necessarily the key to a successful career as a professional batsman. Over-estimate what the course will do for you and you are likely to end up with a serious injury.
In a match you may be fortunate enough to face a few overs of gentle leg spin — even dispatching a few balls to the boundary. Everything seems to go right. But all good things come to an end.
In cricket, as in the market, changes can happen very suddenly. A new bowler is brought on. The ball moves a lot faster. You can't make up your mind quickly enough. Misjudge and you get hit. Surprise, surprise — it hurts. This is not the safe environment of the training ground. Indecision creeps in. You start doubting your own decisions. You can't apply the techniques that you learned. Your batting plan begins to unravel. Every time that you get on the front foot, the ball whistles past your chin — close enough to smell the leather. You take another hit. You forget your plan and concentrate on survival. After a few awkward fends in the interest of self-preservation you fail to protect your stumps.
You head back to the pavilion, totally cowed and fortunate not be carried off on a stretcher.
Sometimes everything just seems to go right in the market. Every trade is a success and you can't resist telling your mates how well you are doing. For their own good you just want them to know how easy it is to make money (and how clever you are). All good things come to an end. The market changes. It seems harder to find good trades. You are frequently stopped out of your positions. You incur a string of small losses. And sure-fire winners struggle to make new gains. The pressure starts to build.
This is no longer the safe environment of the training course. Indecision creeps in. You start doubting your own decisions. The techniques that you learned don't seem to work any more. Your trading plan begins to unravel. You start changing your trading rules, looking for confirmation from additional indicators. They give conflicting signals. You forget your plan and concentrate on survival.....
Many trading courses fail to prepare you for what you will face in the market place. They present you with a trading plan and some fine examples of where the plan works, explain the basic concepts and send you off to make your first million. If it was that easy do you think they would be selling training courses? They fail to prepare you for the times when the plan does not work. They fail to prepare you for the pressure and uncertainty that you will face when the market goes against you. They fail to teach you about professional traders who lure the naive into chasing prices higher or selling a stock lower. No trading course will compensate for a lack of experience. There are no short-cuts.
The Magic Formula
Many trading courses are marketed on the assumption that the average investor is greedy and lazy: they want to make a lot of money without a lot of effort. And a second assumption: that they are gullible. Normally accompanied by hefty price tags and persistent salesman, these courses are pedaled to the public "for a smallinvestment of only a few thousand dollars".
Do not confuse price with quality. Work on the inverse principle - the MORE that you pay, the LESS you are likely to benefit. I have yet to find a course or workshop that is worth more than $1000 (not that I have been on all of them). What if they guarantee that you will make $50,000 in your first year of trading? RUN!!!
Look for the common thread that runs through all their marketing: the magic formula.
• "The Secrets of Trading Success"
• "How to Profit From the Market in 7 Easy Steps"
• "all you need is a computer and the desire to create wealth"
Recognize the magic formula? All of them offer you the prospect of wealth without effort. The ability to extract a fortune from the market without moving from your chair. An appealing concept isn't it? So is the tooth fairy.
There are no magic formulas. Trading courses may help you to gain a good working knowledge of the basics and an understanding of some of the traps and pitfalls that you face in the market every day. What they (or I) cannot teach you is self-discipline and an understanding of your own human weaknesses. That comes with experience. And loads of practice.
A Systematic Approach
11. Start with a realistic goal in mind:
• Do you want to learn the basics?
• Learn a new technique?
• Or make a million dollars?
12. Do you have sufficient time to practice what you learn from the course?
Work on a minimum of 2 hours a day if you want to become a good trader.
13. Learn the basics first. Know them thoroughly. And PRACTICE!!!
You need a strong foundation. Read charts for 1 to 2 hours a day.
• Analyze candlesticks (or OHLC bars) and volume
• Identify support and resistance levels
• Identify chart patterns
• Identify trends and trading ranges
• Identify the various time frames
• Study market and sector indices
• Learn the influence that these have on individual stocks
• And the interaction between various equity markets, bond markets, currencies and commodities
14. Seek out a trading course that will help you to achieve this. A two-day workshop is not going to teach you all that you need to know - no matter what the salesman says. Seek out courses run by various educational institutions - the kind attended by trainee stockbrokers and analysts. The kind that take 3 to 6 months. You will not learn all the tricks of the trade but you will gain a good basic grounding.
15. Benefit from the experience of others. Search trading forums for discussion on various training courses. Ask a few questions. Who has been on the course? When did they do the course? This is important: recent participants are normally fired with enthusiasm but how will they feel a year later? How have they benefited? What skills did they learn? Is there any ongoing support? Are there any realistic trading sessions? Would they recommend it?
16. Don't make the mistake of believing that you are now ready to enter the market. Do so and you may be stretchered off after a few weeks, never to return. Draw up a trading plan. Back test it with historical data and then stick to it - don't keep fine tuning it. Paper trade for a month or two - until you feel that you are ready to enter the market.
17. Take the smallest amount of capital that you can effectively trade with and cautiously enter the market. Concentrate on achieving the best possible return over a 12 month period. Make the commitment. Don't get excited after a few wins and increase your capital. That is a sure sign that you are not in control - the market is controlling you. Monitor your performance every week. Review each trade and assess whether you have stuck to your plan. Make notes for later as to how you could improve your plan - but don't make any changes now.
18. Don't day-trade. Leave that for the professionals.
19. After 3 months, pause for a week. Don't place any trades. Review your performance. Identify any gaps in your knowledge that need additional work (or study). If you know there is a problem but are unsure how to solve it, consult a mentor. Find an experienced (and successful) trader who is prepared to part with a few hours of his time. Set your trading plan for the next 3 months and continue. Review at regular 3 month intervals.
20. After 12 months, review your performance and decide whether you are ready to commit more capital to the market.
Do this again after 24 months, 36 months and so on.
Trading Books
Reading trading books is like learning how to play cricket by watching television. Trading books are useful for comparing your approach to others and identifying areas where you can improve your game but they are no substitute for actual experience. Again, most books are sold on the "magic formula" principle: "Unlock the Secrets to ......."; "How to Make Money in the Stock Market"; etc.
Paper Trading
Paper trading may help to perfect your technique but it is no substitute for live practice. You have to feel the pressure in order to learn. If you are not accustomed to the pressure, it will cloud your decisions when you can least afford it.
If you can't stand the Heat
......don't play in the kitchen.
If you do lose money in the market, don't blame your course provider, your broker, the institutions, insiders, the government, OPEC or the Fed. They are just some of the factors that you have to take into account in your preparation. You are responsible. You are on your own. No-one except you is going to shed a tear if you burn your capital. So take care ...... and PREPARE!
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