(交易课程的价值)
成为一名优秀的交易者需要3~5年时间，成为交易专家所需的时间更长。没有人可以教你通过键盘上的几个按钮就可以盈利。没有通向交易专家的神奇公式，你需要：
• 扎实的基础知识；
• 识别市场中不断出现的陷阱；
• 此外最重要的一点是，你需要对自己十分了解。
如何成为交易专家
科学家对如何掌握一门特定的学科进行了大量的研究。Karl Anders和他的同事们对各领域的精英们调查之后发现变优秀需要一种特别的训练方法，被他们称作刻意练习并可以通过下方法识别：
• 注意力完全集中在如何提高自己的表现；
• 旨在提高表现的专项练习；
• 阶梯式训练。在掌握了简单的技巧之后，逐渐的提高训练难度；
• 及时和详细的指导，以及对自己表现准确的反馈。
Karl Anders 发现在各领域所需要的刻意训练都存在显著的一致性。成为行业精英需要大约10年时间，每天大约4小时的训练。不论你想成为一名奥运选手，一位科学家，或者是一位成功的商人，没有什么可以替代艰苦的训练。
了解基础知识
几个小时的阅读就可以让你基本上了解大概。如果交易仅仅需要你知道这些的话，那么交易将会变得十分简单。即使你从A到Z读完一本西班牙词典，那也不会学会说西班牙语。和学习西班牙语一样，你也需要流利的看懂图表语言：
• 蜡烛图或OHLC柱状图
• 成交量图
• 趋势
• 交易范围
• 支撑和阻力
• 图表类型
• 时间框架
• 周期
你同样也需要理解：
• 市场数据和行业指数的影响；
• 不同股票价格之间的联系；
• 利率的影响；
• 股票、证券、货币、商品之间的联系。
在你完全流利交易之前，你需要反复不断的练习应用理论识别图表。这也是许多人根据技术指标交易的原因——试图走捷径。
交易陷阱
你需要让自己具备市场专家一样的交易技巧。同样，没有什么可以代替经验。最好的方法就是学习。当面临接连几次的止损出场以及追逐上升趋势之后价格迅速下跌，你一定会变得焦头烂额。很显然，如果事先知道自己有可能亏损，并且不希望亏损所有的本金，那么建议你应该小手数交易。
了解你自己
了解你自己，是你需要学的最难的一门课程。面对自己的缺点绝不是一项愉快的任务，而且我们大多数人都会不惜一切代价规避它。开始我们认为自己是防弹的，认为自己永远不会落入那些很明显的陷阱。很快，我们就会发现自己像扑火的飞蛾一样，像“冤大头”一样不断的犯同样的错误。只有通过经验我们才能很好的控制自己。
态度 v. 能力
如果我必须总结的话，那么交易是90%的态度和10%的能力。我们中的大多数人都有变为成功者的能力，但很少人有正确的态度。成功的交易者是谨慎的，并有很强的自我约束力。
谨慎是一个苏格兰词语，意思为：
• 精明的
• 精于世故的
• 节约的
• 考虑周到的
• 十分小心的
自律要求：
• 自我约束力
• 系统的方法
• 全面的研究和准备
• 准确的绩效衡量
• 注意细节
上面的两种态度都可以通过学习获得，但是却需要时间来适应新的思维习惯。唯一的方法就是刻意训练。
Becoming an Expert Trader
(and the value of trading courses)
It may take 3 to 5 years to become a good trader. Becoming an expert could take even longer. No one can teach you to press a few buttons on your computer and make money. There are no magic formulas. What it takes is:
• a sound working knowledge of the basics;
• an understanding of the traps and pitfalls that you face in the market every day; and
• above all else, it requires an understanding of yourself.
What it Takes to Become an Expert
Scientists have conducted extensive research into what it takes to achieve mastery in a particular discipline. Karl Anders Ericsson and his colleagues studied top performers in a wide variety of fields and identified a specific type of practice, which they call deliberate practice, that is required to achieve excellence (Ericsson and Charness, 1994). Ericsson observes that deliberate practice can be identified by:
• performance with full concentration, focused on generating improvement;
• special exercises designed to improve performance;
• graduated tasks, with easier skills being mastered before more difficult skills are attempted;
• close guidance and timely, accurate feedback on performance.
Ericsson also found significant uniformity, across a wide range of fields, in the amount of deliberate practice required. To achieve excellence takes about ten years, and about four hours of practice a day. Whether you want to be an Olympic athlete, a research scientist or an expert trader, there is no substitute for hard work.
Know the Basics
A few hours reading will acquaint you with the basics. If that was all that you need to know, trading would be simple. If you read a Spanish dictionary from A to Z, you would still not be able to speak the language. Like learning Spanish, what you require is fluency in the language of the charts:
• candlesticks or OHLC bars
• volume
• trends
• trading ranges
• support and resistance
• chart patterns
• time frames
• cycles
You also need to understand:
• the influence of market and sector indices;
• the interaction between various equity markets;
• the impact of interest rates; and
• the interaction between equities, bonds, currencies and commodities.
It takes hours and hours of practice, analyzing charts and applying the theory, before you will achieve any form of fluency. That is why so many traders head off after indicators - in search of a short cut.
Traps & Pitfalls
You need to acquaint yourself with the tricks of market professionals. Again, there is no substitute for experience. The best way to learn is to trade. You are bound to get burnt a few times; having your stops shaken out or being suckered into chasing the price up, only to see it fall. Obviously, if you know that you are likely to get burnt, you don't want to burn all your capital in the process; so start trading with as small an amount of capital as is practical.
Know Thyself
Understanding yourself is the hardest lesson of all to learn. Confronting your own human failings is no pleasant task; and one that most of us avoid at all costs. We all start out thinking that we are bullet-proof; that we know better; that we will never fall into all the obvious traps. All too soon we are drawn like moths to a flame, committing the same mistakes as the "suckers". Only through experience can we learn how to control this.
This above all: to thine own self be true
~ William Shakespeare: Hamlet ACT I Scene 3
Attitude v. Ability
If I had to sum it up: Trading is 90% attitude and 10% ability. Most of us have the ability to become a successful trader. But few have the right attitude.
A successful trader should be both canny and self-disciplined.
Canny is a Scottish word meaning:
• shrewd
• worldly-wise
• thrifty
• circumspect
• cautious
Self discipline requires:
• self-control
• a systematic approach
• thorough research and preparation
• accurate performance measurement
• attention to detail
Both of these attitudes can be learned, but it takes time to develop new thinking habits. The only way is bydeliberate practice.
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.
~ Robert Burns
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