The threshold for trading

Recently adjusted my schedule, waking up around 7 a.m. to see my kid off to school, then sleeping again after the market opens at 8 and I finish my strategy.

Yesterday, heavy rain. The computer I use to watch the market was by the window, listening to the rain hitting the glass, thinking about how Children's Day is coming again, and considering finding an opportunity to get a gift for my kid reimbursed through an exchange, aiming for DOGE, making two small trades and then watching the market. Honestly, that feeling is very satisfying, not the thrill of profit, but a sense of security from having control.

The barrier to trading is ridiculously low.

Just one phone, open an account, a few hundred yuan is enough to get started. Learn to place orders in five minutes, and in ten minutes, you can buy and sell like a “trader.” In this sense, trading is probably the easiest industry to enter in the world — no diploma needed, no connections required, no need to read your boss’s mood, and no need to leave home. This suits me very well.

But the threshold for trading is also outrageously high.

Money earned during the newbie protection period is likely to be lost quickly, losing the principal in the short term. The real barrier in trading isn’t the operation itself, but what’s behind it: emotional management, discipline enforcement, risk control, patience. Some people spend a lifetime trying to get past these.

Yesterday, in the live stream, we discussed homeschooling, which is somewhat similar to how most of the past generations inherited their family trades. The current education system isn’t suitable for some people. If parents have skills worth passing down, forging their own path alone isn’t impossible. Back to trading, seeing the current employment situation, AI and robots are increasingly replacing human jobs. It’s foreseeable that it will become harder to find employment in the future. If you can work from home, why not put more effort into trading? I mentioned before that the entry barrier to trading is both very low and very high. But this path isn’t easy.

Those who have joined a team should be prepared to take some hits, shedding a few layers of skin. Every growth is real money. If I can guide you to achieve results with less loss, that’s the best outcome. So I will be very strict about trading questions. All the reminders I give are based on my many failures. Know it, do it. If you don’t understand, ask. Better to be scolded than to lose your principal trying blindly. Making money at home on a rainy day is indeed satisfying, but behind this “satisfaction” are countless late nights reviewing mistakes, the pain of stop-loss, and the struggle against human instincts during market fluctuations.

Even so, I still recommend everyone to learn trading well.

In this era of widening wealth gap, mastering a survival skill that doesn’t rely on any institution, platform, or person is the greatest sense of security.

Be more serious, more cautious, more disciplined.