Discipline is the strongest trump card for the poor in the contract market.
More than three years ago, a girl found me through a fan group. She told me her story: as a child, she was viewed as a disgrace by her father, simply for not being a son. Her mother was beaten out of the house and never returned. Her grandmother, hunched over with a bent back, picked up scraps from the garbage, raising her little by little with every penny.
At 17, she was already struggling on the assembly line. Her hands were bloodied and battered from the tools, and the number on her paycheck at the end of the month was 3200 RMB. When she reached out to me, there was only 500U in her trading account.
"Teacher, I don’t understand, but I don’t want to resign to fate."
Just with this one sentence, I decided to help her.
A year later, her account balance exceeded 20,000 U. She picked up her grandmother from the tin house next to the garbage dump and sent me a photo: the elderly woman curled up in the sunlight, her thin hands tightly gripping the quilt. The girl said it was the first time in her grandmother's life that she smelled the scent of the sun.
The following five trading iron rules, earned with blood and tears, she said were engraved in her bones. I also share them with everyone who doesn't want to bow to fate based on my own trading experience.
1. Stop loss is the safety belt for the poor.
That 500 U was saved from her teeth, not used to gamble with her life. I told her that every trade must have a stop loss, and the position should never exceed 5%. You can be wrong a hundred times, but as long as the market is right for you once, you can exit.
In the contract market, retail investors often lose big not because of stop loss, but because of liquidation. The market is unpredictable; making more when right and losing less when wrong is the way to survive. She strictly adhered to this principle, which is also the fundamental reason she could survive later.
2. Only eat fish belly, don’t touch the knife's tip.
"Having dropped so much, it should rebound now, right?" — People who say this have long been eliminated by the market.
I taught her that below the moving average, all rises may be baiting the bulls; in front of resistance levels, every bullet may backfire. She learned to act only at high-probability moments and no longer let every market fluctuation sway her emotions.
The trend is your best friend. Never try to predict tops and bottoms; in incomprehensible markets, staying out and observing is the best strategy.
3. Profit-loss ratio > win rate; this is an arithmetic problem for the poor.
When losing, only cut off a small piece of flesh; when winning, you must tear off a leg from the opponent. Even with a 40% win rate, as long as you make 300% when right and only lose 10% when wrong, you can still achieve stable profits.
I made her understand that contract trading is not about pursuing win rates, but about pursuing risk-reward ratios. When she accepted that small losses were okay, but never letting profitable trades turn into losing trades, her account began to grow steadily.
4. The three-part principle of capital: You must be alive to output.
I helped her establish strict money management rules:
60% life-saving fund (unchangeable).
30% swing fund (the only source of contracts).
10% exploratory fund (cost of trial and error).
This way, even if that 30% is completely lost, she still has a trump card to turn things around.
In the contract market, money management is the lifeblood. It determines whether you can make money or survive in the long term. The total daily position should be strictly controlled within 30%, leaving enough buffer space to cope with sudden market fluctuations.
5. Daily power-off system.
I set a hard rule for her: if profit exceeds 30% or loss reaches 10%, immediately shut down the computer and step into reality.
The contract market specifically targets red-eyed gamblers, only rewarding calm hunters. Overtrading is the fatal flaw of experts; accumulated fees may cause you to lose money in otherwise profitable trades.
When she sent me a screenshot of 20,000 U, the voice message carried five minutes of suppressed crying. It was not joy, but the release of breath that had been held for twenty years.
The contract market is not a shortcut for the poor, but a battlefield for the smart. It tests not skills, but human nature.
This girl's comeback has no secrets, only a persistent adherence to simple discipline. First comes discipline, then execution, and last is the system. If you also look up from the abyss, may this light illuminate your path forward—discipline is the only weapon to traverse the darkness at the bottom.
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