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description: "How to build a long-term stable and profitable trading system. The core idea is to believe in the uncertainty of the market and use systematic methods to deal with it. The system includes four key parts: trend trading, low-risk profit-taking, ensuring 80% of the principal is not lost, and cultivating a winner's mindset. It emphasizes that each part must be implemented effectively. 🐂 There are only two types of techniques: following the trend and going against it. Following the trend is the key to success—ride the momentum of the major market, seize opportunities in mid-term and long-term trends, and avoid counter-trend operations. Other things like golden crosses, death crosses, gaps, and top divergences are all nonsense. Don’t go against the trend; always follow it..."
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# Stock Market Zen: Build Your Own System and Execute It

How to build a long-term stable and profitable trading system. The core idea is to believe in the uncertainty of the market and use a systematic approach to deal with it. The **system includes four key components: trend trading, low-risk profit-taking, ensuring 80% of the principal is not lost, and cultivating a winner's mindset**, and emphasizes that each component must be practically implemented.

-   🐂 **There are only two types of techniques: following the trend and going against it. Following the trend is the key to success—follow the market trend, seize opportunities in medium and major trends, and avoid counter-trend operations.** Other things like golden crosses, death crosses, gaps, and top divergences are nonsense. Never go against the trend; always follow it. No one succeeds without following the trend. First, follow the broader market trend, not individual stocks. Minor trends are optional because they often come with small and unstable gains. Medium and major trends are the juiciest parts of the market—these must be captured, as they are key to profitability. You can make mistakes, but don’t miss them. #TrendTrading #MarketAnalysis #Opportunities
-   💰 **Low risk is the prerequisite for heavy positions—set profit-taking and stop-loss points.** Just following the trend won’t guarantee profits because it’s not 100% accurate. Even if you follow the trend, you can still lose money, right? Since it’s not foolproof, the second critical issue in the system is low-risk profit-taking. Because it’s not 100% accurate, there’s inherent risk, and our account funds are limited—they can run out. So, every trade must be low-risk; high-risk strategies are unsustainable and will eventually lead to ruin. Even if you’re confident, avoid high-risk trades—ensure every trade has controllable risk. #RiskControl #CapitalManagement #HeavyPositionStrategy
-   🛡️ **Protecting 80% of the principal is a trader’s fundamental skill.** You must ensure 80% of the principal is never lost—this is the first basic skill of a trader. For example, if you’re given a $1 million account, only $200,000 is allowed to be lost; the remaining $800,000 must never be touched. If you lose more than $200,000 and drop below $800,000, you’re immediately disqualified—no excuses, even if you recover later. #PrincipalProtection #CapitalSafety #TradingDiscipline
-   🧘 **A winner’s mindset ensures execution—neither eager for profits nor afraid of losses.** If the first three points are implemented, a practical, long-term profitable trading system emerges. But will it make money? Not necessarily—it’s only theoretical without execution. What determines execution? Mindset. The right mindset leads to strong execution. Staying calm is key to effectively executing the trading system. #MindsetManagement #Execution #TradingPsychology

Master these four points, and your theoretically profitable system will turn into a steady stream of income. To recap, the key to long-term stable profits is first acknowledging market uncertainty. What’s uncertainty? It means we don’t know if it’s a bull market—don’t assume it is or isn’t. So how to deal with uncertainty? Use the system, which consists of the four parts above—implement them one by one.

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## Comments (23)

- **小牛更牛 · 2025-05-24T13:34:28.000Z**: Who knows how much the top 2 assets are worth? I asked many big shots but got no reply.
  - **融金汇银** (2025-08-05T15:31:14.000Z): 1.3 million
  - **两江总督** (2025-09-20T10:32:08.000Z): US dollar?
- **笃定 · 2025-05-01T10:32:36.000Z · 👍 1**: Big bro, can you mentor me?
- **这个号暂时不用了 · 2025-04-25T11:01:59.000Z**: Good article
- **探路君Lee · 2025-04-24T22:55:05.000Z · 👍 1**: Why haven't I had any enlightenment yet? Am I too stupid? Guaranteed 80% no loss, does that mean the stop-loss point is 20%?
- **如意￥ · 2025-04-24T22:44:53.000Z**: Wasn't it said that shorting 23.1 semiconductors was a good position to build? Who actually did it? Lost a fortune.
- **如意￥ · 2025-04-24T22:42:35.000Z**: Good thing you cut your losses on that semiconductor short yesterday
- **自来也 · 2025-04-24T08:45:30.000Z**: Learn slowly,
- **爱喝暴龙苏 · 2025-04-24T05:34:20.000Z**: Okay
- **坚定的持有勇敢的操作 · 2025-04-23T23:14:50.000Z · 👍 1**: Written by AI
  - **满仓spcx等暴涨** (2025-04-24T05:36:31.000Z): ？？
- **Bruuuuuuce · 2025-04-23T16:32:50.000Z · 👍 3**: Looks like the system actually said nothing, you gotta know how to judge the trend first if you want to follow it
  - **满仓spcx等暴涨** (2025-04-23T16:33:39.000Z): Actually everything has been said, you just haven't realized it yet.
  - **Bruuuuuuce** (2025-04-23T16:50:04.000Z): Never mind, I do high-frequency algorithmic trading. Our systematic trading is another kind of systematic, based on real "systems" and unrelated to trends, pursuing extreme win rates—it's a wh
  - **Bruuuuuuce** (2025-04-23T16:52:33.000Z): From a quantitative perspective, medium to long-term market timing is almost impossible in our industry. If someone can actually do this with a considerable win rate, I believe they must possess super
- **MonkeyHunter · 2025-04-23T16:00:57.000Z**: Got it
- **新用户_lQrC0 · 2025-04-23T15:47:22.000Z**: You talk too much, I believe you
- **空者多也 · 2025-04-23T15:19:51.000Z**: Got it
- **胜利油田 · 2025-04-23T15:10:13.000Z · 👍 1**: Makes perfect sense, the market is full of uncertainty. Recently been reading The Intelligent Investor.
- **小成 · 2025-04-23T15:01:50.000Z**: Thanks for sharing, I really learned a lot, 🙏
- **这个号暂时不用了 · 2025-04-23T12:42:43.000Z**: Thank you
- **村里的潮巴 · 2025-04-23T07:53:41.000Z**: Got it, hehe, understood