文档介绍：PREFACE
Traders talk amongst themselves, not necessarily to discuss bullish or bearish market opinions, but rather to share insights into the nature and quirkiness of this business. The mental toll trading exacts definitely forms bonds. When we open up it is always surprising to discover the similarity of lessons learned, experiences shared, and how we all independently arrive at the same conclusions. Often in talking with each other we're really looking for clues into our own heads, hoping to understand ourselves a little better.
Despite our constant pursuit of knowledge, the market itself assures there is no shortcut to obtaining our final degree. In the end, it is experience which is our ultimate teacher and there is no substitute. We can only choose the attitude with which we approach this process of learning to trade. We can accept the inevitable setbacks and learn from them, or we can yield to our natural human stubbornness and be forced to repeat the same lessons over and over again.
This book has been written by two people who e to enjoy the process. We've both discovered we are not the only ones to have made certain mistakes and we've also discovered the same secrets to ess ... which we hope to share with you. The single most important secret is this: learn to listen to the markets and do not impose your own will upon them.
Every essful trader we have known has also discovered the necessity for consistency. It is the key to everything-you must trade with a coherent methodology. You must follow a specific trading strategy. Although this book presents multiple strategies, each and every one has the same essential starting point: minimizing risk first, looking to maximize gains only after risk has been defined and controlled.
Between us we have 34 years of experience as floor traders, exchange members, traders on institutional desks, hedge fund managers, modity trading advisors-trading for our own accounts the entire time. We hit it off well because our n