If you have been trading profitably for 120 consecutive days and your account has doubled dozens of times, will you feel that you have reached the threshold of stable profitability?
Trader Ma Xu has touched it. But on the night when Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in 2023, a wave of unilateral market prices directly took away nearly 770,000 US dollars in his account, and all confidence was wiped out along with it.
In today's EagleTrader trader interview, let us follow Ma Xu's experience and see how traders who can really survive in the market overcome the darkest moments?
After making profits for 120 consecutive days, it returned to zero overnight
Ma Xu was using the grid Martin strategy. He recalled, "I encountered the first Silicon Valley Bank failure. In 2023, at that time, I had not had a loss for 120 consecutive working days, and my account had increased dozens of times."
The account contains not only his own money, but also money from relatives, friends, and clients, totaling nearly 770,000 US dollars inside and outside.
That night, the unilateral market price directly penetrated the endurance limit of Grid Martin.
"I lost my position and didn't sleep all night. When I woke up the next morning, I got out of bed and saw a human figure on the sheets. My whole body was covered in sweat, and the mattress was wet with sweat."
In the interview, he was asked if he had ever thought about giving up. He said: "I have. This kind of thinking is normal. I have no choice but to continue to persevere."
From "disk feeling" trading to systematic trading
Ma Xu came into contact with trading in 2017, but it was not until 2023 that he learned from the system system. In 2024, he gradually became stable and profitable. In the intervening six years, he took many detours.
Later, he happened to attend a foreign exchange expo in Zhengzhou and met a teacher through a friend’s introduction. After following him for more than a week, he truly understood what a trading system is.
“In the past, I always pursued market sense and scalping. When to open a position, when to take profit, and how big a loss is, I had no idea. After learning from the teacher, I built a complete trading system and gradually became profitable. ”
He particularly emphasized: “Stable profitability does not mean making profits every day, but making profits this year.” ”
The detours of these six years have also allowed him to conclude a truth: “I think the most important trading system is not to lose money. As long as I make a profit, I will protect the principal and lose the money. The only reason for you to survive is to ensure that the principal is not lost first. ”
Breakthrough with the trend + three-cycle resonance
When it comes to specific strategies, Ma Xu’s main strategy is: break with the trend and resonate with the three-cycle.
The big cycle determines the direction. For example, 4 hours is short, 1 hour is also short, 15 A rectangular platform is formed in minutes, and if it falls below it, open a short position.
"When the trend is downward at 15 minutes or 1 hour, if there is a pullback and the key point is not broken, and a reversal signal appears, I will enter the market to protect my capital and stop the loss in two or three minutes. "
The stop loss level can be set to 20, 30, 40 or 50 points. But in the volatile market of gold, if he sees a profit of five or ten dollars, he will run first. "Because it is not a smooth market, I will not hold it for long. ”
He added the details of the three-cycle resonance: After falling from a high level and starting to fluctuate in 4 hours, the direction is short, only short and not long; even if it rebounds upward in 15 minutes or even 1 hour, choose to wait and see. Only wait for the 1-hour direction to trend downward, and the 15-minute correction does not break the key level. Only when a reversal signal appeared did he enter the market to go short.
He also restored a case during the assessment: "The price fell back to around 4075, without breaking the key level above, and the short order was placed and the profit was taken smoothly. Then the price fell back to around 4067 again, and the short order was continued, and the price fell again and the profit was taken.
For the third list, I judged that it would break through 60, and the result wasIf I set a capital loss at 58, it would kill me when it comes back. Finally, the position of 4041 was a key point. If it broke through the 4-hour cycle, I thought there would be a big market. I opened a position at 39 and finally got $18. ”
There are no mysterious predictions. Ma Xu's strategy is all about positioning, position breaking, execution, capital preservation, and profit taking, a logical closed loop.
After the stop loss, the market returns, do you regret it?
Ma Xu's risk control is extremely strict, and the single-day loss is controlled at 1%.Single transaction is controlled within 0.6%.
We asked him: If the market comes back immediately after stopping the loss, will he regret it? He said: "As long as you can live with this thing, you will have no regrets."
"In the situation you mentioned, the market is good again, and you go in your direction, but when you lose, your mentality collapses. Is it possible that you do the opposite? There are more profits and more opportunities. Waiting for you to turn around, you don't have to get a result today."
Now, he rarely has major emotional fluctuations due to a single profit or loss. "I no longer feel happy about the profit and sad about the loss."
After experiencing a liquidation and rebuilding the system, Ma Xu chose to take the EagleTrader proprietary trading exam. For him, what traders need most is not continuous profits, but a system that can be executed for a long time. EagleTrader's examination and profit-sharing mechanism just gave him an environment to constrain himself by rules and verify strategies at low cost.
So far, Ma Xu has received US$2,600 in profits from EagleTrader. This profit may not be amazing, but it is the real return after Ma Xu strictly implemented the trading system.
From the human figure on the bed sheet to engraving "capital preservation" into the system, Ma Xu completed a painful transformation. Only if you can maintain discipline after the pain has passed, you can survive longer in this market.
As he himself said: "The only reason for you to survive is to ensure that your principal is not lost first."
If you also want to complete a transformation by relying on rules, the EagleTrader proprietary trading exam may be a growth platform worth knowing about.
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