When liberated from the pain of loss
Good morning, this is Matsushita.
I have met more than ten thousand individual investors in the past.
Among them, fortunately, I have received the words of trust from hundreds of people.
One of the reasons so many individual investors trust me is that I have walked the same path as many others—starting to invest, suffering big losses, and then learning to profit.
I have had the experience of going through that journey myself.
Many investors stay in the loss zone and never seem to become profitable, but because I rose from those losses, many investors who have never met me trust me.
In these 15 years, I have had encounters with many individual investors like that, and one of the most common questions I hear from them is,
“What triggered your ability to make a profit?”
“What caused you to shift from a losing to a winning position?”
This turn from loser to winner is the turning point and trigger.
This morning, as I looked at the charts of each market as usual and remembered my past self,
today I would like to write about why I was freed from suffering.
1.5 years after I started investing, I could not understand price movements at all.
Like many individual investors today, I was desperately trying to predict where prices would go.
However, the accuracy of my forecasts did not improve at all, and day by day my money kept disappearing.
Daily life was filled with anxiety and fear, and I lived days of constant unease.
What saved me was encountering books that taught the importance of money management, and meeting a mentor who actually taught me money management techniques.
Looking back now, it is strange, but at that time I also encountered a theory of cycles to understand price fluctuations in a broad sense, which became a major turning point.
From these experiences, I gradually deepened my understanding of price movements and learned to adjust my trading points to match my targets.
I began to be able to buy at points where I wanted to buy, and to achieve the profits I targeted.
I could buy at my desired points and achieve the profits I aimed for.
This alone improved my trading accuracy, but my performance was still unstable;
by adding money management, I stopped losing.
In Sun Tzu's The Art of War, there is a saying,
“If you know the other and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles.”
This is a strategy and tactics for winning battles, and
“If you know the opponent and know yourself, you will win a hundred times without defeat.”
This tactical theory aims to create a state where you never lose, and in battle, “not losing means winning.”
Thus, by applying cycle theory to understand market price movements and by mastering money management to control losses and gains,
I became an investor who does not lose.
This realization liberated me from the suffering and fear I had felt until then.
Even now, investing and trading remain intimidating, and I still pursue trading precision,
but the initial unseen suffering and fear have disappeared from my life.
This was, quite literally, a transformation where the world itself changed.
For me, money management and understanding price fluctuations were the factors that brought about that change.
If you can imagine price movements with a certain degree of accuracy and can control your own funds,
the market and investing become not fear but a bright daily scenery.
Unfortunately, many domestic investors cannot see that bright scenery in the market or in investing,
and, like my past self, they struggle in a dark world of fear and suffering.
That is not happiness, and investing should not be this way, and our lives and days should not be like this.
Therefore, I will continue to teach
“Money management and understanding price fluctuations.”
Because that is what freed me from suffering and fear,
and pulled me from a dark world into a bright one,
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Those who are suffering from losses, please learn quickly and free yourself from suffering.
