Where Are My Flowers? $4,387 In Open Profits & Why Markets Crush Stock Traders

I opened 4 new positions with 1 still ongoing from last week.

We are sitting on open profits of $4,387

Not a bad way to kick off the week.

I’ve been watching this stock, Rocket Companies Inc (NYSE: RKT), for a while.

And finally pulled the trigger after I got the price I wanted.

Then it blew up this noon.

So I moved my stop loss to the break-even point.

I’ll explain how I picked these opportunities later.

But first…

We need to talk about something far more important!

Ever noticed how it’s ALWAYS…

“Zhi where are my flowers?? 😡“

And never “Zhi here are some flowers xxx“

Half joking here.

When I was a wee young lad… I used to HATE buying flowers.

I didn’t see the point.

You spend money.

They die.

One day that changed.

I was on a date and some street vendor, this tiny old grandma, started harassing us to buy roses.

Eventually I caved.

You can’t out-haggle a grandma. They’ve been around the block.

After making the purchase, it hit me.

It’s all about the gesture.

A rose blooms bright and fierce…

Then withers.

Then dies.

That’s what makes it beautiful.

Just like our time on this planet.

The fact that everything ends, you, me, the buildings around us, the memories…

Is what makes life beautiful.

I often think that the gods must be jealous of us.

They must be bored out of their mind!

Imagine living for an eternity - everything would lose it’s meaning.

But because of our time limit…

Our day to day choices, the fleeting acts, and our thoughts will echo and ripple through humanity.

Anyways, just some late night thoughts.

Back to business.

I started trading after I made my first million dollars as an advertiser.

And what surprised me was this:

The fundamentals of advertising and the fundamentals of trading are similar.

In advertising, your job is simple:

You anticipate what the market wants.

You watch behavior, not your own opinions.

You let data determine the truth.

Speculation is identical.

But beginners in both worlds make the same fatal mistake:

They force their hopes onto the market.

“I want this stock to go up.”

“I think this ad should work.”

“The customers want this.“

“This should bounce.”

There is no should.

As the late and great Jesse Livermore said:

“There is no bull market or bear market, only the right side of the market.”

The market doesn’t care about your hopes, your fantasies, or your ‘gut feelings’.

The market wants what the market wants.

Your job is simply to get in alignment with it.

You should only make an entry after the market has SHOWN you what it wants.

And unlike advertising, where you need to risk $1,000… $2,000… sometimes $5,000 just to test what the market wants.

In trading, you don’t have to guess.

The price tells you everything.

Every tick, every candle, every move is real-time feedback from millions of decisions being made in the market.

That is the beauty of the stock market, and your one true advantage.

You’re never predicting or guessing.

You’re observing.

And if you learn to read price correctly, you can exploit that advantage to the maximum.

Talk Soon,

Zhihao Huang

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