How Do You Start to Build Your Stock Trade System? 📉📈
Buffett’s ~30% annualized return might look “boring” compared to jawdropping returns in our community, but stable compounding is how he went from $100k → $147B.
Now contrast that with retail investors (maybe you’ve been there):
Saw a “hot pick”, YOLO’d in, then watched it crash.
Bought at the top because of FOMO, sold at the bottom out of fear.
Buffett: $100k → $147B. Me: $100k → $2k… in one hour.
This is the cost of no system—you’re basically gambling with headlines and emotions.
A stock trading system doesn’t mean predicting the future—it means:
Rules for when to enter & exit
Knowing your position size
Reviewing mistakes and tweaking your playbook
Questions:
Ever had a “$100k → $2k” type moment? What did you learn from it?
How did you build your own system?
Learning through practice or build rules first, trading the next?
Or do you plan to start to build a system?
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My system is quite simple: I enter and exit based on EMA lines, while also using recent support and resistance levels as confirmation. Before making any move, I run through my risk management plan — calculating the risk-reward ratio to make sure the trade makes sense. This has helped me avoid many reckless entries.
That said, my biggest challenge is still controlling emotions. Even with rules, I sometimes let fear or greed push me into irrational trades. This is the part I’m working on the most now, because I know discipline and emotional control are just as important as any strategy.
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I think it is impossible to build knowledge first and then put it to practise with a smal sum of money. I tend not to trade except for HK/ China stocks which tend to be volatile and sometimes beyond reason. I buy when it is sufficiently cheap and tend to sell when it has reached my set price. I might lose out on more profit but this fits my risk appetite for now. I might do more swing trading when my knowledge on technical analysis improves and my risk appetite increases as I gain more experience with trading. Risk management is key for both investing and trading.
現在將其與散戶投資者進行對比（也許您也經歷過）：
看到一個“熱門選擇”，YOLO進去，然後看着它崩潰。
因爲FOMO而在頂部買入，因爲恐懼而在底部賣出。
巴菲特：10萬美元→1470億美元。我：10萬美元→2k美元…一小時內。
Oh 。。。haven’t traded with that level of capital, so never experienced that kind of extreme loss but definitely had moments where gains flipped into losses — overconfidence is expensive。。。
Planning to stick to a +10% profit-taking system by locking in gains before a reversal — small gains beat total losses
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My HNW friend was commenting me for not giving my RM some business.Hence I told his advice and handed SGD100K to my RM to buy UT - US & China portfolio. It was the biggest mistake of my life.
Last year, my RM suggested that I take a leverage to buy TLT and cut loss on my under water or deep sea China UT . I told him - please leave me alone and I will manage my loss. I m in the state of “ rob peter to pay paul”. A few of my high risk UTs are generating good profit.Thus, my loss is narrowing.
The SGD30K loss has made me so immune to any crashes in the market. Instead, I, no longer, penny wise pound foolish.I will look at SG market depth and determine the possibility of getting my stock. If by paying an extra of SGD50-500 will ensure my taking, I will go for it. Get the stock and wait for my dividends.
Bought a SG counter today. I m SGD3-4K away from KPI SGD36K dividend.Still have 4months to chiong!🤭
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股票交易系統並不意味着預測未來——它意味着：
何時進入和退出的規則
瞭解您的頭寸規模
回顧錯誤並調整您的行動手冊
后来我开始慢慢搭建属于自己的交易系统。不是一蹴而就，而是从最简单的规则开始：仓位控制、设定止损、不盲目追高。这些看似基础，但真正做到并不容易。实践中我发现，只有规则能帮我在情绪最混乱的时候保持冷静，比如股价连续下跌时，不会因为恐惧而盲卖，而是回到系统判断。
至于学习路径，我更偏向“边实践边修正”。刚开始不可能设计出完美的系统，很多问题只有真实交易后才会暴露。复盘和总结变得很重要，每一次亏损我都会问自己：是规则的问题，还是我没有遵守？前者就调整，后者就加强纪律。
现在的我还在不断打磨，但至少不会再因为一时冲动把本金砍掉九成。我觉得建立系统就像练功，不是为了一夜暴富，而是为了在市场的长期游戏里活下来。
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