交易心理：做一個健康的交易員

對於大多數人來說，無論你做什麼工作，健康都是重中之重。作為一個交易員，你可能已經體會過交易的壓力。事實上，交易之中，壓力無處不在，尤其是長期的壓力會損害交易員的健康。所有的重大疾病甚至早逝都與長期壓力有關。沒有交易員能夠擺脫壓力的困擾，但是有些方法能夠幫助你對抗壓力、保持健康。

鍛煉身體

我們都知道鍛煉有益於身體健康，鍛煉在對抗壓力中扮演著特殊的角色。哈佛醫學博士John Ratey稱有氧運動是一種神奇的藥品，能夠增強心髒跳動，是緩解壓力的最佳方式之一。調查顯示，堅持鍛煉不僅會降低壓力帶來的風險，也會緩解長期壓力帶來的焦慮和抑郁。事實上，慢跑與百憂解等治療精神抑郁的藥物擁有同樣的效果。

除此之外，鍛煉還會提高交易員的學習能力。Ratey 博士將有氧運動成為大腦“生長劑”。因為鍛煉釋放出的化學物質能夠影響神經系統，幫助學習和記憶。研究結果顯示，學生在課前做廣播操，學習成績就會提高17%。如果你想對市場有更深入的了解，在研究圖表之前先走走步吧。

冥想

冥想是另一個直接減壓的方法。冥想是一種古老的心智練習，可以為我們開拓出一片精神空間，在這裡，我們可以看到、感受到那些一閃而過的事物或念頭。冥想可以讓我們看到大腦制造出的交易時的恐懼、焦慮以及壓力，盡管這些可能並沒有反應在現實活動中。你曾擔心賣出後市場會繼續上漲，你曾擔心自己會因此而虧損，你有多少次是從這樣的恐懼中走過來的。

冥想可能會對我們產生多方面的積極影響。對普通冥想者進行腦補掃描，會發現大腦的恐懼中心——杏仁核在縮小。從交易心理來講，冥想是防止被情緒控制的最有效方法，你可以專註於交易，並化解壓力帶來的緊張感。

進行足夠的有氧運動並練習冥想不僅會減少你的壓力、提高你的交易水平，還會幫助你保持健康的身體甚至延長壽命，那就有更充足的時間來享受你的交易成果了。

Trading Psychology: Be a Healthy Trader

Author: GaryDayton April 13, 2016
 
Most people would agree that being healthy is one of the most important things in your life, whatever your profession.  As a trader, you may have already experienced the stress that goes with trading.  In fact, trading is fraught with stress, and stress—especially the kind of chronic stress many traders are familiar with—can be very damaging to one’s health.  Chronic stress has been linked to all the major diseases and may cause premature death.  No trader is free from the stresses of trading.  Fortunately, there are a couple of things you can do that may effectively help you combat stress, promote your health, and, perhaps, even your longevity.

Exercise

We all know exercise supports good health, and it plays a special role in stress.  If we could bottle aerobic exercise, says Harvard MD John Ratey, we’d have a miracle drug.  Aerobic exercise such as jogging, swimming, biking and other activities that get your heart pumping, is one of the most effective things we can do for stress.  Research has shown that consistent aerobic exercise not only significantly reduces stress and its ill effects, but it can also be highly effective in dealing with anxiety and depression—frequent companions of chronic stress.  In fact, jogging is just as effective as Prozac and the other medications designed for depression and anxiety.

As a side benefit important to traders, aerobic exercise also aids in learning.  In this regard, Dr. Ratey calls aerobic exercise “Miracle Grow” for the brain.  Exercise releases neurochemicals that help us learn and remember.  Research has shown that students improve academic performance by 17% in only one semester with a period of calisthenics before classes.  If you really want to learn how to read the markets, jog before your study your charts.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is another way to directly reduce the stress in our lives.  Mindfulness is an ancient mental practice that helps us cultivate a mental space where we see our thoughts and feelings as just thoughts and feelings that quickly pass, not something permanent or even something we must respond to.  Mindfulness helps us to see that fear, anxiety and the stresses of trading are really manufactured in the mind and often don’t reflect reality.  How many times, for example, have you gotten out of a trade for fear of losing money and the market continued to move in your direction?

Mindfulness positively affects us on multiple levels.  It is an effective stress buster.  One of the best stress reduction programs for people who are otherwise mentally healthy but have high stress is based on mindfulness.  Brain scan research of ordinary people taught mindfulness shows that the brain’s fear center—theamygdala—actually shrinks with the practice of mindfulness and connections between the fear center and other brain regions that interpret and control our fear response strengthen.  These actual changes in the brain correlate strongly with reported reduction in stress.  From the perspective of trading psychology, mindfulness is the most effective method to learn not to become hijacked by emotions and keep yourself focused on what is important for your trading, while at the same time dissolving the tensions and strain we feel from stress.

Getting enough aerobic exercise and practicing mindfulness will not only reduce your stress and help you trade better, but they may also help maintain your health and potentially live longer, so you can enjoy the results of your trading to the fullest.
 
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