mikewu69

General speaking, there are more than indicators or your personal strategies to let your lose. The lose factors: asset allocation, money management, psychology, trading tactics, trade management, taxed, computers/network issues, research, gurus, chatrooms, brokers, trade routing, commissions, fine prints, market makeers/specialist.....................................

1. Volatility kills=Stop is a Sure way to lose: when you want to enter a point, it is better to think to exit. reverse thinking is best way to keep lose. that is big trick for the market the normal concepts lose all your funtune. Stop ST is a sure way to lose (some guys to use ATR to avoid the lose, this is wshh commment).
2. Risking more than your account size is a sure way to lose. it is easy to figure it.
3. "Seat of the pants" or hold for long run is sure way to lose. when you feel good and don't care your position, usually it is the end of a run.
4. Follow a gurus like WSHH is a sure way to lose. you never know 100% timing and even if your know the truth, your personality isn't a copy form gurus.
5. Insiders are a sure way to lose. when you saw the insider buying, it is too late to do that. and now the insider situation is very differetn from the year before 2000.
6. Timing the market is a sure way to lose. Market seems always against human mass.
7. strategy trading is a sure way to lose. there is no such a perfect and last for more than 1 year computer system to make money nowadays. according to the statitics.
8. Trading without plan with most of mass is a sure way to lose. That is just a gambling comparing with Casino that is only 1-2% winners.
9. Daytrading is a sure way to lose. Day traders kill each others for sure.
10. Never taking stop loss, heheheheh, that is a big sure way to lose.
11. Buying a Hot stocks just based the hot news is a sure way to lose. the price usually against you immediately.
12. After win small and get dizzed to trade more is a sure way to lose. Stay humble is a always the way to keep win.
13. Trading with a book/courses/cd/system vendors/ad are sure way to lose.
14. Half research or totally ignorance is a sure way to lose.
15.No personal style or phylosopy or methods are a sure way to lose.
16. Verifyint your trading strategy or system according to an existed system, you will lose for sure even if the existed system made money.
17.Emothion is a sure way to lose. also emothionlessness is a sure way to lose. I learnt many year to get the emothin control or uncontrol.
18. Over confidence is a sure way to lose.
19. No double checking your statement from your brokers is a sure way to lose.
20. No review your traders after the trading day is a sure way to lose. remember the chart changed at night.
21.Congratulatiing yourself on how well you nailed the tops and bottoms is also a sure way to lose. The god can't let you know the exact tops or bottoms. and it reinforces the bad habit or calling exact tops and exact bottoms.
22. Complicated MM is a sure way to lose. always simple is the best.
23. Not keeping a accurated recored of your traders is a sure way to lose.
24. Believing lines on your chart are absolute is a sure way to lose. There is no future lines at all except the past.
25. Going against the trend is a sure way to lose.
26.Becoming the whale in any stocks is a suer way to lose. diversification has always been rule nubmer one to big money but not for small. I usually buy 10 stocks at once at last out of them only left 1-2.
27. if you don't know the real meannig of 10 rules, that is a sure way to lose

也许现在你开始明白，投资并不像在渔场里钓鱼那么简单。你必须清醒的认识到，在投资的时候，如果一笔生意听起来好得让人难以置信，那这笔生意的确不值得置信。如果你曾经是一名失败的投资者，那么现在值得欣慰的是，世界上还有很多人同你一样；值得注意的是：如果你不面对现实，重新调整你的投资计划，你将会再次陷入失败当中。

　　所以，我们给出了投资的10条戒律，它们将有助于你保持清醒的头脑，更多的作出正确的投资判断：

　　第一，投资不是多人游戏，而是一个人的游戏。你必须自己作出判断。想投资，那就自己好好的研究你将要进行的交易；

　　第二，不要期望过高。当然，期望你的投资每五分钟能翻一倍，作为梦想是无可厚非的。但你要清醒的认识到，这是一个非常不现实的梦想。记住：如果年平均回报率能达到10％，就非常幸运了。

　　第三：不要被虚张的股票所迷惑。记住，公司的股票同公司是有区别的，有时候股票只是一家公司不真实的影子而已。所以应该多向经纪人询问股票的安全性。

　　第四：不要低估风险。“风险”不仅仅是两个字而已，它值得每一个投资者足够的重视。所以，一个重要的原则就是，在购买股票之前，不要先问“我能赚多少”，而要先问“我最多能亏多少”。这就是为什么大家都去购买思科的股票时，Warren~ Buffett却购买DairyQueen的。这条小心翼翼的戒律在最近几年好象已经不流行了，但坚信这条戒律的投资者们至少还是保住了自己的钱。

　　第五：在不知道该买哪一支股票或者为什么要买这支股票的时候，坚决不要买。这一点尤其重要，先把事情搞懂再说。这印证了投资大师彼德·林奇的一句名言：一个公司如果你不能用一句话把它描述出来的话，它的股票就不要去买。

　　第六：资金才是硬道理。当你把目光投向一些现在正在衰败的公司的时候，这点尤其重要。

　　第七：不要轻信债务大于公司资金的公司。一些公司通过发行股票或借贷来支付股东红利，但是他们总有一天会陷入困境。

　　第八：不要把鸡蛋放在一个篮子里。除非你有亏不完的钱，否则就应该就听我一句话：不要把所有的投资都放在一家或两家公司上，也不要相信那种只关注一个行业的投资公司。虽然把宝押在一个地方可能会带来巨大的收入，但也会带来同样巨大的亏损。这次投资科技公司的投资者们最了解这一点。

　　第九：不要忘记，除了盈利以外，没有任何一个其它标准可以用来衡量一个公司的好坏。无论分析家和公司怎样吹嘘，记住这条规则，盈利就是盈利，这是唯一的标准。

　　第十：如果对一支股票产生了怀疑，不要再坚持，及早放弃吧。
28. if you don't believe the Gann 28 rules, that is a sure way to lose
Gann’s 28 Trading Rules
1. Amount of capital to use: Divide your capital into 10 equal parts and never risk more than one-tenth of your capital on any one trade.
2. Use stop loss orders. Always protect a trade when you make it with a stop loss order 1¢ to 3¢ away, never more than 5¢ (grains); in cotton 20 to 40 points away, never more than 60 points.
3. Never overtrade. This would be violating your capital rules.
4. Never let a profit become a loss. After you have a profit of 3¢ or more (grains), raise your stop loss order so that you will have no loss of capital. For cotton when profits are 60 points or more, place a stop where there will be no loss.
5. Do not buck the trend. Never buy or sell if you are not sure of the trend according to your charts and rules.
6. When in doubt, get out, and don’t get in when in doubt.
7. Trade only in active markets. Keep out of slow, dead ones.
8. Equal distribution of risk. Trade in two or three different commodities if possible. Avoid tying up all your capital in any one commodity.
9. Never limit your orders or fix a buying or selling price. Trade at the market.
10. Don’t close your trades without a good reason. Follow up with a stop loss order to protect your profits.
11. Accumulate a surplus. After you have made a series of successful trades, put money into a surplus account to be used in emergency or in times of panic.
12. Never buy or sell just to get a scalping profit.
13. Never average a loss. This is one of the worst mistakes a trade can make.
14. Never get out of the market just because you have lost patience or get into the market because you are anxious from waiting.
15. Avoid taking small profits and big losses.
16. Never cancel a stop loss after you have placed it at the time you make a trade.
17. Avoid getting in and out of the market too often.
18. Be just as willing to sell short, as you are to buy. Let your object be to keep with the trend and make money.
19. Never buy just because the price of a commodity is low or sell short just because the price is high.
20. Be careful about pyramiding at the wrong time. Wait until the commodity is very active and has crossed resistance levels before buying more and until it has broken out of the zone of distribution before selling more.
21. Select the commodities that show a strong uptrend to pyramid on the buying side and the ones that show a definite downtrend to sell short.
22. Never hedge. If you are long one commodity and it starts to go down, do not sell another commodity short to hedge it. Get out at the market. Take your loss and wait for another opportunity.
23. Never change your position in the market without a good reason. When you make a trade, let it be for some good reason or according to some definite rule; then do not get out without a definite indication of a change in trend.
24. Avoid increasing your trading after a long period of success or a period of profitable trades.
25. Don’t guess when the market is at a top. Let the market prove it is a top. Don’t guess when the market is at a bottom. Let the market prove it is a bottom. By following definite rules, you can do this.
26. Do not follow another’s advice unless you know that he knows more than you.
27. Reduce trading after the first loss, never increase.
28. Avoid getting in wrong and out wrong or getting in right and out wrong. This is making a double mistake.
29.Not plainning for a drawdown causes panic is a sure way to lose.
30.Information overload is also a sure way to lose.
31. Repeat: another way to lose for sure is to never plan for an exit.
32. Nowadays (after 2000), only look good numbers in FA is a sure way to lose.
33. Having your spouse, relatve, friends or someone else to watch your trading, discuss your trading or review your trading is a sure way to lose. Remebmer here. Advice can be only from your phylosohpy that is formed by correct decisions.
34. Without reading Jessse Livermore is a sure way to lose.

Richard

I have stock investment in canadian market with more than 30% each year for two years(2004 and 2005), very confident having the similar rate of return this year.
There must be a rule in behind, otherwise, Mr. buffet won's have $37 billion for donation.

zaiheyang

股票有风险,但说完全是陷阱绝对赔钱则言过了.毕竟还是有人在股市中赢利的.
估计楼主自己炒股赔了钱,提醒大家一下是好心,但不能夸大其辞.这样于人于己均不好.