The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. Any Tao that can be told is not the true Tao. The Tao of investment must be explored by oneself and feel the temperature of the entire market. The Tao of investment we must achieve is pure, inaction, and one with the world.
In the field of investment, you must not act too hastily and must keep a calm mind.
Everything that is prosperous must decline, being too rigid will easily break, being too strong will lead to humiliation, being too wise will lead to injury, the full moon will wane, the sun will set, and deep love will not last long. Therefore, everything must have a limit, and the same is true in the field of investment. In the bull market, everyone is crazy, and in the bear market, everyone is miserable. But it is precisely because of this that everyone amplifies their emotions and fails to be calm. Calmness is the only thing. Investment should be like water. The highest good is like water. Water benefits all things without contention. It stays where everyone hates. Therefore, it is close to Tao. Water has no shape, but can go wherever it wants to go.
Investment should also be like water, using softness to overcome hardness, using weakness to overcome strength. We are all weak in front of the market. How can we become strong in the face of weakness? Here we are like water, changing our state of mind according to the market situation. If we do nothing, we can do everything. Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and treat all things as straw dogs; saints are not benevolent, and treat the people as straw dogs. Heaven and earth are equally fair to all things, saints are equally fair to the people, and the market is also fair to all investors. The market will not favor any investor. All investors see the same market. In the same market, how can we protect ourselves and even have smooth sailing?
Here, we must achieve the principle of simplicity. If you do nothing, you can do everything. A good mood and a good attitude will lead to an optimistic view of the future. Pessimists are always right; optimists succeed. The financial market must be a market where the strong prey on the weak. The way of heaven is to reduce the surplus and replenish the deficiency; the way of man is to reduce the deficiency and support the surplus. The financial market is not the way of heaven but the way of man. The way of man is the Matthew effect. The more you have, the more you can have. This is the 80/20 rule of the financial market. All the appearances of the financial market are the rise and fall of prices, and behind them are the games of human nature. The investment market has its own way, and everyone must pursue his own way. The last sentence: the principle of simplicity is simplicity.
