Thinking of a friend I've collaborated with for over twenty years, this guy's background is quite interesting—dual expertise in finance and economics. His daily routine involves reading news, analyzing reports, and researching data. This habit, cultivated over decades, makes opportunities seem almost trivial to him. But because of this, one common flaw of his becomes especially noticeable: his execution ability is always just a bit off. Entering the market too early or too late, exiting at the wrong time—those opportunities that look huge often yield only modest returns, and he’s never experienced that thrill of catching a fish from start to finish.

The turning point began in February this year. He adopted a complete quantitative trading system, but the process was interesting—he didn’t just hand everything over to the system; he maintained a hybrid approach. First, relying on his professional experience and fundamental analysis to determine whether to go long or short on a certain asset, then he would set the conditions for the system to execute. Since then, he’s been comfortable trading indices, rebar, iron ore, gold, silver, and crude oil—all with a unified strategy: only long positions, no shorts.

His logic is very clear: having seen the top of crude oil, the bottom of silver and gold, his overall judgment is that the global trend remains accommodative, with massive cheap money ultimately pushing asset prices higher. Since the trend is upward, he follows the momentum and goes long; shorting is essentially fighting the trend and courting disaster. Once the macro fundamentals are set, he then focuses on detailed operations.

How does he do it specifically? He uses technical analysis combined with market volatility tools, reviewing all assets daily to find two types of opportunities: one is a bottoming signal, the other is a rebound after hitting a key support level. After identifying suitable targets, he sets the system to go long unilaterally, aggressively add positions, and split the capital evenly. He doesn’t set take-profit or stop-loss levels but only activates intelligent stop-loss.

Later, I learned this approach from him. Starting in April, I also followed this logic, but I chose a different method—I don’t fuss much over market ups and downs because ultimately, all opinions boil down to technical issues; there’s not much to say about it. Since then, my entire operation has become a standardized process—judging and executing trades mechanically every day. The previous situation of missing opportunities due to poor execution has gradually decreased significantly.