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BPA trading room Q&A: May 15, 2015
BPA 交易室问答：2015年5月15日
Al, what do you think about paper trading in a simulated account? Once a trader knows how to use the platform, is it a help or a hindrance to become a profitable trader? I sim trade a lot, and I’m not sure if it has a positive effect. Audio duration: 2min 54sec
Al，你对模拟账户的纸上交易有什么看法？一旦交易者学会了如何使用平台，这对成为盈利交易者来说是帮助还是阻碍？我做了很多模拟交易，但不确定这是否有积极效果。音频时长：2分54秒
Audio transcript
音频文字稿
Paper trading vs live trading
模拟交易 vs 实盘交易
I don’t have any problem with sim trading. I’ve done it; everybody has done it. I personally don’t like it because I cheat, I lie. Not in general; when I’m talking to people, I don’t cheat and lie, but if I’m sim trading, I’m talking to myself and I lie. I lie all the time. So it’s easy to tell myself, “Oh, I would take that,” or “I would not take that,” or “Oh, I took a bad trade and I lost, and maybe I should delete that trade because it was really one I should not have taken.” And you end up erasing—or I end up coming up with reasons for why all my losing trades were trades I really wouldn’t have taken if I were paying more attention or if I really was concentrating on it.
我对模拟交易没有任何问题；我做过，大家都做过。我个人不喜欢它，因为我在模拟交易时会作弊、说谎。不是说我在和人交流时会说谎，但在模拟交易时，我其实是在和自己说话，我说谎个不停。于是我总是对自己说：“哦，我本来会进场的”，或者“我本来不会进场的”，或者“哦，我做了个亏损的交易，也许我应该删掉它，因为这本来就不是我该做的单子”。最后我不是把这些交易删掉，就是给自己找理由，说如果我更专注的话，这些亏损交易我根本不会做。
And all my winners, I look at them and say “Oh, yeah… I was also trading in my real accounts, and therefore, I couldn’t focus on my simulated account, and I took profits earlier than I normally would have taken”, and it’s just all lying to myself. For me, that’s my problem with simulated trading: it’s just really easy to lie to yourself all the time, and make yourself believe that the way you’re trading it is not the way you would trade it if it was real money.
至于我的盈利交易，我看着它们会说：“哦，是啊……我当时也在真实账户里交易，所以没法专注在模拟账户上，我提前止盈了，比正常情况下早。”这全是在自己撒谎。对我来说，模拟交易的问题就在于：随时很容易对自己撒谎，让自己相信自己在这种交易方式下的表现，实际上若是真金白银的话，我根本不会这样操作。
Forex accounts — low cost trading tution
Forex 账户 — 低成本交易学费
I think one of the nice things about Forex markets is that you get to trade a very small account with very little risk, and I think trading real money is always better than trading pretend money because it’s just harder to lie. The dollars are truth.
我认为 Forex 市场的一个好处是，你可以用很小的资金、很低的风险进行交易，而且我相信用真金白银交易总是比用假盘交易好，因为后者更容易让自己说谎。美元是说真话的。
And for Forex accounts, you can trade 10,000 units and you can say, “Well, Al, if I make 10 pips on 10,000 units, I only make $10.” That’s right, you only make $10. On the other hand, you’re not going to go broke doing it, so to me, it greatly reduces the cost of tuition as you learn to become a trader, so I think that is a big advantage to Forex accounts. And there’s enough movement during the day in the different markets, especially if you stick with the major markets, like the Euro versus the Dollar, the Euro versus the Yen, the Dollar versus the Yen. Those are probably the big three. I also trade the Dollar versus the Canadian, the Australian dollar versus the Dollar, the British pound, the Swiss franc.
而且，对于 Forex 账户，你可以交易 1 万单位，可以说：“嗯，Al，如果我在 1 万单位上赚了 10 点，我只有 10 美元。”没错，你只有 10 美元。不过你做这种交易不会破产，所以在我看来，这大大降低了你学习成为交易者的学费成本，我认为这是 Forex 账户的一大优势。并且，尤其是如果你专注于主要品种，比如欧元/美元、欧元/日元、美元/日元，一天内会有足够的波动。这些大概就是最重要的三个。我也会交易美元/加元、澳元/美元、英镑、瑞郎。
But there are enough choices and there’s enough movement so that if you’re starting out, my thought is if I were in that position, I would rather trade real money in a Forex account trading 10,000 units than paper trading—anything else because of that lie factor. I think it becomes more important if you have real money at risk, even if the real money is very small.
但市场上有足够多的选择和足够的波动，所以如果你刚开始交易，我的想法是，如果我处于那个位置，我宁愿在一个外汇账户里用10,000单位交易真实资金，也不愿做模拟交易——因为模拟交易有那种虚假感。我认为当你有真实资金面临风险时，这一点变得更加重要，即使那笔真实资金非常小。
So to me, my thought is I would rather have a trader trade a Forex account with a very small position size than a simulated account, just so that they get comfortable with real money. The emotions are different if it’s real money. Even if it’s small real money, I think the emotions are different if you have real money at risk.
所以，我认为，我宁愿让交易者用非常小的仓位去交易外汇账户，也不愿让他们用模拟账户交易，只是为了让他们适应真实的资金。如果是真实的资金，情绪就会不一样。即使是小额的真实资金，我认为如果你有真实的资金风险，情绪也会不一样。
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