The fish swimming in groups in the sea are chaotic and orderly. With ocean currents and food, it is uniform; When hunters attack, they suddenly gather and disperse, just like an organization with strict division of labor and cooperation.

However, fish are not as developed as brains and nerves. They do not form a whole through conscious organization and arrangement, but through simple evolutionary instinct. There is a special color side line on both sides of the fish's body. Each fish takes 1 and the lateral lines of two companions around it as observation marks, and adjusts its swimming direction and speed to keep an appropriate distance. This simple negative feedback mechanism forms a specific self-organization mode of the whole group of fish.

Fish, swimming alone and in a school of fish, have different interests and safety. It is blind to act alone, and there is no guarantee of hunting and avoiding hunters. In the school of fish, one fish finds food, and through the lateral feedback mechanism, the whole group of fish seems to get information, achieving the effect of collective foraging. When a hunter approaches the attack, the fish on the edge of the fish swarm will have a quick escape action, and the whole fish swarm will suddenly disperse through the lateral feedback mechanism.

The gathering of fish is both a temptation and a trap for hunters, sharks and whales. There seems to be a lot of prey, but when you jump on it, it's hard to get anything. On the one hand, the flashing scales on the fish will interfere and distract the hunter's attention; On the one hand, when the fish nearby flee quickly, it will give the hunter a serious psychological illusion that the fish in the distance has not been found yet, so he pounces on another object. Who knows, the lateral feedback mechanism will make the distant fish escape faster. The result is that you can't find a specific goal and get nothing.

The evolution of prey will also promote the progress of hunters. In order to deal with fish, hunters also improved their hunting methods, instead of hunting alone, they formed organizational cooperation and rounded up collectively. Many sharks approach the school of fish from all directions, but they don't attack. Instead, they use the lateral feedback mechanism of fish schools to drive them close to the water surface. Then, the sharks work together, some continue to carry out the drive-away mission to prevent the fish from fleeing, and some rush into the fish to hunt. Hunters rely on this cooperation and take turns eating. Whales also have a trick, high-speed jet and jump out of the water to beat, make small fish dizzy, and then eat leisurely.

What can this fish school effect give us?

In the stock market, facing the stock, we are hunters; In front of the organization, we are small fish.

I often have this experience myself. When the market is relatively calm, I can find a few exotic stocks in time, and I can follow them calmly. When the market is generally rising and busy, I often lose my goal-it seems that there are opportunities everywhere, but it seems to be very general-it is difficult to determine the specific goal, and I can't start, or chase around, and I get nothing or little. -just like a hunter facing a fish.

In front of institutions, we are fish and they are hunters. Whether individual stock makers fish or fish with bait. For the macro bookmakers or bookmakers' alliance (which is often organized by themselves rather than artificially), they are like hunters, and we are the fish, which is the object of their hunting.

We are also looking at the fork of peers-the so-called money-making effect-leading to collective trend behavior. At the same time, each of us has our own different microenvironment, and everyone has different feelings and judgments because of different situations, different stocks, different performance, different profits and losses, and different expectations. Our judgment and decision-making are inevitably influenced by our personality, situation and collective effect. Hunters rely on this effect to lure and drive us away; We also use our group feedback to disturb us from all directions, leaving us at a loss, thus achieving the effect of attracting, driving away, disturbing and rounding up.

So what lessons should we learn from it to avoid being chased and rounded up?

1 is the law of learning and understanding. Only by mastering the law can we consciously and actively overcome and apply it.

2. Form a clear discipline. Discipline is not only necessary, but also the key is clear and can't be changed all the time. The point is to quit greed and care too much. This is a weapon against hunters.

3. Have a clear goal. The clearer the target, the more likely it is to avoid being disturbed by prey. -this is a strategy to deal with prey groups.

4, round-up and anti-round-up. To deal with prey, take a combination of specific targets; To deal with hunters, we should give up the pursuit of short-term and efficiency. The premise is to know the basic laws and abstain from greed.

The competition for survival has always been so cruel. The struggle between prey and hunter is the speed of evolution and adaptation. Experience and mode are always narrow, and we should have a basic sense of change.