As I watched the K-line on the screen fluctuate violently, I calmly took a sip of coffee. This 'dull' reaction is the highest wisdom I gained after eight years and multiple liquidations.
I remember when I first entered the crypto world, like most newcomers, every cell of my body reacted to price fluctuations. Adrenaline surged during skyrocketing prices, and my palms sweated during drops. A day in the crypto world is like a year in real life; this is true — but what truly ages people is not time, but the emotional highs and lows.
I have experienced three major liquidations, the most disastrous one costing me nearly 800,000, staring at the 'liquidation complete' prompt at night, I felt completely emptied. It was that night that made me begin to understand: the market tests not operational skills, but emotional stability.
01 The moment of enlightenment, realizing after losses
I once thought technical analysis was the holy grail of wealth. MACD, KDJ, Bollinger Bands... I was well-versed in various technical indicators, believing I had mastered the market’s secrets. The result was always buying and dropping, selling and rising, and my account balance was like a leaky bucket, continuously shrinking.
I once doubted that the market manipulators were just watching my small amount of chips. Later, I understood that the enemy was never the market but my own restless heart.
The turning point appeared during a forced break after a margin call. I stayed away from the market and calmly reviewed every trade from the past three years. I discovered a shocking pattern: 90% of my losses stemmed from emotional trading, and only 10% were issues with the strategy itself.
Those successful trades share common characteristics—calm when entering, unhurried when holding, and not greedy when exiting. The failed operations were all impulsive decisions driven by greed and fear.
True ‘enlightenment’ is not about finding some mysterious indicator but finally understanding what ‘resonance trading’ is. When the market rhythm, technical signals, and your mindset are in sync, profits will naturally come.
02 The ‘calm’ mindset of trading masters
After eight years of ups and downs in cryptocurrency, I have summarized three practical methods to keep the mindset ‘steady as a dog’.
Light positions control losses, never be a slave
I divide all my funds into 10 parts, with no single trade exceeding 10% of the total funds. This way, even if I incur losses, I won't suffer severe damage.
More importantly, set a stop-loss point for every trade, with a maximum single trade loss not exceeding 5% of the total account balance. This means that even if I lose ten times in a row, I can still retain half of my principal and have a chance to recover.
The survival rule in the cryptocurrency space is not to get rich quickly, but to survive through each cycle. This is not cowardice but survival wisdom.
Signal trading, avoiding emotional interference
I used to be a ‘news trader’, diving into any group with insider information, resulting in always being the one left holding the bag. Now, I only believe in three key signals:
Large order density (more than three 100,000 USDT buy orders within 15 minutes), drastic changes in long-short ratio (suddenly rising from 1.2:1 to 1.8:1), stop-loss orders released (price quickly rebounds after breaking key support).
These objective signals help me filter out market noise, making decisions simple and efficient.
Take profits in batches, lock in results
Profit not withdrawn = wasted effort. I tell my followers to consistently take 20%-30% of profits each week, locking in results, which stabilizes their psychology and improves their state.
This ‘regular harvesting’ strategy has allowed me to accumulate real wealth in a bull market and have enough ‘ammunition’ waiting for opportunities in a bear market.
03 Simple repetition is the ultimate wisdom
Those who can profit in the long term are always pursuing low-difficulty trades; while those who incur long-term losses are obsessed with high-difficulty operations.
The secret of masters is to repeatedly do simple things until they reach perfection.
Take the RSI indicator as an example, many people pursue complex methods. I only focus on one pattern—regular divergence. When the price makes a new high and the RSI makes a new low, or when the price makes a new low and the RSI makes a new high, that is the high probability entry point.
Combining candlestick patterns for double confirmation, the win rate of this simple strategy far exceeds that of complex systems. In eight years in the cryptocurrency space, the trades I made real profits from were all achieved through these simple repetitive strategies.
Trading is inherently a process of ‘giving and receiving’: abandon subjective imagination and predictions to trade strictly according to the rules; abandon counter-trend bottom fishing to truly go with the trend.
04 True masters possess ‘sensitivity’
The market never lacks opportunities; what it lacks is the patience to wait for them. In most fields, waiting may mean missing good opportunities, but in the trading world, ‘waiting for the rabbit’ is instead a top strategy.
I once hovered between 1 million and 10 million for months without breaking through. Later, I realized it was due to my overly anxious mindset. When I let go of my obsession with numbers and returned to the essence of trading, the bottleneck naturally broke through.
Now, I trade no more than twice a day, regardless of wins or losses. If I win two trades, I reduce my position by 50% the next day. If profits reach 30% of the principal, I take a mandatory break for a day.
This ‘sensitivity’ is not innate but acquired through deliberate training. It allows me to remain clear-headed and rational even in a highly volatile market.
Every time I review those trading masters' positions, I find that their commonality is not their technical skills but their sufficiently ‘stable’ mindset. Just like that individual who grew their assets from 50,000 to over 100 million, their core secret is ‘never adding positions on floating losses’, restraining human weaknesses, and harvesting millions in the ORD battle.
Those around me who have survived in the cryptocurrency space for five years all have a trading journal on their desk, recording not profit techniques but lessons from each time their mindset went out of control. Their trading interfaces are so simple it’s shocking, with preset take-profit and stop-loss orders like moral commandments that are never easily touched.
The market is like the ocean; it is useless for those who cannot swim to change swimming pools. ‘Calm’ is the most basic swimming skill.
