There's really no point in getting jealous about how much others are making, how deep their pockets are, or how insane their ROI is, or even if they just happened to catch the right wave.
In investing, whether it's a year or a couple of years, the differences can be pretty glaring—you might see someone flipping their portfolio overnight, while others struggle for years; some stack profits with big capital, while others ride crazy gains like they’re using cheats. But once you stretch your view to five years, ten years, or even longer, those apparent disparities often get smoothed out by time.
Luck might score you a bargain, but eventually, you’ll pay the price for not having the right insight; leveraging your wins can backfire, and a single sharp market shakeup could wipe out both your principal and interest; the hype driven by bull runs will eventually settle back to your real level.
There’s no shortage of bright examples that eventually dim—some were once unstoppable, only to later suffer huge losses; others shone in one bull market but vanished in the next bear; and then there are those who bet big and crashed because of the same reckless courage.
So the hardest part of investing has never been about how explosive your annual returns are, but rather, after many years, can you still stand firm in this game?
Everyone has their own rhythm; some harvest early, while others awaken later; some rise before crashing, while others endure before winning. What really matters isn’t whether you rode a specific wave, but whether you can continuously refine yourself, dodge those potentially deadly pitfalls, protect your capital, and maintain your mindset.
At the end of the day, investing isn’t about short-term bursts of strength; it’s about whether you can withstand the cyclical ups and downs, remaining in the game when the noise dies down.
So there’s really no need to envy anyone; someone else’s harvest is their own rhythm, and your own accumulation is your own destination.
Everyone has their own trajectory; there are no shortcuts in life, because if you skip even a little, you won’t make it out.
1000 trillion KRW AI data centers built before 2035. What does it mean? In the future, South Korea will continue purchasing: GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, network switches, power equipment, and cooling systems. So the long-term outlook is positive: AI Infrastructure. The beneficiaries are not just South Korean companies. It also includes global suppliers. For example: NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom, Micron, TSMC, Vertiv, Eaton, Schneider Electric will indirectly benefit as well.
Musk directly brings in Starship rocket engineering talent to work on AI, and aerospace bigwigs cross over to benchmark GPT Opus. An 80-trillion-parameter Grok on August 2 is very likely to be the biggest dark horse in AI for 2026. Or—maybe it’s another joke?!
AI can help you make money, but it may also drain your wallet—AI safety guidelines every crypto trader should know
AI can help you make money, but it may also help drain your wallet—AI safety guidelines every crypto trader should know More and more people have recently begun using AI to trade cryptocurrencies. Some ask AI to analyze candlestick charts, others have it automatically search for DeFi yields, and some even directly authorize AI to carry out automated trading. AI is indeed changing the entire crypto industry, but many people overlook one thing: AI is not just a chatbot anymore—it has started to gain "execution authority". When AI can help you sign transactions, connect wallets, and operate smart contracts, once something goes wrong, the loss may be irreversible.
Both Bitcoin and Ethereum are weak, but Bitcoin is even weaker. Both need a pullback. In the short term, we need to see whether the price bounces back and breaks through resistance when it retests support; otherwise, it may once again break through a major level. This is my personal view, for reference only.
How should you interpret this set of data? The institutions are not “waiting”; they are actively exiting. The share of BTC ETF AUM has fallen from a peak of 8.8% to 6.8%, while ETH has stayed around 7.2%—price support is in a precarious situation. While retail investors are still trying to bottom-pick, institutional capital has voted with its feet. Before a turnaround appears, this signal doesn’t reverse—any rebound is a chance to escape. Stay alert and manage your position size. $BTC $ETH #ETF #加密市场 #比特币
After the monthly review, I choose not to place random orders. I focus on swing trading. But when you’re idle, you’re idle—so I decided to make content. Starting today, I’ll update across all platforms simultaneously.
The plan is simple—and ruthless— In the first month: 1,000 followers on each platform; in three months: 10,000+. I can’t guarantee I’ll make money every day, but I can guarantee that every trade I place, I’ll dare to show.
If I lose, I’ll say I lost. If I profit, I’ll say I profited. My content has only one logic: Sincerity is the ultimate killer move—what you dare to do yourself is worth talking about. Whether I can reach 100,000 followers—I don’t know. But I’m putting this goal out there first.
Watch me, or mock me—either way. We’ll see the truth in three months.
疯狂的Jerrick
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Understanding My Catastrophic Loss: Understand the Common Flaw That Causes 90% of Traders to Lose (Monthly Review)
Preface From June 4 to June 27, over the past month’s cryptocurrency trading cycle, I carried out a thorough self-review. Starting capital was 530U. I added a bit in the middle, but now my account has only under 40U left. My maximum drawdown is close to 90%. Even though I haven’t completely blown up and gone to zero yet, I’m still holding a short position on a low-cap altcoin waiting to be settled. This painful loss is more than enough for me to fully break down my own bad trading habits and face the typical “newbie” mindset that makes traders lose money.
This month, the overall market clearly moved into a one-way downward trend. From the very beginning, I judged the bigger trend correctly and planned to short it throughout. In the end, however, I failed to capture any of the upside from the move, and my funds shrank dramatically. In contrast, among the platform’s traders who truly achieve consistent profits, none are not firmly committed to a single direction and build large positions for swing trades—whereas I was exactly the opposite. My trading turned abnormal the entire time, and I stepped into countless trading “landmines.”
Actually, the logic is quite simple: every financial market has a trading-active period and a closed/cold period.
In the gap after the U.S. stock market closes and when the Korean market hasn’t opened yet, market liquidity is already extremely thin. If tens of millions of dollars are hit in one large order, it—on any platform—will pull out a long wick.
Blaming the wicks solely on exchange depth does overlook a basic financial common sense: during cold periods there are simply fewer buyers to absorb orders, and slippage for large orders is just the norm.
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A bunch of people in the square are saying that Binance’s US stock order book depth isn’t good, and that these Hynix 500wu needle-like spikes are depth problems too.
None of you have any common sense at all. If you buy 500wu during the US stock after-hours session, you’ll still get a few percentage points of slippage. Besides, this is during completely closed market hours.
Sure, the crypto market trades 24/7, but has the Korean market even really been open? And you people are still going on about Binance’s order book depth—it’s genuinely ridiculous. No basic financial knowledge.
A single chart to understand the gray-scale (grayscale) and how the long/short cycles have been going back and forth over the past few years.
Once, a market whale that held 600,000 BTC: after ETF redemption was opened, it steadily reduced its position, cutting its holdings in half, and then in half again.
Prices have been rising and falling, while institutional chips keep fleeing; now the holdings have already fallen to a stage bottom. After the sell pressure is cleared out, will the market see a new inflection point for incoming capital?
Understanding My Catastrophic Loss: Understand the Common Flaw That Causes 90% of Traders to Lose (Monthly Review)
Preface From June 4 to June 27, over the past month’s cryptocurrency trading cycle, I carried out a thorough self-review. Starting capital was 530U. I added a bit in the middle, but now my account has only under 40U left. My maximum drawdown is close to 90%. Even though I haven’t completely blown up and gone to zero yet, I’m still holding a short position on a low-cap altcoin waiting to be settled. This painful loss is more than enough for me to fully break down my own bad trading habits and face the typical “newbie” mindset that makes traders lose money. This month, the overall market clearly moved into a one-way downward trend. From the very beginning, I judged the bigger trend correctly and planned to short it throughout. In the end, however, I failed to capture any of the upside from the move, and my funds shrank dramatically. In contrast, among the platform’s traders who truly achieve consistent profits, none are not firmly committed to a single direction and build large positions for swing trades—whereas I was exactly the opposite. My trading turned abnormal the entire time, and I stepped into countless trading “landmines.”
The most powerless thing to do when trading: your market prediction is accurate, but your account funding is rapidly shrinking!
In three days, my account dropped from 101U to 40U, and I still have one open position in hand—its profit or loss is unknown.
Lately, the market trend has been so clear and one-directional. I should have been eating big, yet the more I trade, the worse my losses get.
After repeatedly studying the trading logic of the big names in the circle, I finally realized the core problem:
Seeing it right doesn’t mean you’re doing it well; making the right judgment doesn’t mean you can hold onto your profits.
Too many people, just like me, end up failing because of execution.
This weekend, I’ll fully review and break down all my opening records from the past 30 days, analyze the reasons for each loss one by one, and customize a trading method that fits me. Follow me—let’s learn and grow together.
A lot of times, inside, I’ve got a hundred voices yelling: "Short it! Short it! Get on that short!" but when it comes to actually placing the order, my hand mysteriously clicks on long instead. Then I watch the market tank, regretting my choice while trying to convince myself: "Just hold on, maybe it’ll bounce back." In the end, I not only missed the chance to profit, but also blew the opportunity to short. Is anyone else in the same boat as me? $BTC
There aren't many takeaways from this recap, but the lessons learned are crucial.
Last night, when the US stock market opened, I saw the Spacex chart showing strong upward momentum. I impulsively chased the long position, but the market quickly reversed, triggering my stop loss and resulting in a loss.
No chasing highs or lows: Whether going long or short, always wait for a price pullback before entering. Blindly chasing trades makes it tough to set reasonable stop losses, which can lead to significant losses; Mandatory cooldown rule before entering a trade: I've previously highlighted an important discipline — wait calmly for 5 minutes before placing an order. This time, I failed to follow that rule, and my impulsive action led to losses; I've tripped over the chasing trade pitfalls multiple times, and once again, I realized my self-control is lacking.
By reiterating and reinforcing psychological cues, I need to keep the trading discipline close to heart and restrain my impulsive order placements.
SPCXUSDT long -4.12U IRENUSDT short -7.30U BTCUSDT short +16.02U Overall net profit: 16.02-11.42=4.60USDT 😀😀😀 This video is solely for personal review and does not constitute any investment advice #SpaceX股价下跌 #SpaceX蒸发$6000亿 #交易复盘