I have been using the trading software signature for 5 years: “What is lost is not the increase, but the human flaws that cannot be compensated for.” The phone wallpaper is even more heart-wrenching — a blurry screenshot of my holdings, under the buying record of ADA at $0.08, I handwritten four large characters: “Don’t panic again.”
Behind this wallpaper are two lessons that made me regret my decisions:
The first time was with ADA. When it was $0.2 and I saw a slight market correction, I clung to the obsession of “locking in profits” and cleared my position instantly. As a result, half a month later, it surged all the way to $4, a 20-fold increase felt like a thorn, still piercing my heart to this day. Later, during my review, I realized that it was just a normal trend correction at that time, but I was led by the emotion of “fear of loss.”
Before I could catch my breath, ETH taught me another lesson. After opening a position at $2000, a large bearish candle dropped (later I learned it was institutional liquidation), and I panicked and liquidated overnight. The next day, it shot straight up to $4500. At the moment I stared at the empty position page, I finally understood: the most brutal harvesting in a bull market is never the crash but targeting retail investors whose emotions are out of control - the more panicked you are, the easier it is to exit before dawn.
After suffering two major losses, I reflected deeply and transformed my painful lessons into three sets of 'anti-human' strategies, binding automatic tools to enforce them strictly. Last year, I managed to withstand three major fluctuations steadily, and my account curve changed from the 'up-and-down ECG' to a steadily rising 'slope line.' Ordinary people can also avoid emotional traps by following these three methods.
2. Guaranteed Three Moves: Turn patience into strategy, let discipline guard profits.
1. Don’t act until the signal arrives: Use the 120-day moving average to filter out 90% of emotional noise.
What torments people most in a bull market is the anxiety of 'fear of missing out' - seeing others' coins rising while their own holdings remain still, they can’t help but chase up and down. I later established an iron rule: if the price hasn’t firmly stood above the 120-day moving average, treat the market as chaotic.
I changed the alert sound of the trading software to 'Signal Not Reached.' Every time I feel impulsive about opening a position, hearing these four words instantly calms me down. This approach seems 'slow,' but in reality, it is about filtering out genuine trend movements: the 120-day moving average is known as the 'Bull-Bear Boundary,' which can filter out most short-term noise and allows you to participate only in high-certainty trends.
Since I used this trick, I transformed from 'fear of missing out' to 'fear of buying wrong,' and my opening position win rate directly improved by 30%. Remember: Bull markets don't lack opportunities, what they lack is the patience to resist impulse. Waiting for the signal to act is ten times more stable than blindly following the trend.
2. Position as Armor: Six-part Capital Method, don't panic with bullets in hand.
The core reason retail investors are shaken out is 'fully leveraged' - once the market pulls back, they fall into the predicament of 'either cutting losses or being trapped.' My current position strategy is a 'moat against emotions':
Divide available funds into six parts, only invest 20% in building positions (testing position); if the asset pulls back 15%, replenish 10%; if it drops another 10%, replenish the second 10%; if it rebounds 25%, withdraw 10% of profits; always keep 10% in reserve, regardless of how good the market is, do not move it.
The benefit of this operation is: no matter how the market fluctuates, you always have 'bullets' in hand, so you won’t panic due to a full position retreat, nor miss a rebound due to an empty position. Last year, when an asset pulled back 20%, I replenished my position according to plan, and less than a week later, it rebounded 30%. I not only didn’t lose but also made a profit. This is the confidence of position management.
3. Discipline relies on the system: Automatic tools help you 'combat human nature.'
The biggest enemy in trading is your own emotions - during midnight market fluctuations, you can’t hold on and want to liquidate; when profits exceed expectations, you become greedy and don’t want to take profits. The key to solving this problem is to hand over discipline to the system.
Before I open a position now, I always clearly outline three points: entry point, defense point (stop-loss level), target point (take-profit level), then input into an automatic tool, and it will automatically close or take profit at the set points. Last time when the market suddenly surged at midnight, the system alerted me to take profits while I was doing yoga, completely unaffected by market fluctuations.
Remember: In a bull market, there’s no need to stare at K-lines every day, what you should focus on is your own emotions. Hand over decision-making to rules and execution to tools, so you can transform from 'being led by the market' to 'leading the market.'
3. Lastly, I want to say: Those who make big money in a bull market are all 'anti-human' people.
In the crypto market, after eight years of ups and downs, I have seen too many people make money in a bull market only to lose it back - it’s not that they don’t understand technology, but they couldn’t control their emotions. When the market fluctuates, the more panicked you are, the easier it is to make wrong decisions; the steadier you are, the more you can wait for profits to be realized.
In fact, the logic of making money in a bull market is very simple: turn patience into executable strategies, let positions build a solid safety line, and rely on discipline to hold onto earned profits. When the market fluctuates, instead of anxiously staring at the market until sleeplessness, it’s better to turn off your phone and sleep. When you wake up, the profits are already in your account, and you are still steadily in the game.
Next, I will continuously share practical details on trend judgment and position management, such as how to accurately set stop-loss and take-profit points, and position adjustment techniques under different market conditions. Follow me, and when the next market starts, let’s be among the 'few who earn steadily,' no longer being the leeks harvested by emotions!
