The Stable Survival Rules of a Female Analyst
1. Starting Point: $420 in a Café and $130,000 in Savings
In Dubai during Ramadan 2016, the hot wind wrapped in sand slapped against the apartment window. I stared at the buy interface for Huobi on my notebook screen, entering $420—that was my mother's reserve fund for rheumatism and a 'testing cost' for the dream of a clothing store. As I clicked confirm, my mother was murmuring about the rainy days in Chongqing in the video, and I swallowed back the words 'let's test the waters with the money.'
Six months later, $130,000 turned into $1.7 million. I searched overnight for shop information in Jiefangbei, listing my inventory like the glass door of the clothing store was within reach. But a mobile notification during the bear market in 2018 shrank my account balance to $280,000. Coffee spilled on the report, the blurred ink looked much like my trembling heart—I cried into my pillow that night, soaking one side, hating myself for 'gambling' away my mother's medicine money.
2. Taking detours: from 'hearing news' to 'looking on-chain'
Only after stepping into the pitfalls do I understand that what makes the crypto market most exhausting is not the heat wave, but the blindness. I once followed the trend of altcoin ICOs without even reading the white paper, losing 220,000 in seven days; I also once blindly trusted a 'big influencer's' recommendation until my colleague Sister Li lost her daughter's tuition due to the FTX crash, and only then did I wake up completely.
Change starts with three things:
Data replaces rumors: In 2022, I insisted on self-checking on-chain reserves and discovered abnormal liquidity of FTX's USDT, withdrawing $100,000 in advance. Yet, Sister Li's 'faith' ultimately succumbed to transparent data.
Rules beat impulses: I allocate my positions into four tiers—45% for BTC/ETH to stabilize, 20% betting on SOL (valuing its female creator ecosystem), 20% for cross-border arbitrage (utilizing the price difference between Dubai and Chongqing), and 15% as a reserve. When SOL crashed in 2021, the reserve was used to buy back, securing profits during the rebound.
Cognitive boundaries are clear: I no longer engage with projects I don't understand, just like a clothing store only stocks styles I can coordinate.
3. Stand firm: the safety rope is more important than courage
There will always be people saying 'women are cautious in the crypto space', but I gradually understand that what we want is not the thrill of 'winning once', but the resilience to not lose our bottom line in chaos and to remember our original intention when we profit.
Now, my parents live in an elevator apartment next to a hospital in Chongqing, and my clothing store is located at Guanyinqiao, where I have hired two young women to manage it. The cryptocurrency market still fluctuates, but I no longer stay up all night watching the market because:
Position management is confidence: dividing positions into four tiers is like the seasonal inventory of a clothing store, ensuring I don’t miss out on hot items while also not straining cash flow.
On-chain data is a ruler: Project teams can craft stories, but on-chain transactions and reserve addresses do not lie.
The reserve is the fallback: Set aside a sum for 'mother’s medical expenses'; never go all-in at any time to avoid the collapse night of 2018.
4. Plain spoken truth: Wealth is stability, not just numbers.
The crypto world lacks myths, but it lacks ordinary people who can hold on to the 'safety rope'. For me, wealth is not about a surge in account balance, but when using crypto gains to buy a house for my parents, and my mother says, 'The elevator is convenient; my legs don’t hurt on rainy days'; it’s knowing that the stability of the clothing store's lights comes from that hesitant test in the café years ago.
The market is always there, but remember why you started with every step—that is what we, this group of 'cautious' women, have truly gained.
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