Watching the market is not as good as watching your mindset; chasing highs is not as good as waiting for opportunities.
Friends often jokingly block me and ask: 'Sister, you’ve been in the crypto circle for eight years, and you’ve saved up nearly a million dollars in your account, do you have some insider information?'
I always shake my head and smile. If there really were a foolproof secret to making money, I would have taken my money and traveled the world by now, why would I still be here every day watching and reviewing the market?
Looking back at these eight years, the reason I can be where I am today is simply understanding three words: 'slow, steady, not greedy'.
The former madness: I was once a 'retail investor'.
When I first entered the circle, like many newcomers now, I chased the trends every day. When the DeFi boom happened in 2020, I hadn't even finished reading the project white paper and rushed in following the 'big shots' in the community, even adding 5x leverage, thinking I would soon become rich.
So what happened? In less than half a month, the locked position of that project plummeted, and my account directly evaporated 60% of the principal. I remember that night, I stared at the candlestick chart until dawn, tears uncontrollably streaming down; that heart-wrenching feeling is still vivid in my memory.
It was that painful lesson that woke me up: in the world of cryptocurrency, it's never about who 'earns quickly', but who 'survives the longest'.
My three iron rules: Don't touch what you don't understand, don't be greedy, don't hold on.
Since then, I have set three iron rules for myself:
I won't get involved with projects whose underlying logic I cannot understand, no matter how popular they are. I don’t care how much it rises in a day; as long as I cannot understand its economic model and application scenarios, I will resolutely not participate.
Always keep the position at 60%, leaving 40% as a backup. The market always has opportunities; there's no need to fire all your bullets at once.
Only waiting for the dual signals of 'data + sentiment', never entering the market based on feelings. One must look at whether on-chain data supports it and observe whether market sentiment is in place.
These rules seem simple, but maintaining rationality in a frenzied market really requires great restraint.
Practical case: Patiently waiting in a bear market
During the darkest times of the 2022 bear market, almost everyone was shouting 'buy the dip', but I remained still. I spent half a month every day watching the on-chain data of SOL, observing hard metrics like developer activity and institutional wallet trends.
Only when I noticed the developer activity began to rise, and institutional wallets started to increase their holdings, did I enter the market with a small position for testing. That year, I only traded four times in total, spending no more than forty minutes a day watching the market, and the rest of the time I drank tea, exercised, and spent time with family.
Guess what? By the end of the year, my account had netted an additional 250,000 USD.
Before the BTC halving market in 2024, I still used the old method: waiting for the price to pull back to key support levels while the trading volume clearly increased, then adding positions in batches. At that time, while others were chasing inscriptions and trading new coins, I stuck with a few mainstream coins, and after half a year, my account doubled, steadily surpassing the 600,000 USD mark.
A heartfelt message to newcomers: Don’t lose yourself in the fluctuations.
Now, newcomers often ask me how to catch 'bull coins', and I always tell them: don't spend all day staring at the market for shortcuts; the real gains are 'waiting' to be made, not 'chasing' after.
In the crypto world, the most easily overlooked costs are 'opportunity cost' and 'emotional cost'. When you chase every hot trend, what you pay is not just transaction fees, but also mental exhaustion. And these costs are often more precious than the money you lose.
I have seen too many people rise and fall in this round of bull and bear; those who ultimately survive and do well are those who have their own trading systems and do not follow the crowd.
Are you still following every trend now? Why not try to slow down—earning a little less is fine, but being able to earn for a long time is the real skill.
Slow down, be steady, don’t be greedy—this may be the most valuable insight I have gained in eight years in the crypto world.
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