"Staring at the stock market again? Are you crazy, trying to get rich overnight?" Last week, my mom saw me taking notes in the early hours of the morning and immediately started scolding me. I didn't argue, but silently showed her screenshots of the baby formula bill and the elderly person's medical checkup fee on my phone. Nobody is born loving to stare at stock charts until their eyes hurt; we just want to have a sense of security that makes our families feel at ease.
First, let me clarify: I'm not a gambler; I'm an analyst who's worked in the crypto market for six years. I've seen people leverage their investments, get wiped out, and cry while deleting their software, and I've also seen ordinary people steadily improve their lives through dollar-cost averaging. Rather than calling it "speculation," I prefer to say "trading knowledge for returns." After all, these days, trying to make money legitimately is incredibly difficult and makes you question the meaning of life.
A while ago, my childhood friend asked me to partner with him to open a restaurant company, but I immediately poured cold water on his idea. It wasn't that I was being pessimistic; reality is harsh: starting a company these days is like walking through a minefield. Upstream raw material prices are constantly rising, downstream customers are tightening their belts, and with each resurgence of the pandemic, stores can close at any time, potentially turning "the boss into the employee, and the employee into the creditor." He wasn't giving up, suggesting we open a small noodle shop instead. After searching the commercial district for half a month, he found either prime locations with transfer fees that could cover a down payment on a house, or deserted shops in alleys that barely saw ten customers in three days. In the end, he could only joke that "even selling a bowl of noodles depends on being born into the right family for the location."
Some people say that street vending is flexible. My neighbor tried it, pushing a food cart around outside office buildings. In the summer, she got sunburned and her skin peeled off; in the winter, her hands were frozen stiff like carrots. Half of her earnings went to fines for "guerrilla warfare," and at the end of the month, she calculated that she would have been better off working as a cashier at a supermarket. It's not that we're afraid of hardship; it's just that these traditional paths are no longer a guarantee of success through hard work.
So where are the opportunities for ordinary people to make money? This is the key takeaway I want to share today: don't focus on already overcrowded sectors, learn to capitalize on the opportunities presented by "new tools." The crypto market isn't a casino; it's essentially a new way to allocate assets, much like stocks 20 years ago and funds 10 years ago. However, many people make mistakes right from the start, primarily due to three errors:
First, don't mistake "hearsay" for analysis. Yesterday, someone asked me, "A certain influential figure says a certain coin is going to rise, should I buy it?" I replied directly, "You might as well roll the dice." True judgment relies on data: look at the project's technological implementation, community activity, and capital inflow trends. This publicly available data is more reliable than any "insider information."
Second, don't mistake "all in" for courage. The worst case I've seen is someone investing their entire down payment on a house, only to have it all collapse when the market fluctuated. Remember my ironclad rule: use "spare money" to enter the market, meaning that even if you lose it all, it won't affect your normal life—that's the safety line. My own portfolio is always divided into three parts: a base of stable mainstream assets, a portion of medium-risk innovative projects, and a small portion for trying new opportunities. I never risk money.
Third, don't treat "short-term fluctuations" as wins or losses. Some people stare at the market for half an hour, laughing when it goes up and panicking when it goes down. This isn't investing; it's "inviting suffering." High volatility in the crypto market is normal. You need to look at the long-term logic: Can this technology truly solve the problem? Is this industry moving forward? If the answer is yes, then short-term fluctuations are irrelevant. One mainstream asset I held in 2019 dropped 60% without me touching it, and now my returns have tripled—all thanks to my patience.
This isn't to encourage everyone to jump in, but rather to tell you that the core of making money is "going with the flow." If traditional methods are difficult, don't stubbornly resist; when new opportunities arise, learn about them first, instead of dismissing them outright. When I switched from the internet industry to encryption analysis, I also started from scratch, learning the technology and analyzing data, and it took me more than half a year to figure things out.
Finally, I want to say to everyone: We work hard to earn money not to show off, but so that when our parents are sick, we can choose the best hospital without hesitation; so that when our children want to enroll in extracurricular classes, we don't have to worry about prices; and so that we ourselves don't have to bow down to life's hardships. This sense of security is more important than anything else.
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