#数字资产生态回暖 Seven years of crypto life have made me see a truth: this market has never taken out people with bad brains.

Two years ago, a friend asked me about the trend of Ethereum. I suggested she could try to position herself. When the increase reached 50%, she was asking every day whether she should sell. I casually said, "You might consider reducing your position," and she immediately sold all.

Guess what? ETH doubled again shortly after. Since then, she rarely spoke up in the group chat.

In fact, most people don’t really need advice; they just want someone to give them an easy way out.

At the end of the year, a trading buddy came to me for a confession. He had only 3500 USDT left in his account, but he had a mountain of liquidation records. He said he would give up completely if he lost again.

I listed three bottom-line rules for him:
- Keep each position within one-fifth of total funds
- Don’t hesitate to cut losses; if it needs to be sold, sell
- Dedicate time to review after closing

He insisted on following them. In less than two months, his account jumped from 3500 to 70,000. During that time, we almost daily monitored the charts, studied on-chain data, eyes sore from looking, but the account balance kept rising.

When the money grows, people’s mentality tends to change.

He suddenly wanted to go live and trade with fans, then immediately used 20x leverage. A single downtrend line crushed the account, shrinking it by 40% on the spot.

At 3 a.m., he cried and asked me, "Am I doing this again?"

I only said one thing: "In trading, there are no ifs, only results."

I told him to immediately close his positions and cool off for two days. Just two hours later, he sent a screenshot of his full position.

Before deleting his previous messages, I only left him one sentence:
"Capital can be rebuilt with skills, but once discipline collapses, you have nothing left. What you truly lose is not a certain market condition, but every hollow excuse you make for yourself."

The harshest truth of this market is this: most traders are not actually making trading decisions; they are only amplifying their inner weaknesses with funds.

The ones who survive from this are often not the smartest, but those who can stick to the rules.

If you keep stumbling in the same place, maybe you should stop and ask yourself—are you stuck because of the market, or because of your own character?