This thing called contracts can triple your money in a week, or wipe you out in a day.

I bet when you first entered the space, you wondered—why can others seize opportunities while I’m always teetering on the edge of liquidation?

To be honest, I started with just 3,000 yuan. Back then, I’d go all in on impulse, not even looking at support or resistance levels—just brute-forcing it. After getting liquidated once, I’d tell myself, “I’ll make it back next round.” And the result? The deeper I got, the more I lost.

At the time, I thought I just had bad luck. Later, I realized it had nothing to do with luck—I simply wasn’t qualified to hold that money. Surviving by sheer chance was already a miracle.

The turning point came the day I stopped to review my trades. I pulled up every record and went through them one by one. Only then did I realize: liquidation is never an accident, it’s the inevitable result. Trading with no logic and no discipline—how can you talk about risk control? I was just fooling myself.

Real contract trading isn’t about gambling on price movements, but about entering and exiting with rhythm and a system. The scariest thing isn’t market volatility, it’s your mindset falling apart first.

Later, I started seriously studying technical indicators, like Bollinger Bands. Not just drawing a few lines, but truly understanding the details—squeezing, expanding, false breakouts, retest confirmations. The first time I used them to catch a 30x return, I finally understood—so that’s how it works.

But methods are just tools. If your mindset is unstable and your position sizing is a mess, no matter how great the method is, it can’t save you.

So ask yourself: Are the trades you’re making based on logical deduction, or driven by emotion? Are you following a system, or gambling on luck? If you don’t even set a stop loss, do you actually want to make money, or just get a thrill?

A lot of people say, “I don’t believe in fate,” but in reality, they hand their fate to the market every day. I make far fewer trades now, but each one is clear, clean, and has well-defined risk. That’s the key to surviving and compounding.

Don’t talk to me about getting rich overnight. The crypto space has never been short on get-rich-quick stories—what’s lacking are people who can survive long-term and get stronger, bit by bit.