What he used to look forward to most in a day wasn’t getting off work—it was the phone suddenly buzzing at around 2:00 a.m.
That trading buddy, when he first started with contracts, only put in 1,500 U to test the waters. As it turned out, his luck was incredibly good—he reached 40,000 U in half a month. After that, he began to feel that his old life was too slow. The money he earned from working one month might not even be enough to cover the daily fluctuations in his account. He used to think that a few hundred was important; later, once he saw that one bullish surge on the K-line could lift things by several thousand, his standards gradually changed.
The real trouble started after his first huge win—because he began to believe that he really understood it. If the market pulled back, he wouldn’t leave; if his position was losing, he’d add to it. Once he had averaged down and it kept dropping, he’d start thinking about the next trade to make it all back. In the end, that 40,000 U dwindled down to just a few hundred. Logically, that should’ve been the point where he stopped. But he didn’t.
He ate while watching the charts, checked them before sleeping, and when he woke up in the middle of the night, the first thing he did was touch his phone. With only a few hundred left, he still opened the contract trading page and stared at those numbers jumping up and down.
Later, I realized the thing he couldn’t quit wasn’t the trading itself—it was the feeling that you might get a massive win at any moment. Because in normal work, it takes a month to see results; with contracts, they can make your account jump by a chunk in just a few minutes. After you’ve tasted that kind of speed, going back to slowly accumulating gains feels boring. But the market won’t always keep feeding you sweet rewards. When you start thinking that this trade can recover the losses from before, the trade itself has already changed. You’re not just looking at the market anymore—you’re driven by unwillingness. So what’s truly hard is this: after your account is down, can you still let it go. @币神z $FTT
That trading buddy, when he first started with contracts, only put in 1,500 U to test the waters. As it turned out, his luck was incredibly good—he reached 40,000 U in half a month. After that, he began to feel that his old life was too slow. The money he earned from working one month might not even be enough to cover the daily fluctuations in his account. He used to think that a few hundred was important; later, once he saw that one bullish surge on the K-line could lift things by several thousand, his standards gradually changed.
The real trouble started after his first huge win—because he began to believe that he really understood it. If the market pulled back, he wouldn’t leave; if his position was losing, he’d add to it. Once he had averaged down and it kept dropping, he’d start thinking about the next trade to make it all back. In the end, that 40,000 U dwindled down to just a few hundred. Logically, that should’ve been the point where he stopped. But he didn’t.
He ate while watching the charts, checked them before sleeping, and when he woke up in the middle of the night, the first thing he did was touch his phone. With only a few hundred left, he still opened the contract trading page and stared at those numbers jumping up and down.
Later, I realized the thing he couldn’t quit wasn’t the trading itself—it was the feeling that you might get a massive win at any moment. Because in normal work, it takes a month to see results; with contracts, they can make your account jump by a chunk in just a few minutes. After you’ve tasted that kind of speed, going back to slowly accumulating gains feels boring. But the market won’t always keep feeding you sweet rewards. When you start thinking that this trade can recover the losses from before, the trade itself has already changed. You’re not just looking at the market anymore—you’re driven by unwillingness. So what’s truly hard is this: after your account is down, can you still let it go. @币神z $FTT
