易琳Ten

Trading to Attain Insight · The Human Nature Gate

The truly final stage of trading is not a technical one, but a human-nature one.

When the heart does not die, the Way will not be born.

What is meant by “the heart dying” is not despair, nor losing confidence,
but letting go of obsession—letting go of subjective guesses about price action—and
truly beginning to embrace what is objective.

What is meant by “the Way being born” is not learning some peerless secret manual,
but, after going through enough market trials and washings,
finally transforming into someone who does not guess, does not gamble, and does not contend—
only follows the rules.

👉 The Five Dead Hearts
Greed, fear, luck-seeking, revenge, and obsession.

👉 The Five Living Ways
The Way of following the trend, the Way of waiting, the Way of selection and trade-offs,
the Way of conservation, and the Way of knowing oneself.

The highest level of trading is not predicting every rise and fall,
but accepting the market’s uncertainty.

No self in the mind; the chart in the eyes.
Rules in your hands; a sense of proportion in your heart.

When you no longer try to prove you are right,
but instead care only whether you can execute correctly—
maybe that moment is when you truly begin to understand what “trading” really is.

When should you use leverage?

It’s not always the right time to increase leverage.

The conditions that typically make it worthwhile to take on more risk are:

① A major opportunity emerges
② Market volatility is low enough
③ The market structure is clear enough
④ Confirmation from the right side has already arrived

In a market like this, which is resting and consolidating after a rally, the most important thing isn’t to keep increasing leverage. Instead:

Manage your leverage and position size, and patiently wait for the next opportunity.

Go on the offensive when an opportunity comes; stay defensive when it doesn’t.

Trading isn’t about who takes the most risks,
but who has enough ammunition when an opportunity arises.

Manage risk to stay in the game longer;
stay in the game long enough, and you can catch the truly big moves.

There is only one main quest in life:
Find yourself and become who you are meant to be.

Don't cater to others or live up to their expectations.
Find what you truly love, follow your own path,
and little by little become the person you want to be.

In this life, you're not here to become someone else,
but to become the best version of yourself.

🤖 Binance Intelligence: An “AI Nanny” for Retail Traders

Folks, Binance Intelligence is basically Binance giving everyday retail traders an “AI nanny” 😂

Lots of people have been trading crypto for years and still place orders based on gut feeling:
Buy when it goes up, sell when it goes down. Ask them what their strategy is—
“Buy low, sell high.”
So when is it low? When is it high? No idea 😂

Now AI can bring together loads of market information, data, and analysis, then tailor the content to your experience level: beginners get the simplified version, while seasoned traders get the more technical one.

Even more interestingly, He Yi mentioned that in the future, AI Pro might be able to tell whether you’re a Holder or a Trader, whether you prefer dollar-cost averaging or grid trading, and then match you with structured strategies based on your habits.

In a nutshell:
You used to research strategies yourself; in the future, AI might help you organize them.

But I think it’s important to remember:

AI is a tool, not gospel.

Its greatest value may not be making you smarter, but helping you filter information and cut through the noise so you make fewer dumb mistakes.

As for whether it’ll eventually be able to “create a strategy from one sentence and execute it right away,” we’ll have to wait and see.

After all, no matter how good the tool is, if you can’t keep your hands off the buttons, that’s still on you 😂

What do you think of this AI tool? Would you be willing to use it as a trading assistant?

@CZ A person with a net worth of tens of billions still lives frugally and thinks rationally.
So, everyone, always respect money and exercise restraint.
Just because you earn a lot doesn't mean you can spend it recklessly.
True financial freedom means staying clear-headed even after becoming wealthy—you can afford to spend, but know when to hold back.
Respect your wealth, cherish the present, and spend wisely.

It’s well worth reading about how people under immense pressure work through their struggles and gradually regain their footing.

👉Masters change their mindset to adapt to the people and circumstances around them.

👉Gradually, the people and circumstances around you will change in response to your own transformation.

👉A single thought is everything. Change your thoughts, and everything will change. One thought can lead to heaven; one thought can lead to hell.

Long ago, there was an elderly woman
who had a little spare cash, so she bought a few gold bars in advance and tucked them away.

Others thought she didn’t need to,
even laughing, “Why buy when it’s so expensive now? You’ll have plenty of chances later.”

But her thinking was simple:
There would be more and more money, but truly scarce things wouldn’t magically multiply.

A lot of things look expensive when viewed from the present,
but viewed within a trend, they may just be in the early stages of price discovery.

The same logic applies to Bitcoin.

The cap of 21 million coins won’t change,
while fiat currency supplies face persistent long-term pressure to expand.

What really matters isn’t guessing the next candlestick,
but understanding the long-term dynamics of supply and demand.

The painful truth is—
if this trend continues, we may genuinely never see BTC below $100,000 again in the next bear market.

So don’t always try to buy at the very bottom.
Seeing the trend clearly matters more than guessing the price.

Many people are focusing on that major pullback in early 2023,
trying to fit today’s market action to historical price movements.

But here’s what I want to say:

History may rhyme, but it doesn’t simply repeat itself.

I’m more inclined to think that we’re still in Phase D.
But before the target level is reached, the market may not necessarily repeat the deep pullback we saw back then.

So, we can learn from history, but we shouldn’t be constrained by it.

Past price movements can help us understand the market’s rhythm,
but they can’t serve as a script for predicting the future.

Price movements may look similar, but the timing may differ;
patterns may repeat, but the path will never be exactly the same.

What really matters in trading isn’t finding a carbon copy of history,
but continually adjusting our judgment based on current prices, market structure, and capital flows.

Buying the bottom takes courage; selling the top takes reason.

How much you earn is up to the market; how much you lose is up to you.

To grow the principal, it’s never luck that you rely on—it’s discipline

If you don’t have much capital, really don’t keep chasing price action wildly or making random trades.

The crypto market has never been a place where you can survive long-term on luck alone.

The smaller the principal, the less you can afford to be impatient.
The more you want to turn things around, the more you need restraint.

Because the biggest advantage of small funds isn’t being bold enough to gamble—it’s that you can control risk and still have a chance to start over.

Remember these 3 rules:

① Allocate your funds—never go all-in

Divide your capital into three parts.

One portion for short-term trades: take profits and lock them in as they come, don’t get greedy at the very end;
One portion to wait for the trend: if the market hasn’t played out yet, be patient and wait;
The last portion as reserves: unless you truly need it, don’t move it lightly.

Always leave yourself a way out.

② Only make money from what you can understand

If there’s no opportunity, stay in cash.
If there’s no signal, wait.

Not every K-line is worth getting involved in,
and you don’t have to make money every day.

If you don’t understand the market, it’s better to miss it;
Only when you clearly understand the opportunity should you trade seriously.

Trading isn’t about who makes more moves—it’s about who makes fewer mistakes.

③ Take-profit and stop-loss must be followed

If you’re wrong, admit it.
If you’re in profit, reduce your position according to your plan.
If you’re at a loss, don’t mindlessly add to your position just to average down.

The truly dangerous part is never just one small loss.

It’s when you’re clearly wrong, but because you can’t accept it, you force a small loss into a big one.

Nobody can guarantee every trade will be profitable.

But you can do this:

Keep small losses controllable, hold onto profits, and never touch big losses.

Having a small principal isn’t the scary part.
The scariest thing is rushing to turn things around.

When you’re impatient, you chase pumps;
When you have a loss, you add more;
When you get a profit, you start getting greedy again;
In the end, your trading gets completely taken over by emotions.

The real growth path for a small principal has never been:

All-in → big surge → overnight riches.

It should be:

First, survive → control drawdowns → execute steadily → accumulate slowly → let compounding happen.

So don’t always think about how much you can make on the next trade.

First ask yourself clearly:

If this trade goes wrong, what’s the most I can lose?

When you trade all the way to the end, it’s not a contest of who’s most willing to gamble.
It’s about who can, through one round of volatility after another, protect your principal, protect your discipline, and protect your own pace.

Don’t be greedy, don’t panic, don’t gamble.

The first step to turning around with a small principal has never been making money—it’s learning how not to lose the opportunity to live and trade.

When you have something, you should cherish it well.
Psychologists such as Robert Emmons and others have found that actively focusing on things in life that you have to be grateful for can help boost positive emotions and overall happiness.
The most common mistake in life is to take what you have for granted.
If your parents are still alive, spend more time with them; if your partner is still there, cherish them well; if your body is healthy, don’t recklessly overdraw it.
Because everything you possess isn’t permanent, and every reunion has its limit.
True cherishing isn’t regretting it only after you’ve lost it; it’s knowing, while you still have it, that it’s worth valuing.
Cherish the people in front of you, cherish what’s happening right now, and cherish everything you have in this moment.

Life is like tea,
with both bitterness and sweetness in balance.

Life is like tea; it requires a calm heart and patient waiting.
When it sinks, accept it with composure—learn to build strength.
When it rises, stay unruffled—learn to let things settle.
Hold your temper steady, and only then can you become truly great.

What do you know is the most fascinating part of trading?
In business, with different ways of thinking, you need time to communicate and put in all your effort to persuade others.
In trading, is it different in how you think?
No arguing, no persuading, no explanations.
You have your judgment, and I have my logic.
You are bullish, and I am bearish.
The market is the arena, and price is the referee.
No need to persuade anyone, and no need to prove anything to anyone.
If the direction is right, take the profit that belongs to you.
If the direction is wrong, accept the market’s lesson.
Trading is a quiet contest.

Trade
Be content and always happy,
steady compounding returns,
slow and steady progress.