I've been trading contracts for so long—making small profits and taking big losses—and when I add it all up, I'm still in the red. What's strange is that even after the market beats me up, leaving me bruised, I still can't bring myself to get off the table. This obsession is toxic. Imagine having a 10,000 U position—if it rises by 1%, that's 100 U, basically a normal person's day's wages. If it's 20,000 U, and you catch a 5% swing, that's 1,000 U, easily wiping out the grueling struggle of a whole month as a corporate slave. This isn't trading at all—it's compressing months of blood, sweat, and hardship into a single big bullish candle. One light tap with your fingertips, and adrenaline and dopamine explode instantly. That illusion of “making money is so easy” can make you boil with excitement and fall completely under its spell. Later, I suffered massive losses, and the lesson was brutally clear. Desperate to win it back, I started reading obsessively and studying all kinds of indicators—from MACD to naked candlestick patterns. The deeper I learned, the more I felt like I'd “figured it out” with my own intelligence. But the market's favorite thing is slapping you in the face. You think you've analyzed the move down to the last detail, and then the market maker casually throws in some utterly senseless spike and instantly sends you back to zero. In that moment, I finally understood: indicators can help you see probabilities, but they can't save you from the greed and the luck-chasing inside human nature. I made it through a whole and a half cycle—going from fearless ignorance at the start, to blind arrogance in the middle, and now to the humility and calm that come with experience. I've finally slowed down. These days my mindset is much steadier. I'm no longer chasing the fantasy of “one trade to be free,” and I'm no longer throwing everything into a do-or-die bet. Contracts are never a shortcut for the poor to turn their lives around. They're a slaughterhouse specifically designed to amplify human flaws. This cycle, I'm still on the field. I don't aim to get rich overnight—I just want to live long and move steadily. I hope this time, I can give myself and those crazy years an honorable ending. The market is always cruel. Never overestimate your willpower, and never underestimate the power of black swans. To revere the market, protect your capital—that's the only ace we have to survive in ruthless candlestick charts. $UNI
The reason is $TSLA . It's because on Binance, the candlestick chart has moved to the lower band of the Bollinger Bands, so I thought it should bounce back. But on TradingView, it's still a bit short of reaching the lower band. The data is a little inconsistent.
Right now, I've set a stop-loss at 346.1, so I guess it's probably over. But I still hold on to a sliver of hope. If today's daily candle can close with a wick, then maybe I can still hold on a bit tomorrow.
As for Tesla, the last earnings report was worse than expected, and it just feels quite weak.
Its support level is not very clear; the 4H chart keeps punching through it.
Anyway, since the stop-loss is set, just lie back and wait. Fortune is in the hands of heaven! $
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This deal feels a bit risky $TSLA Is there anyone who’s going long?
Amazing, and here we go again! At 9 p.m. it suddenly dumped with increased volume. I was like, is the U.S. stock market open? Wasn’t it 21:30? Could daylight saving time have kicked in? I checked—daylight saving time is 22:30.
But hey, it’s fine as long as we profit. Feels like we can try for 158 again. Go, little rocket, take off! $SPCX
Even though this amount of money would probably disappear in a 4th/5th-tier city for a house, we still have to take it one step at a time—the goal needs to be realistic.
Since I entered the market, I feel like I’ve lost the equivalent of 50-plus (times). The good news is I bought a small car for getting around, and it also lets me subsidize my family, so I’m not completely useless 🥺.
I算了下: my current principal is 38695 U ≈ 257,321.75 CNY. Let’s just treat it as 250k RMB for now; it’s still 4x away from the goal. I don’t have more than 20k RMB in debt, so I won’t count that for the moment. For the next few months, I plan to use my salary for DCA into spot and won’t withdraw. I’ll live off the CMB (China Merchants Bank) Lightning Loan for now. Because it feels like a bull market is coming, I think I should be a bit bolder.
I plan to keep 5000 U to mess around with perps/contracts. Recently I wrote a market-making bot for #StandX Market Maker, and I plan to add another 5000 U to play with it (feels like the odds are pretty good).
My principal is really tight—I don’t have much room left…