I am 30 years old this year. Looking back, this journey is simply a dream. If I were to go through it again, I might not have such a good result today. On this road, persistence, hard work, and luck are all indispensable. I started to trade foreign exchange when I was in college. At that time, I thought it was really awesome. I could make money by just moving my fingers. It was a waste of life to do knitting and hand out flyers. I could easily make $200 a day by clicking the mouse, but I could only make 50 yuan a day by handing out flyers. At that time, I thought I had found the door to get rich quickly, but I didn’t know that it was the door to hell! Maybe it’s because I just started trading. There is often a period of novice luck at the beginning, and when the luck runs out, it will continue to blow up. At that time, I didn’t understand fund management. Technical analysis. I also had a half-understanding, and I made orders based on my feelings. When I made money, I ate and drank happily, and when I lost money, I was angry and had no interest in studying. I started trading in the second semester of my freshman year, and by the time I graduated from my senior year, I had lost 150,000 yuan. If I had lost all of it at once, I would have given up. I was afraid of this kind of slow-moving knife, a little bit of explosion, a little bit of loss. Except for a little bit of mental training, there was no improvement in other aspects, and it almost delayed my graduation. Now I think it’s really not worth it. I lost money and wasted a lot of time, but life is also an experience. I am also grateful for this experience, which makes me different from ordinary college students.
After graduation, I went to a securities company. I came into contact with stocks in June 2015, just when the stock market crash happened. When the crash came, I saw my friends who went bankrupt and in debt for the first time in my life. It was also the first time I had the concept of risk in my mind. In order to avoid going down this path in the future, I gradually formed my own sub-control model, which laid the foundation for future derivatives trading. The financial market is like this, it comes and goes quickly, and traders are on the edge of a knife, fighting fiercely. To survive in this market, you must have your own trump card.
I worked in a brokerage firm for three years in a daze. Later, I quit and went to a private equity company of a friend. It was also the year that I came into contact with digital currency and contract trading. What attracted me to contracts at that time was that they were similar to foreign currencies, and I could make a small investment to win a big investment. They were much friendlier than stocks, and I could trade long and short. Moreover, they were 24/7 transactions without rest. This was simply too attractive at the time. It was because of this damn charm that I lost more than 800,000 yuan in the contract market for another two years. This had already wiped out all my savings after work, and I still owed a lot of credit cards.
It was under this most extreme situation that I decided to trade full-time. It was also at this time that the conflict between me and my family reached its peak. I didn't tell my family about my debt. I knew it was impossible to pay off my credit card debt by working. The only way was trading. If I didn't succeed, I would die. My family thought I was unsteady and out of tune with my peers. The most important thing was that I failed their cultivation and their hopes. This is what is called the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. At that time, I was powerless to refute because I couldn't hold anything practical to refute. The only thing I could do was to do the transactions I was familiar with, polish my trading system, and slowly transform from an old leek.
At this time, my luck came. With the sharp rise of Ethereum in 2020 and the arrival of the bull market, I also began to make stable profits. At that time, I reviewed and reviewed every day, only traded intraday, and resolutely did not hold overnight, and controlled risks. Although I earned less, I also reduced volatility and gradually matured psychologically. It was also this year that I made back all the previous losses and had savings. Until now, the transaction is still there, and there is a surplus, but the mood has changed. I don’t care about many things anymore, because I have experienced both bull and bear markets, and I have seen all kinds of unexpected extreme market conditions. I feel that making money through trading is like playing games and upgrading, but I love life more and slowly begin to enjoy the ordinary.
My own experience of 30 years is that life is all about experience. It is really not important what you do, and it is not important what others think of you. The important thing is to never make yourself too embarrassed. Enjoy your life in this short life and live your life decently. This will make you very happy. I wish you can find your own way.