There’s a guy in our group who used to do wedding photography in Chengdu. He carried the equipment on his shoulders for seven or eight years, and his neck developed an ailment. He saved around four hundred thousand yuan and originally planned to upgrade to better gear and buy a car.
Last year, during that market surge, he wasn’t willing to just watch. First he traded spot, and later he got into futures contracts. I’ve heard him say something like: at his most疯狂, in one night his account would gain six digits, and he would sit in front of the computer with his hands trembling. Later, during a particular incident, a margin call hit—he got liquidated at the lowest point when his position got swept. He wouldn’t accept it, so he added more, and after he topped up, it kept falling. After all that, the four hundred thousand was left with less than thirty thousand, and he still owed over a hundred thousand to relatives.
For a while, he deleted the trading software. If anyone mentioned market updates, he would get angry. During the day he shot weddings for people, and at night he edited photos. He worked six or seven days a week.
The turning point was pretty uneventful. The money for the time his mother was hospitalized was borrowed from others. When he came back, he took out a sheet of A4 paper, wrote three rules he set for himself, and taped them beside his monitor. Then he kept only a tiny amount of position, finished his work, went for a run, and stopped pulling all-nighters. Slowly over the year, he paid off most of the debts. Whether his account could get back to break-even—he never mentioned it. In any case, he never went all-in again.
There’s one thing he said that I remember very clearly: “Money that lets you sleep at night is the money that’s truly yours.”
Do you have someone like that around you—someone who, after falling to rock bottom, slowly pulls their life back together bit by bit?
#币圈故事 #合约 #risk
Last year, during that market surge, he wasn’t willing to just watch. First he traded spot, and later he got into futures contracts. I’ve heard him say something like: at his most疯狂, in one night his account would gain six digits, and he would sit in front of the computer with his hands trembling. Later, during a particular incident, a margin call hit—he got liquidated at the lowest point when his position got swept. He wouldn’t accept it, so he added more, and after he topped up, it kept falling. After all that, the four hundred thousand was left with less than thirty thousand, and he still owed over a hundred thousand to relatives.
For a while, he deleted the trading software. If anyone mentioned market updates, he would get angry. During the day he shot weddings for people, and at night he edited photos. He worked six or seven days a week.
The turning point was pretty uneventful. The money for the time his mother was hospitalized was borrowed from others. When he came back, he took out a sheet of A4 paper, wrote three rules he set for himself, and taped them beside his monitor. Then he kept only a tiny amount of position, finished his work, went for a run, and stopped pulling all-nighters. Slowly over the year, he paid off most of the debts. Whether his account could get back to break-even—he never mentioned it. In any case, he never went all-in again.
There’s one thing he said that I remember very clearly: “Money that lets you sleep at night is the money that’s truly yours.”
Do you have someone like that around you—someone who, after falling to rock bottom, slowly pulls their life back together bit by bit?
#币圈故事 #合约 #risk