After I looked at his positions, my first reaction wasn’t anger.
It’s both heartbreaking + helpless.
Because his positions are really interesting:
Bearish near BTC 66,600,
Bearish near ETH 1859,
Short near SOL 74.
And these positions are exactly opposite to the direction I publicly called out in this wave.
When I called for big BTC long, he was short.
When I called for Ethereum long, he was short.
When I called for SOL long, he was still short.
Isn’t that just ironic?
This isn’t simply a “direction went the other way.”
This is what a trader does repeatedly against the trend when the higher-timeframe structure hasn’t been broken.
And recently, the market has once again proven something: on September 21st, BTC, ETH, and SOL all set new highs for the phase, and the market also showed a clear squeeze of shorts (bullish squeeze driving shorts to cover).
So I’m increasingly convinced that:
What’s really scary isn’t that you can’t make money.
It’s actually:
You can’t judge the bigger timeframe, yet you dare to gamble real money on the big move.
Many people always ask me:
“Dao-ge, why after trading for 9 years you’re getting more and more reluctant to guess the top?”
It’s very simple.
Because the market has educated me.
When I’m watching the charts now, the first thing isn’t:
“Is this the top?”
but it’s actually:
What is the bigger timeframe?
Has the structure been broken?
Has the trend changed?
Is the current position worth going against the trend?
If I’m wrong, where do I admit it?
If you haven’t figured these things out,
Why are you keep opening reverse trades in a major trend?
What makes me feel the most uncomfortable is:
He said he’s already lost $100,000.
What does $100,000 mean?
For many ordinary families, ordinary office workers,
This might be many years of savings.
It could even be a loss that a whole family simply can’t bear.
So I’m not actually rejoicing that others are losing.
Exactly the opposite.
I really feel bad for them.
Because I know,
The most ruthless thing about this industry is:
The market won’t change just because you’re an ordinary person,
Just be a little kinder to you.
So I’ve been saying a really harsh sentence:
99% of people aren’t suitable for making trades with borrowed funds directly.
It’s not saying you can never do it.
Instead, you at least have to first learn:
Control risk > judge the trend > execute your system > and only then is it about making money.
Many people do the opposite instead.
The first thing he asked was:
“Which coin can double?”
“Where can I go all-in?”
“Is this the top?”
“Can it be short?”
Then after losing,
“Dao-ge, what do I do?”
Bro…
If you treat the market like an ATM, the market will treat you like an ATM.
In this move, I myself really did make more than $2 million.
In theory, you should feel pretty happy.
But to be honest,
I can’t get happy like I used to anymore.
Because what I’m seeing isn’t my own account.
What I see is another problem:
What if one day I really leave this industry?
I’ll get tired too.
Nine years of trading.
Watching the market every day, reviewing afterward, researching, issuing strategies, answering questions.
Now I’m taking trainees—30-day on-site courses, and afterward there’s another year of live mentorship.
The $21,000 you bought isn’t just a line of:
“Go long on BTC.”
And it’s definitely not buying some magical indicator.
I’m buying the trading system I built from the mistakes I made and the tuition I paid over nine years, plus a year of live陪跑 (real-time co-trading and guidance).
Is this thing expensive or not?
Everyone has their own judgment.
But I always feel that:
If you haven’t even built up your own trading ability, then learning after you’ve lost $100,000 is completely different from learning before you’ve lost $10,000.
I currently have these eight trainees with me…
In this move, they didn’t go head-on against the bigger trend.
Not because they suddenly got smarter.
Rather, I talk about it every day.
Reminding you all the time.
Staring at it every day.
Start from the bottom and follow the structure all the way.
What I hope they learn in the end isn’t even:
“Teacher made me how much money.”
But one day,
I’m not beside you. You also know when you should act—and when you shouldn’t.
That’s what it really means to learn.
So today when I saw this follower’s position,
I really want to say this:
Stop asking me if I can get you out of the trap.
ask yourself first:
Why are you opening all these short orders at this position?
Why does your judgment keep going in the opposite direction of the bigger timeframe?
When other people are making money, why are you constantly increasing your own losses?
Figuring this question out matters ten thousand times more than me telling you whether the next trade should be long or short.
The market always has the next opportunity.
But your principal might not be.
I’ve been trading for nine years.
Right now, the biggest wish isn’t even to prove how awesome they are.
It’s not about:
The direction I call out—someone can truly understand it.
The risk I talk about—someone can truly carry it out.
The people I bring can slowly learn how to make money on their own.
It’s like a line I thought of when I watched a movie recently:
I just want everyone to eat well—properly and steadily.
On this table of the market,
Some people are eating,
Some people are gambling with their lives.
What I can do is,
It’s basically as much as possible to take the path I walked for nine years—
I’ll tell you.
The rest of the way,
You still have to walk your own path.
Don’t wait until you’ve lost $100,000 before you start seriously learning how to trade.
😮💨
Price action won’t sympathize with anyone.
But a trader should at least learn how to keep themselves alive first.