《Life and Trading》Brothers, hello everyone, I'm trader Zhu Yidan. At this moment, I'm lying in bed in a foreign land unable to sleep. I'm not anxious about the losses on my account statement, but rather lamenting how time flies—in the blink of an eye I'm already over thirty, and the best phase of this game called life is more than half gone. I still haven't become the person I wanted to be.

I am a fortunate person. In 2025, I made a beautiful comeback, pulling myself out of the debt quagmire for the third time. But I am very clear-headed—I attribute it to luck. I happened to encounter market conditions that suited my strengths. In our circle, there are many people who have made enough life-changing money, but ultimately failed to keep it. In fact, they didn't just lose the money; they also lost the opportunity to peacefully live as an ordinary person. The feeling of falling from great heights is too painful. Most people are destroyed by this, especially those who only succeeded by riding the industry's dividend wave.

When I first entered this circle, the most frequently heard word was "cognition." Initially, I was dismissive of it, thinking those who constantly mention this word were pretentious, making themselves sound wise. But after my life experienced several rollercoasters, I finally understood the weight of the word "cognition." Your life's height may fluctuate due to luck, but cognition is the mean value you ultimately return to. You may temporarily earn money beyond your cognition, but eventually you'll lose it back through your cognition.

In this current market, I know many people are struggling, really struggling, even feeling like their lives are about to fall apart. Sorry to family, sorry to yourself. Stopping on the wrong path is actually the correct beginning. Stop your reckless betting hands, see clearly what kind of market this is. The difficulty of making big money in a market with no money is equivalent to creating something from nothing.

This is like a gambling game—the winners have already left the table, and only a few broke losers remain, cutting each other up. When a gambling game reaches this stage, it's actually near its end. Your unwillingness to admit defeat will only waste your energy. Your best choice is to go home, take a bath, get a good sleep, and wait for the next new gambling game to begin! Believe me, it will come!