# "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. It's not anxiety over the account losses that keeps me awake, but rather a sigh about how time flies—I'm already in my thirties, and the best phase of this life game has mostly passed. I still haven't become the person I wanted to be.

I am a fortunate person. In 2025, I fought a beautiful comeback battle—I climbed out of the debt quagmire for the third time on my own. However, I remain very clear-headed about this. I attribute it to luck. I simply happened to encounter market conditions that suited my strengths. In our circle, there are quite a few people who have made life-changing money, but ultimately didn't keep it. In fact, they didn't just lose the money—they also lost the opportunity to comfortably be an ordinary person. The feeling of falling from great heights is too painful. Most people have been destroyed by it, especially those who only succeeded by riding the industry's dividend wave.

When first entering this circle, the word most frequently heard is "cognition." Initially, I was dismissive of it, thinking people who constantly hung this word on their lips were pretentious, acting as if they possessed superior insight. Only after my life went through several roller coasters did I understand the weight of the word "cognition." Your life's height may fluctuate due to luck, but cognition is the mean you will ultimately return to. You can temporarily earn money beyond your cognition, but eventually you will lose that money back through your cognition.

In this current market, I know many people are struggling—really struggling. Some even feel their lives are about to fall apart, apologizing to their families and themselves. Stopping on the wrong path is actually the correct beginning. Stop your reckless hands from placing blind bets, see clearly what kind of market this is now. The difficulty of making big money in a market with no money is equivalent to creating something from nothing.

It's like a gambling game—the winners have already left the table, and only a few losers with little money remain inside, cutting each other up. When the game reaches this stage, it's actually near its end. Your unwillingness to accept it and your refusal to admit defeat will only drain your energy for nothing. Your best choice is to go home, take a bath, and have a good sleep, awaiting the start of the next new gambling game! Believe me, there will be one!