In the morning, I check the profit report, and in the evening, I don't care about anything. The account numbers are so large that there's no need to count them in detail. Once wealth accumulates to a certain stage, all that's left are those few cold numbers on the screen.

Recently, I整理了一遍持仓, and I realized that my main assets are already concentrated in BTC and ETH. I don't need to monitor the market, I don't need to get up in the middle of the night to check the prices, but I feel like something is missing. Sometimes I think back to myself 8 years ago—I had pieced together 2000U to jump in, without understanding what a stop loss was. Back then, I could stay up until 3 a.m. to chase a trend, and even a fluctuation of 0.1 could affect my mood for the whole day; every bit of profit I made was mixed with the taste of sweat.

People around me often ask: "You've already achieved financial freedom, so why keep struggling?" It's actually not about money. It's about seeing newcomers, who enter the market with the small amounts they've saved through hard work, fall into pitfalls that could have been easily avoided just because no one guided them. Watching them evolve from "not even understanding candlestick charts" to "being able to make stable profits" brings a sense of satisfaction that is even more thrilling than having a few extra zeros in my account.

So today I want to talk about not some complicated theories, but just share the three "stupid methods" I've accumulated over the past 8 years of hard work and struggle. They are all practical content that beginners can immediately use, and they are the truths I most hoped someone would explain clearly and in detail to me back then.

Let's start with the first one: It's better to lose clearly than to gain confusedly—stop-loss is your lifeline.

I initially lost three trades in a row, all due to the same mistake: "Let's wait a little longer, maybe it will bounce back?"

What I got instead was a direct halving of my principal. The most brutal time was when I bought a newly launched small coin, it dropped by 20% and I held on tightly, in the end, I ended up losing 80%. It was after that time that I truly awakened: setting a stop-loss is not about admitting defeat, but rather leaving a way out for my erroneous judgment.

Since then, I have set a strict rule for myself: each order must have an 8% stop loss (the specific ratio should still be adjusted according to one's risk tolerance). This habit has been maintained to this day.