Over 8 years in the circle, so many trading stories, one of which is really worth recording #MyGateTradingMoments

The biggest losses I had while playing coins weren’t during major market crashes, but during countless emotional impulsive trades in choppy markets.

I used to have a deadly flaw: if I didn’t trade every day, I’d get itchy. Watching the charts spike up and down, I couldn’t help but enter trades. Small profits, I’d take them and run; small losses, I’d hold on; if I couldn’t bear it, I’d cut. After cutting, I’d immediately chase in the opposite direction. Dozens of trades a week, busy as hell. At the end of the month, it was all fees and tiny losses.

I always thought: to make money, you need to watch the charts closely, enter more trades, and not miss any volatility.

I remember one ETH trade on Gate that completely “woke me up.”

At that time, the overall market was weak. After a small rebound, it started a continuous decline. The community was full of panic voices—some said the rebound was over and a big drop was coming, others kept bottom-fishing and getting buried. Overall sentiment was very pessimistic.

ETH kept falling, down to the 1700 range. Honestly, the chart looked terrifying—green bearish candles stacking up, no support visible in the short term.

If it had been me before, I would have been carried away by emotion—either cutting at the low and going bearish, or frequently trying short positions with small lots, bouncing back and forth, getting beaten up.

But that day, I calmly reviewed the situation for a long time. The daily chart’s overall structure wasn’t broken; this was just a normal healthy pullback after a rebound. The 1700 level was tested multiple times and was a strong support, not a breakdown.

So for the first time, against everyone’s panic, I gently opened a long position around 1700.

After opening the position, it didn’t immediately rise. The market then dragged on for two full days, repeatedly testing patience—wicking up and down, shaking out traders. Several times, it almost hit my mental stop-loss. More and more people in the group were bearish, sharing losses and cut positions. Honestly, I also felt uneasy.

Countless times I wanted to close the position, stop-loss, or flip to short. But I forced myself to hold: the logic was intact, support hadn’t broken, the trend hadn’t changed. Why should I act recklessly?

I turned off the constantly refreshing charts, stopped paying attention to short-term fluctuations, and just stuck to my levels and logic.

It was this persistence that made me see the difference.

After the shakeout, capital flowed back into the bulls, and the market gradually stabilized, rose, and lifted higher. No explosive surge, no miracles—just steady trend-following.

I finally took profit at the 2000 target level. Not a huge profit, not a double overnight, but the most precious and clear-headed trade of my career.

This trade wasn’t about money; it was about cognition.

I finally understood: losing money in trading isn’t because the market is bad, but because we’re too impatient, too greedy, and lack patience.

Ninety percent of market volatility is a trap; only ten percent of the clear trends are worth trading.

In the past, I chased those 90% of fluctuations and lost; now, I wait only for that 10% of certainty and profit.

Since that trade, I’ve completely broken the bad habit of frequent trading.

Trading has become extremely disciplined: don’t trade if you don’t understand, don’t trade if uncertain, don’t trade if emotional.
Trades decreased, mindset stabilized, and my account started steadily recovering.

Many people trade frequently their whole lives but never truly change themselves; I’m lucky I met that one trade.

What truly makes traders grow isn’t huge profits, but the perseverance to stick to rules and conquer inner demons! #我的Gate交易时刻