#我的Gate交易时刻 If I could only share one trade, I would choose the BTC spot purchase in January 2026.

Before that, I was a “contract fanatic”—placing orders every day, watching the charts daily, feeling anxious every day. Until BTC retraced to 92,000 in January, I didn’t open any contracts but bought some spot instead, and then—did nothing.

Two weeks later, BTC returned to 105,000, I closed the position, making a 14% profit. Not a big gain, but that trade made me realize for the first time: trading isn’t about who moves the most, but about who waits for the right moment.

I started studying macro cycles, on-chain data, and capital flows, rather than obsessing over 1-minute K-line wave counts. From a “high-frequency trader” to a “low-frequency investor,” my mindset stabilized, and my returns actually improved.

Many times, what shapes us isn’t the trade that earns the most money, but the one that changes our way of thinking.