#My Gate Trading Moments

The whole network is filled with bearish commentary and talk of a sell-off. Many traders panic and cut their losses. Based on on-chain miner holding data and changes in large spot whale addresses, I determined that this was a benign, deep washout rather than a bearish trend. I didn’t go all-in at once; instead, in the Gate spot market, I built a BTC spot position in three tiers of price levels, keeping half of the funds reserved to respond to a potential second pullback, and I held the safety bottom line for my principal.

At the same time, short-term market heat shifted to Solana-based meme tokens. I took out a small portion of idle funds to position lightly, then quickly took profit during the rally driven by the community’s coordinated push—only capturing the middle portion of the main uptrend wave. I’m never greedy and never hold on to the very end of the move. I also avoided the risk of meme tokens experiencing an explosive surge followed by a rapid crash. This small-position profit just happens to cover my daily trading fees. However, when trading short-term BTC perpetual contracts in the same direction, I temporarily let my guard down, raised leverage, and ran into a late-night wick scenario that nearly triggered liquidation. After urgently reducing the position to stop the loss and carefully reviewing what happened, I realized that in contract trading, emotion is always the biggest enemy. No matter how accurate your market judgment is, without position risk control, you can still lose everything.

To smooth the high-volatility risk of crypto assets, I also allocated gold XAU for downside hedging in the Gate TradFi segment, pairing it with U.S. technology leader ETFs as a long-term base position to hedge and build an asset portfolio equipped for both offense and defense. After that, BTC arrived at a stabilization and rebound as expected. The spot position remained steadily profitable, and the gold hedge also helped keep overall account returns stable during the market’s choppy period.