#My Gate Trading Moments

The entire network is filled with bearish opinions and talk of people “dumping” to smash the market. Many traders panic and cut their losses. I combined on-chain miner holdings data with unusual movements from large spot coin-holding addresses to judge that this was a benign, deep washout rather than a bearish trend. I didn’t go all-in at once—instead, in Gate’s spot market, I built my BTC spot position in three price tiers with a gradient approach, reserving half of the funds to deal with a potential second pullback, and keeping the safety bottom line for my principal.

At the same time, short-term market hype flowed toward Solana-based meme coins. I set aside a small portion of idle funds and took a light position to capture the rally driven by the community’s coordinated push upward—quickly taking profits. I only took the middle segment of the main upward move and never got greedy to hold until the very end of the trend, avoiding the risk of a rapid crash that often follows meme coins’ explosive surges. The profits from this small position were just enough to cover my daily trading fees. But when I went along with the trend to open short-term BTC futures, I briefly relaxed my risk controls and raised leverage. I ran into a late-night needle-like wick shock and nearly triggered liquidation. After urgently cutting down the position and stopping the loss, I carefully reviewed the trade and realized that in futures trading, emotion is always the biggest enemy. No matter how accurate your market judgment is, without position risk control and position management, you can still end up losing everything.

To smooth out the high-volatility risks of crypto assets, I also set up a gold XAU hedge in the Gate TradFi segment, and paired it with leading U.S. tech stock ETFs as a long-term core holding to hedge—building an asset allocation that’s strong on both offense and defense. Afterwards, BTC stabilized and rebounded as expected; my spot position kept generating steady profits, and the gold hedge also helped keep my overall account returns stable during periods of market fluctuation.