#My Gate Trading Moments

The entire network is filled with bearish sentiment and talk of market dumps. Many traders panic and cut their losses. I combined on-chain miner position data with changes in large spot coin-holding addresses to judge that this was a benign deep washout rather than a trend turning bearish. I didn’t go all-in at once; instead, in Gate’s spot market, I built a BTC spot position in three tiers of price levels, reserving half of my funds to handle a potential second pullback and holding the safety bottom line for my principal.

At the same time, short-term market heat shifted toward Solana-based meme coins. I took out a small portion of idle funds to enter with a light position, catching a quick take-profit during the rally fueled by community “we’re all together” momentum—only taking profits from the middle segment of the main upward wave. I was never greedy and refused to hold all the way to the end of the move, avoiding the risk that meme coins could skyrocket and then collapse rapidly. This small profit from the position just happened to cover my daily trading fees. However, when I opened trend-following short-term BTC futures contracts, I temporarily loosened risk controls and increased leverage, and I was almost triggered into liquidation by a late-night needle-like spike in price. After urgently reducing my position and stopping the loss, I carefully reviewed everything and realized that in futures trading, emotion is always the biggest enemy. No matter how accurate your market judgment is, without position risk control, you can still end up losing everything.

To smooth out the high-volatility risk of crypto assets, I simultaneously allocated gold XAU in the Gate TradFi section as a defensive long position. I paired it with US tech leader ETFs as long-term core holdings to hedge, constructing an asset portfolio that is both offensively and defensively balanced. Afterward, as BTC arrived at a stable consolidation and rebound as expected, my spot positions steadily turned profitable, and the gold hedge also helped stabilize the overall account returns during the market’s sideways swings.