#My Gate Trading Moments

The whole internet is filled with bearish talk and talk of dumping. Many traders panic and sell at a loss. Based on on-chain miner holdings data and the unusual movement of large spot coin-accumulation addresses, I judged it to be a benign, deep washout rather than a bear trend taking shape. I didn’t go all-in at once; instead, on Gate’s spot board, I built a BTC spot position in three tiers using a price-gradient approach, reserving half of my funds to handle a potential second pullback, and holding the safety bottom line of my principal.

At the same time, short-term market momentum flowed toward Solana-based meme coins. I put a small portion of my idle capital into a light-position setup, riding the rally as community capital banded together to push prices higher, and quickly took profits—only taking the middle portion of the main upward move. I was never greedy enough to hold it through to the very end of the run. This helped me avoid the risk of a rapid crash after a meme coin’s explosive surge. This small-position profit was just enough to cover my daily trading fees. But when I followed the trend to open short-term BTC futures on Gate, I temporarily loosened risk control and raised leverage. I then ran into a late-night wick that nearly triggered liquidation. After urgently reducing the position and stopping the loss, I carefully reviewed everything and realized that in contract trading, emotion is always the biggest enemy. No matter how accurate your market read is, if you can’t manage your position, everything can end in failure.

To smooth out the high-volatility risk of crypto assets, I also set up a long position in gold XAU as a safe-haven hedge in Gate’s TradFi segment, paired with long-term core holdings in U.S. technology-leading ETF products as a hedge against longer-term downside. I built an asset portfolio with both offense and defense. Going forward, BTC arrived at a stabilizing rebound as expected. My spot position steadily generated profits, and the gold hedge also helped stabilize the overall account returns during the market’s choppy period.