Losing money a lot of the time isn’t because the market is bad—it’s because you buy wrong from step one.



When people lose money, they immediately blame the market, blame the whales, blame the trading conditions for not giving them a chance.

But open your own holdings and take a look—are you holding a bunch of coins that you can’t even clearly explain what they do?

Their names are popular and the stories sound great, but whether they actually have value—you’re not even sure yourself.

Dormant coins with no trading volume look like the price hasn’t really fallen, but when you truly want to sell, you discover there’s basically no one to take the other side. With poor liquidity, even the “best” price is just a number—without capital paying attention, it’s hard to sustain a real trend.

Coins that can be minted endlessly: the team keeps unlocking and releasing supply. You think you’re holding assets, but the value has been diluted all along. The coin price doesn’t rise, but your holdings keep becoming less and less worth it.

Hot coins that only know how to tell stories—today they ride AI, tomorrow they jump on RWA, the day after that they switch to another new concept. One hot theme after another, yet no real product and no real users. When the hype is here, they rise fast; when the hype fades, they fall the fastest.

After trading for so many years, I’ve increasingly come to believe that making money isn’t about thinking first about what to buy—it’s about knowing what you must not buy.

What’s truly worth long-term attention is often projects that have real business, stable ecosystems, and market recognition. They will also experience pullbacks with the market, but when conditions improve, capital usually flows back to these kinds of assets first.

Even though the market is choppy right now, opportunities have always been there.

Don’t always try to chase the hottest coins—first learn to avoid the most dangerous traps.

Holding on to your principal matters more than catching a single explosive surge.

You don’t lack opportunities—you lack the courage to take that first step.

Don’t keep hesitating—turn your fortunes with the right timing, and follow the North-South as it begins.
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AuroraStone
· 07-15 11:42
That’s too painful to hear. In my holdings, I really have a few coins—I don’t even know what they’re for; I just bought them back then because the names looked hot and I followed the hype. Now I’m trapped in them for good, tight and solid.
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GateUser-0d1088ad
· 07-15 09:49
Protecting your principal matters more than becoming rich overnight, but why did the last line suddenly turn into an advertisement? Are they even daring to push an OpenAI subscription—does that contradict what they said earlier about avoiding scams?
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