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Summary: A 42-year-old finance professional with more than 10 years of investment experience is, in other people’s eyes, one of the best at understanding the market. But after entering the crypto space, he still went through a profound lesson in market reality—and as a result, he realized that the biggest enemy of trading is not the market, but his own cognition and emotions. With years of accumulation in the financial industry, he first studied blockchain from the perspective of industry logic and positioned himself in mainstream assets such as BTC and ETH. During market uptrend cycles, he earned profits, and for the first time he felt the changes in wealth brought by the digital asset market. After becoming profitable, however, he gradually overestimated his own abilities. Because the experience he built in traditional finance made him think he could judge market direction, he began to trust his predictions in contract trading and increased his risk exposure. Ultimately, a market reversal led to a major drawdown—and made him realize that experience cannot be a reason to ignore risk. After going through losses, he rebuilt his trading system. He stopped fixating on predicting the market’s top and bottom and instead placed even more emphasis on risk management. He began controlling position size, accepting the uncertainty of trades, strictly following discipline, and turning trading—from a tool for proving himself—back into a part of long-term wealth management. This story tells all traders: the market will not give you special treatment because of your education, profession, or past performance. A truly mature investor isn’t someone who is always right—it’s someone who can still control losses when things go wrong, stay calm, and keep growing. In the end, trading isn’t about who can predict best; it’s about who can last longer. Position management determines survivability, and st