"Life and Trading"

Brothers, hello everyone. I'm trader Zhu Yidan. At this very moment, I'm lying in a bed in a foreign land unable to sleep. I'm not anxious about the losses on my account statement. I'm simply lamenting how time flies—I'm already in my thirties, and the best years of this game called life are more than half gone. I still haven't become the person I wanted to be.

I'm a fortunate person. In 2025, I orchestrated a beautiful comeback. I climbed out of the debt quagmire for the third time on my own. But I'm very clear-headed about it—I attribute it to luck. I just happened to encounter market conditions that suit my strengths. In our circle, many people have made enough money to change their lives, but ultimately they didn't keep it. In fact, they lost not just the money, but also the opportunity to be at peace living as an ordinary person. The feeling of falling from great heights is too painful. Most people are broken by it, especially those who only succeeded by catching industry dividends.

When I first entered this circle, the word I heard most was "cognition." At first, I sneered at it, thinking people who constantly hung this word on their lips were pretentious, acting like they had some profound understanding. Only after my life went through several roller coaster rides did I understand the weight of the word "cognition." Your life's peak may fluctuate due to luck, but cognition is the mean value you'll ultimately revert to. You can temporarily make money beyond your cognition, but you'll ultimately lose it back through trades reflecting your true cognition level.

I know many people are struggling in this current market. Really struggling. Some even feel their lives are about to fall apart—sorry to family, sorry to themselves. Stopping on the wrong path is the correct beginning. Stop your reckless betting. See clearly what kind of market this is. The difficulty of making big money in a market with no money is equivalent to creating something from nothing.

This is like a gambling game. The winners have already left the table. Only a few losers with little money remain, cutting each other. When a gambling game reaches this stage, it's actually near its end. Your reluctance, your refusal to accept defeat will only drain your energy for nothing. Your best choice is to go home, take a shower, get a good night's sleep, and wait for the next new gambling game to begin! Believe me, there will be one!