At 2 AM, when the private message notification light turned on, the text in the dialogue box shimmered like moonlight shattering on ice, each sentence trembling. This girl named 'Xiao Yu' once smiled holding a coffee cup in her Moments, her dimpled face filled with early summer sunlight, but now she leaves a trail of bloodied footprints in the financial desert.
🌌 Act One: 1 million thrown into the K-line galaxy, but fell into a counterfeit black hole.
'When I first transferred money, my husband said it was just buying a ticket to life.' In the wind at the end of the 2021 bull market, hot posts in the community were like bait sprinkled with gold dust—someone showcased a seaside house contract exchanged for Dogecoin, and the jumping red numbers on the K-line seemed like breathing treasures. She divided her million capital into three bets, investing in three 'new coins with strong community consensus,' feeling she held the key to Pandora's box, unaware that it was a time-space trap laid by the market maker.
The news of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates fell like cold stars, and the market surged into a black hurricane. The coin she heavily invested in dropped from 0.8U to 0.01U, and the numbers on the trading page resembled a sandcastle devoured by the tide, leaving only 50,000 in her wallet, shining faintly. Once shouting 'hundredfold surge' in the group chat, now it was filled with QR codes for rights protection groups; she looked at the account screenshot and smiled bitterly: 'It turns out I bottomed out and became a cave dweller, guarding a pile of numerical tombstones.'
💫 Act Two: 50,000 betting game begins, the death web woven by leverage.
'Looking at the 50,000 in my account, I suddenly felt that it was the spark of rebirth.' In her candlelight theory, the upward curve of a certain coin was drawn as a staircase to financial freedom. When her finger pressed the confirm button for an all-in long position, the K-line suddenly plummeted; the 50,000 principal vanished before she could even see the liquidation pop-up, dissolving into a fading pixel on the screen.
More bone-deep than loss is the unwillingness—that feeling of watching wealth slip through your fingers leaves her finger rusted as she opens the online loan APP. The borrowing limit feels like a melting snow line, and the digits on the micro-loan climb steadily; the loan contract handed over by the intermediary glows temptingly under the desk lamp with an amount of 300,000. 'One more win and I’ll be safe' became her mantra inscribed in a memo, yet she was unaware that she had already stepped into the death web woven by leverage.
🔥 Act Three: 300,000 burned down to 30,000 sparks, marriage carbonized in bills.
She converted 300,000 into contract leverage, watching the market 24/7 as if guarding a wake. In the dark circles of her eyes at 3 AM, the fluctuations of the K-line were reflected, and the caffeine surged in her veins like a river of anxiety. She had once experienced the ecstasy of her account soaring to 500,000, but in the greed of 'earning another 100,000,' she faced the cold wave of the main force's needle. When the number froze at 30,000, she stared at the decimal point on the screen, suddenly recalling the star story her son wanted to hear before bed.
On the day her husband discovered that the car keys in the garage had been replaced with an online loan contract, the sound of their marriage certificate falling onto the marble floor cracked like ice. 'You and your K-line can live together for a lifetime,' he slammed the door, while the child holding a picture book asked, 'Mom, did Dad go find us some stars?' Xiao Yu's voice message suddenly cut off here, and in the background, there was a suppressed sobbing, like rain hitting an empty wine bottle.
🪐 When desire collapses into a black hole, how do we salvage ourselves?
Scrolling through her Moments, she saw a post from three months ago: a screenshot of a certain coin's rebound, captioned 'There is light in the valley.' Now she understands that the light was merely the phosphorescence at the edge of the abyss. The cruelest romanticism in the crypto world lies in: all scripts claiming 'comebacks' have long marked the ransom for souls in the dark. Contract leverage is glass shards wrapped in icing, and behind the hundredfold myth of altcoins is a coin-operated meat grinder set up by the market maker.
🌿 Perhaps we should light these three lamps in the fog:
❶ Have you studied the white papers of cryptocurrencies? Or do you only believe in the 'insider red packets' shared by friends in the group?
❷ If your marriage reaches its end, how do you plan to use that 30,000 for your child's kindergarten tuition for a few months?
❸ Will the unwillingness burning in this moment turn the moonlight of the next decade into charcoal?
The backend often receives similar stories: a girl losing the down payment for her marital home, a father hiding in the stairwell to smoke after being liquidated. The financial market has never been a dream machine, especially in leveraged bets—winning is the occasional dew, losing is the inevitable tide.
Dear, true awakening is not 'I can win,' but 'I can't afford to lose.' Learning technology might not make you wealthy overnight, but not learning it will surely make you struggle to move forward! On the nights when you turn off the trading software, try to learn technical knowledge, try to make your husband a cup of warm tea, and even starting from delivering takeout to save up for the first repayment is better than being clueless about technology while blindly sinking deeper into the digital abyss.
(If you have ever floated in the sea of desire, like👍 + follow 'Xiao Bai learns points,' leave a glimmer in the comments so that more people can see—life is worth it, and you don't have to wager your life.)
💡 Note: Investing is like walking in the dark; always carry the lantern of 'risk awareness,' stay away from the fog of leverage, and refuse to blindly chase light.
Finally, I suggest everyone study the theories I highlighted in the image: [A high | winning | rate | trading | model], [Wave Theory], [Chan Theory], [Gann Theory], [Wyckoff Method], etc. Then, you will live an extraordinary life!
