The market is not always one-sided
You can make money when the market is good, but once it enters a sideways market or bear market, it's a complete loss. What does this indicate? It indicates that you have no strategy, only direction.
So stop complaining that "the market isn't good." The market is not at fault; the mistake lies in your strategy and your lack of awareness that you are relying on luck.
Beginner traders who rely on luck are the largest group in the cryptocurrency space. When the market is good, your account swells with profits; this is just the market's gift to you. You are not truly making money. When the market turns bad, it’s a bloodbath, your mentality collapses, making money depends on luck, losing depends on sheer resilience.
Traders who can survive in any market environment have strategies that are no longer about betting on rising or falling prices, but rather about constructing a structural profit and loss curve around "volatility." Regardless of whether the market rises, falls, fluctuates, or crashes, they have ways to profit.
The direction of the market is never key; volatility itself is the source of profit.
Truly good one-sided markets happen only a few times a year. That comfortable situation of holding onto assets and waiting for prices to rise will only become rarer in the future.
Think back over the past year; how many times have you experienced a situation where buying led to immediate gains or even doubling your investment? The problem is that such conditions will become less frequent, shorter-lived, and faster. If you are still relying on holding assets for a double return, your only reward will be repeated losses.
So for beginner traders who depend on luck, I want to say that you must step out of the mentality of making money from the market's grace. This trading system has long been eliminated in the current market. You cannot control the market, but your strategy can be upgraded from betting on direction to constructing a hedging structure, a trading system that can be continuously iterated and optimized.
When the market is uncertain, build a structure that allows you to make money without relying on direction. Gradually build your own trading arsenal. You can try to master contracts, options, hedging, arbitrage, and other tools. Only when you have a complete arsenal can you find angles to act in all market conditions, turning each market situation into a part of your strategy. Evolve from a gambler to a trader.
