As a steadfast e-guard spot trader, I rarely play with contracts, but I will consider opening positions at the following two key locations:

Looking back, Ethereum's rise from 1500 to 4000 is actually not surprising to me.

At that time, many people were still in panic, shouting about a crash, but I felt it was an opportunity.

Back then, ETH had just experienced a significant drop, with sentiment at a freezing point. On-chain activity and trading volume had indeed decreased, but I was looking at the long-term logic — it remains the core of the entire public chain ecosystem. Although SOL, ADA, and XRP were chasing in market capitalization, they couldn't compare with ETH in terms of ecosystem depth, liquidity, or real-world applications. As long as blockchain continues to develop, ETH's position is hard to shake.

Of course, the journey hasn't been smooth sailing; there were wash trading, false breakouts, and emotional fluctuations along the way. But starting from 1500, my judgment has always been: prices can be misaligned in the short term, but long-term value does not lie.

Now, standing at 4000 dollars and looking back, this wave of market activity only validates an old adage — in a bull market, those who truly make big money are not the ones chasing trends, but those who dare to buy when no one is optimistic and have the patience to hold on. $ETH