At 11:47 PM, the phone screen suddenly lit up.
A trembling voice message popped up: "Brother... I really can't hold on any longer..."
The account screenshot sent by Xiao Zhang made my heart tighten — the 300,000 yuan dowry money originally saved for the wedding now only has 18,000 left. This is all the savings he earned through five years of hard work and frugality.
I was silent for a long time and replied: "Xiao Zhang, let's replan."
The discipline of trading from despair to hope
I set three strict rules for Xiao Zhang:
Divide the funds into 10 portions, with each trade not exceeding 1,000 and a maximum of 2 trades per week, must lock in 40% profit immediately if a profit of 3% is achieved within 72 hours, and decisively stop loss if the loss exceeds 1.5%.
In the first week, he was as nervous as a beginner. When he first went long on BTC, he wanted to run after making just 1%. I had him look at his girlfriend's photo on his phone: "Think about how she will look in her wedding dress."
In the end, he exited at a 3% profit, and the 300 yuan received was just enough to buy a pair of wedding ring boxes. That day he sent me a message: "She smiled and said this was the happiest moment in the past six months."
The most painful realization: That time he violated the rules
A month later, the account returned to 36,000. But when Luna surged, he got greedy: "Let's wait a bit longer, maybe..."
I directly sent the text message urging payment to the wedding dress shop. He bit his lip and liquidated, making 25% less profit. Three days later, the coin price went to zero. He choked up on the voice message: "It turns out discipline is the best teacher."
A turning point six months later
After strictly adhering to the discipline for six months, the account slowly rose to 225,000.
The most thrilling moment was during a market crash when he only used 5% of his funds to build a position in batches as planned. Two weeks later, when the market warmed up and the account exceeded 180,000, he was at the wedding dress shop paying the deposit.
The sound of the card being successfully charged rang out, and this 28-year-old young man was in tears outside the fitting room: "I can finally give her an explanation."
The transformation now
Now Xiao Zhang has learned restraint.
"I used to think about getting rich overnight," he said recently in a voice message, "Now I understand, steadily making enough for the wedding expenses every week is more practical than anything else."
Yesterday, he sent a preview of the wedding dress photo with the message: "Brother, thank you for helping me understand that trading and marriage both require responsibility and patience."
True trading wisdom does not lie in seizing every market opportunity but in protecting the most important things.
Before, I was bumping around in the dark alone, now the light is in my hands.
The light is always on, will you follow? @币来财888