Last night, someone in the community asked: "Why do I keep losing the more I watch the market?" I replied: "You treat candlestick charts like an ECG and value your position more than your life — if your mindset collapses, your trades will surely lose."

After being in the crypto space for a while, you will find:

All-in players: when the market drops, they close their computers and give up; when it rises, they tremble with fear of a pullback, being controlled by the market;

Those with no positions: regret missing out and kick themselves, only to chase highs after realizing a bull market, watching the excitement in a bear market, with both their understanding and capital shrinking;

Only those with "half positions + stop loss": easy every day, and their account curves steadily rise.

This is the effect of a "game mentality": not boasting when winning, not cursing when losing, not shifting blame when facing liquidation, and not inflating profits; focusing on "how to play the next game," not getting tangled up in "how to lose the previous game."

Incorporating the "game mentality" into your trading system requires just three steps:

Step one, never go All-in. Putting all your capital in will turn you from a "player" into a "gambler," leaving only prayers and making mistakes due to panic.

Step two, do not stay in cash for too long. With no positions, market sensitivity goes to zero, missing opportunities in a bull market and losing rhythm in a bear market, making it hard to accumulate experience and improve understanding.

Step three, adjust your position to the "slightly pressured" zone. My method: if I can wake up due to sudden news in the middle of the night, my position is just right — too sleepy means a lighter position, hard to focus; insomnia means a heavier position, easy to feel anxious. I often keep 40%-60% of my position, so both rises and falls are controllable, not disturbed by short-term market fluctuations.

Someone asked: "Is the game mentality just lying flat?" Wrong, this is aggressive offense: focusing on "how to win the next game" (optimizing strategies, finding stable entry points), rather than "how to get back what was lost in the previous game" (being swept by emotions and internal losses).

Trading should be "gamified": fixed positions as "gear," stop-loss as "revival coins," and reviewing trades as "strategies." When taken to the extreme, you will find: the market and coins remain unchanged, but you have evolved from "retail investor" to "gold farming studio."

Finally, here's a saying: don't treat trading as a life-and-death gamble, just see it as a game ranking match; as your "trading rank" increases, your capital is merely an accompanying trophy. @Air 安叔