At three in the morning, the cold light from the screen hit my face, blinding like a judgment.
Account balance: 702U.
My fingers were shaking, my heart felt like it was being gripped tightly by a cold hand.
Just three weeks ago, I was proudly sharing a screenshot of 28,000U in my friend circle. But in the blink of an eye, after successive liquidations, everything went to zero.
This is not the first time. In four years in the crypto world, I have been liquidated seventeen times. The most painful time was that night with LUNA, 680,000U was swallowed by a black hole, without even a sound.
But this time, it was harder to bear than any other—because this time, I was not only responsible for myself, but also had a dozen brothers behind me who trusted me.
'Hao Ge, how about... we take a break?' My partner Xiao Chen messaged me.
I stared at that sentence for a full twenty minutes, unable to type a single reply.
At that moment, all the images flooded into my mind: the friends who transferred money without hesitation, the daily greetings in the group asking, 'Does Hao Ge watch the market?', and my own repeated encouragements and visions for the future... Reality, however, swung its arm and slapped me hard in the face.
It was at that moment that I became fully awake:
The most terrifying thing in the crypto world is not the liquidation, but the 'inner demon' that emerges after it. Most people end up losing everything, not because they can't read the market, but because they 'can't help but want to make a comeback overnight.' The more anxious you are, the faster you die.
That night, I made two decisions:
From now on, I will never pursue 'an overnight comeback' again. A comeback relies not on luck, but on discipline.
I want to establish a set of extremely simple, replicable, and foolproof trading disciplines—not to get rich, but to survive.
Many people later laughed at me, saying my approach was too foolish, not exciting at all.
But it was precisely because of this 'foolish method' that I started from that 702U and gradually made my way back.
I am not a naturally talented player, but someone who has been humbled by the market. What you see is my success after the comeback, but you haven't seen the despair I felt staring at 702U that morning.
The crypto world has never been a 'game for the brave.'
It is a battlefield for the patient and a survival training for the disciplined.
Smart people rely on talent, ordinary people gamble on luck, but in the end, the only people who can stay in the game are those who—
Can maintain discipline and suppress their inner demons.
This is not just motivational talk; it's the lessons I've bought with real money and countless sleepless nights.
It's also the most honest account I can give to my brothers.
—At three in the morning, 702U turned into a million.
My comeback began with accepting 'the ordinary.'
