Last night, someone in the group complained: the more you watch the market, the more money you lose. Why is that?

I replied: If you treat the K-line like an electrocardiogram and value your position more than your life, how can you not panic?

Having been in the crypto space for a long time, I have seen too many people fall due to their positions: those who go all in, immediately close the software and play dead when it drops, and those who get nervous and want to run when it rises a little; those who are out of the market, who miss opportunities after three days of not watching the market, and then regret it; only those who stick to “half position + stop loss” are happy every day, with a steadily rising profit curve.

This is not luck; it’s the “game mentality” that trading should have: not getting carried away when winning, not cursing when losing; not shifting blame when blowing up, and not inflating when making money. Focus only on “how to play the next game,” without getting entangled in “how to recover from the last game.”

To instill this mentality into your trading system, three steps are enough:

First, don’t go all in. If you put all your capital on the line, you turn from a trader into a gambler, and all that’s left in your mind is prayer, ultimately only earning you high blood pressure.

Second, don’t remain out of the market. If you have no coins, your sensitivity to the market drops to zero — only realizing too late in a bull market and being blindly happy in a bear market, your understanding and capital shrink together.

Third, adjust your position to a “light pressure” zone. I have a simple method: when lying in bed at eleven o’clock at night, if a sudden news event can wake you up instantly, then your position is just right. Too sleepy? Too little money, no motivation; can’t sleep? Too much money, your heart can’t take it.

I personally keep a position of 40%-60%, feeling pain when it drops by 10% but not smashing my computer, happy when it rises by 20% but not contemplating quitting my job. In the morning, I check the market but won’t be frightened by small fluctuations over 15 minutes.

Someone asked: Is the game mentality about lying flat? Completely wrong. It’s actually the most aggressive offense — forcing you to focus on “how to win the next game,” not “how to recover from the last game.” The former can yield replicable strategies, while the latter will only accumulate a pile of emotions ready to explode.

Thus, trading should be “gamified”: fixed positions as “monster-fighting equipment,” stop losses as “revival coins,” and reviews as “level-clearing strategies.” When you do these three things well, you’ll find: the market is still the same market, the coins are still those coins, but you have transformed from “being cut as chives” into a consistently profitable “gold farming studio.”

Finally, let me say something practical: don’t treat trading as a life-and-death situation; just treat it like a ranking match. Once your rank goes up, your capital is merely a trophy that comes with it. #山寨币市场回暖