The market is like a dog. Its disobedience is not its fault; it's because you haven't understood its behavior logic.
I am a dog trainer. In reality, the first lesson in training a dog isn't to teach it to 'sit,' but to teach you how to observe it.
I entered the cryptocurrency space because my family was scammed into a crypto 'seminar.' I started researching the market, trying to understand: why some people act like hunters during volatility while most can only follow the trend and get hit.
The more I study, the more I feel: the behavior logic of the market is essentially like a dog, a collection of emotional, reflexive, and conditioned responses.
🧠 I gradually clarified certain aspects of the market using three core principles of dog training.
1️⃣ Behavior is shaped by the environment, not determined by will.
A dog barks not because 'it is bad,' but because it has learned in certain situations that 'doing this can get feedback.' For example, it once got attention, food, or release for barking.
The market is the same. Most retail investors are not making judgments but are responding to conditioned reflexes.
🧾 For example, the surge of Dogecoin ($DOGE) in 2021 was not because the project was good, but because 'Elon Musk tweeted + everyone was shouting in the group + the charts were rising' created a reflex loop of 'green candlestick = making money.' As a result, a large number of users rushed in, becoming the final bag holders.
So every time you want to buy, ask yourself: 'Am I making a proactive judgment, or am I being pushed by the environment?'
If you make decisions in the middle of the night, during the peak of a group chat, hearing 'hurry up or you'll miss out,' you are most likely being led.
2️⃣ The more excited you are, the easier it is to be manipulated in the opposite direction.
A dog will not obey you when you are emotionally agitated; it will only become more chaotic. The more you shout, the more it jumps. The market is the same.
🧾 During the collapse of ($LUNA) in 2022, countless people transitioned from 'will it rebound?' to 'directly going to zero,' cutting losses or even borrowing to bottom-fish, all driven by a series of high-frequency emotional fluctuations inducing their decisions.
Therefore, setting a preset stop-loss + off-screen cooling mechanism: I once set a rule for myself that after a stop-loss, I must leave the screen for at least 30 minutes and not make a second judgment. This rule helped me preserve my capital during a significant drop.
3️⃣ If you want to control the market, first train yourself.
A dog will only obey you when the 'owner's state is stable.' The calmer you are, the more the dog trusts you; the market won't listen, but you can control how you respond to it.
🧾 One of my training methods is: delay acting on 'hot search coins' for at least 6 hours, forcing myself to write out the buying logic before placing an order. As a result, I avoided over 80% of impulsive actions, so I established my own 'cooling mechanism': for hot coins, I only set reminders and do not chase each order immediately, attaching a written reason for every order; if I don’t write, I don’t buy.
I am neither a technical expert nor an emotional mentor.
I care more about the relationship between behavior, environment, and response.
I believe: only by training yourself well first can you become the master of the market.
📌 Postscript
This is just the first article. In the future, I will continue to record: a dog trainer's notes on market behavior observations.
Not impulsive, not following the trend, but definitely leaving something behind.
🧷 If you also want to train yourself instead of chasing the market, feel free to follow me.
We can all become more rational versions of ourselves—starting from now.
