When you earned your first bucket of gold in the cryptocurrency world, were you confused?
When I first entered the cryptocurrency world, I was just trying it out with a casual attitude.
At that time, my salary was not high, and my annual income was just enough for basic needs and a little savings.
I didn’t expect that after only a month, my account balance skyrocketed to an amount equivalent to my annual salary.
At that moment, I was completely stunned—excitement, fear, confusion, all surged up.
To be honest, this speed completely overturned my worldview.
I used to think that making money meant working overtime, building up experience, and waiting for promotions; now I realize that some people earn in a day what I earn in six months of hard work.
However, I soon realized that the greater the temptation in the cryptocurrency world, the deeper the pitfalls.
Making money can easily make one lose control, while losing money can bring one back to reality.
I remember a senior once told me:
"This market is not about who makes money the fastest, but about who can survive the longest."
During that time, I was refreshing candlestick charts every day; if it went up, I couldn’t sleep from excitement, and if it went down, I doubted my life.
Until one time, I went all in at a high, and the next day I was stuck—losing half a year’s salary in one day.
That night, I completely calmed down.
I started to reflect:
Do I really have a strategy, or am I just gambling?
Do I have a risk management plan?
If the market goes against me, can I still hold on?
Later, I set a few strict rules for myself:
No all-in—no matter how certain the opportunity is, the position must be well allocated.
Survive first—stopping losses is not admitting defeat, but preserving life.
Lock in profits—numbers in the account that haven’t been turned into cash are just illusions.
Don’t trade every day—if you can endure sideways markets, you can hold onto trends.
Looking back now, that month of windfall was not normal, but a test.
It tested your mindset, greed, and patience.
Some people get lost after a sudden surge; others learn to respect the market.
The cryptocurrency world is not short of stories of overnight wealth, but those who can stay are those who understand to take, stabilize, and endure.
If you have just earned an amount beyond your imagination, remember—
Don’t let the numbers cloud your mind; treat it as a starting point, not an endpoint.
Because, in the next second, the market might just let you fall from heaven back to hell.
