Today, I want to talk not about making money itself, but about how a person can step by step climb out of despair.

Many people see my current life: staying in a hotel that costs five thousand yuan a night on business trips, with accounts jumping by thousands or tens of thousands of dollars every day. But no one knows what it was like eight years ago. I was tortured by debt collection calls from the bank, losing sleep all night, with over 5 million yuan in debt on my account, and all my credit cards maxed out. My wife was pregnant and doing prenatal checkups, and I had to scrape together every penny I had.

The first real investment I made was only 3,000U. To be honest, that wasn’t my principal; it was a lifeline.

I stared at the market chart, my eyes bloodshot and painful. The candlestick chart at 3 a.m. could make my heartbeat race to my throat. My motivation wasn’t to get rich overnight, but to avoid returning to the days when I couldn’t even pay rent.

Later, I realized something that changed everything: making money isn’t about rushing, it’s about stability. During that time, I kept telling myself one thing every day — no greed, no panic, with rhythm. If you survive, you win.

I set some ironclad rules for myself:

No matter how hot the market is, plan your exit in advance. When the market is uncertain, it’s better to sleep than to add positions recklessly. Use only 3% of your capital per trade, and if you lose, cut it immediately without hesitation, never hold on stubbornly.

I’m not a god, just someone who’s more afraid of death than others, afraid of falling back into debt again, so I am more disciplined than anyone.

The clearest memory I have is the bottom of the bear market in 2022. I had quietly accumulated an obscure public chain token, even the people in the group mocked me for picking up trash at that time. I held on for half a year like that, enduring loneliness alone. Later, when it rose from 0.09 to nearly 20 times that value, I sat in front of my computer without saying a word, silently deleting all those debt-collection messages from back then. At that moment, I was certain: I had turned my fate around.

Until now, the phrase I most often say is: there are many opportunities in the crypto world, but the right direction and rhythm really depend on following the right people. Some people blow up ten times before they realize, while others double their money in two months by following the right strategy. The difference isn’t IQ; it’s whether someone can help you avoid those pitfalls.

Sometimes I also think, if three years ago there had been someone like me to guide me, maybe I would have already made it out. Now I share this experience in hopes of inspiring those who are willing to listen.