A few days ago, a friend asked in the group: Why do I pay more and more attention to the market charts, but my account keeps shrinking?

My answer is: because you see the candlestick chart as an emergency ECG, and treat your holdings as the entire gamble of your life.

After staying in this circle long enough, you'll see all kinds of human nature: people who go all-in and then close the software to calm down after a fall; those who get nervous and tremble at their fingers at the slightest rebound; people without coins who start to feel anxious and insomnia if they don't refresh the market for three days, often banging the table and regretting missing that surge; but those who stick to "moderate holdings plus stop-loss"—they stay calm every day, and their account charts keep steadily climbing.

This is not some mysticism or motivational speech. Ultimately, it’s about treating trading as a repeatable game: win and quietly continue; lose and don’t blame the heavens or the earth; withstand liquidation without collapsing, and don’t inflate when making profits. Your mind is always thinking, "How to adjust the strategy for this round," and you don’t bother with "Why did I lose last round"—that’s just sadness.

Embedding this game mentality into your trading system is actually very simple, just three key points:

**First, never go all-in**

One big gamble turns you from a rational investor into a gambler. Your eyes are only left with two words: prayer. But prayer never brings real profits; it only adds chips to your blood pressure.

**Second, don’t completely hold cash**

If you have zero in your account, your ability to perceive market trends drops to zero. Missing out during a bull market isn’t known, and when a bear market arrives, you’re just watching the fun on the sidelines. Your cognition shrinks, and your principal shrinks too.

**Third, position size must be at the "subtle pressure" level**

My own trick is: lying in bed at night, suddenly receiving an unexpected message that can wake you up instantly—that indicates your position is just right. If you sleep especially soundly with no reaction? It means your holdings are too light, lacking motivation. If you toss and turn all night with insomnia? That’s a sign your position is too heavy to bear.

I personally keep my position between 40% and 60%. During a dip, of course, I feel distressed, but I won’t impulsively smash the position to stop loss; during a rise, I’m happy but not foolish enough to resign and go all-in. When I check the market in the morning, I won’t be scared off by those sharp spikes on the 15-minute charts.

Some might say, this is just a laid-back attitude.

Wrong.

This is actually the most aggressive approach—it forces you to shift all your focus to "the winning strategy for the next round," rather than being trapped by emotions like "how to recover from the last loss." Strategies can be copied; only emotions lead people into the abyss.

Therefore, trading must follow a "gamified" path:

Use fixed positions to level up, use stop-loss as a resurrection token, and review past trades to find strategies.

Once you master these three aspects to the extreme, you’ll suddenly realize: the market is still the market, the coins are still those coins, but you have evolved from a "scalped leek" into a "strategy-based steady profit-making 'gold farming studio.'"

A parting word: don’t see trading as a life-and-death duel; treat it as a ranked game. When your rank truly improves, your principal is just a trophy you happen to earn.