#美SEC促进加密资产创新监管框架 Recently, a friend asked me for investment advice, and I said something that might sting: in the market, the operations that feel comfortable to you are wrong eight or nine times out of ten. The decisions that actually make money are often counterintuitive.

This isn’t just empty talk. Back in 2015, I entered the space with 5,000 yuan, money I had saved during college from doing odd jobs like Taobao affiliate marketing, app promotion, and package forwarding. After graduation, while my classmates were preparing for civil service exams and buying houses, I wandered off to Kunming and Dali, driven by a determination—I had to change my fate through investing.

When I first got in, I thought BTC was too expensive, so I focused on ETH and a few altcoins that looked promising. Not much capital? I used leverage and managed my positions carefully. When the market was bad, I’d experiment with small positions and treat the losses as tuition; when a trend emerged, I’d go all in and ride the wave for big gains. With this simple approach, I turned 5,000 into 800,000 over a few years.$BTC $ZEN

But what really opened my eyes was a “textbook-level” mistake.

At the time, my portfolio was split: BTC was up 30%, ETH was down 30%. Guess what my first reaction was? Sell BTC to lock in profits and buy more ETH to average down. Sounds pretty safe, right?

The result? BTC kept going up, ETH kept dropping. I paid real money to learn a lesson—the strong get stronger, the weak get weaker. The market won’t give you a chance just because you “want to break even.”

After that, I forced myself to make an adjustment that went against my instincts: cut the weak coins and add to the strong ones. It was really hard at first, but after doing it a few times, I found that long-term returns were much better than stubbornly holding onto losing positions.

To be honest, crypto might be the most direct way for ordinary people to turn things around. If you can’t make up your mind in the face of opportunities like this, there’s even less hope elsewhere. I want to bring a few people along now—not for any other reason, just so someone can pay less tuition and take fewer wrong turns.