When the people in front of the screen stay up late staring at the candlestick charts, their eyes turning into panda eyes, I am leisurely flipping through a book in a coffee shop. It's not that I don't care about the market, but because I have figured out the tricks.

Last March's crash, my phone didn't stop ringing—full of screams in the group chat. "It's collapsing!" "Sell now!" "The principal has dropped by a third!" The only action I took was turning off notifications and continuing to read.

Why am I so calm? Because I had already written an emergency plan into my system. Over three years, my account has increased 70 times. But don't overthink it; it's not that I hit a hundredfold coin, but that I avoided every deadly plunge. In this market that amplifies human nature, my deepest understanding is: true winners are never the prediction experts, but their own masters.

**Who is most likely to be cut**

When I first entered the market, I was also a chasing monkey. Today, I chase DeFi, tomorrow I follow NFTs, and the day after I switch to metaverse or AI concepts. My account is like a roller coaster—exciting when it surges, but painfully thrown down when it drops.

There is a harsh statistic in this industry: 90% of long-term participants ultimately lose money. But do they fail because of technical analysis? Actually, no.

The problem lies in two words: emotions.

When the market rises, FOMO (fear of missing out) is like poison, causing people to lose rationality and chase everything. When the market falls, fear pushes people to the bottom to cut losses. I have seen countless people, including myself once, make impulsive decisions late at night when exhausted, and then their accounts are gone. But the scariest part is not even that—