$CLO Rely on salary to turn your life around? It's really too difficult these days. I figured this out more than ten years ago, so I decided to put all my chips on trading. I've taken many detours before accumulating the confidence I have today.

It's been ten years since I entered the market, and I'm in my early thirties now with a decent asset portfolio. When I travel, I budget at least 2,000 for accommodation. I'm not bragging—it's just the facts. My peers who run factories or do e-commerce don't have it nearly as comfortable.

I've seen too many market conditions—bull markets, bear markets, sharp rises, sharp falls—and I'm used to it by now. The reason I've made it this far isn't complicated: I've stuck to several ground rules. It's not about having superior technical skills; the core secret is just two words: knowing how to hide. Knowing when to lay low and when to make your move.

The most common trap is this: sharp rises followed by sluggish declines. Don't touch that. It's a typical sign of dealers accumulating positions and laying traps for you to fall into. It works the other way too—after a sharp drop comes a lackluster small rebound, and don't naively think it's a buying opportunity. Nine times out of ten, the dealers are dumping at high prices, faking a rebound to trick you into taking the baton.

Here's another detail many people overlook: when they see volume suddenly spike at the top, people panic and rush to cut losses. But that's not necessarily the peak—sometimes dealers are just taking one last wave. The real time to escape is this: the price has been at high levels for a while, but trading volume starts shrinking—that's when you need to exit quickly, or you'll be the last sucker to board the ship.

Stay calm when volume spikes at the bottom. Most of the time it's a bull trap, a fake crash. To really enter the market, you need to see several consecutive days of volume increases, and it holds up without continuing to fall—that's a real signal.

To put it plainly, cryptocurrency trading is trading emotions. The market moves entirely based on how sentiment flows, and where do you gauge sentiment? Volume. When you yourself start wanting to rush in, that price point is basically when dealers want to escape; conversely, when you're scared and want to run away, they've already laid down and are waiting to take over your position.

Cryptocurrency just cycles like this—those being liquidated are always the same types of people. People who get blown up don't lack talent; they can't control their hands. Those always dreaming of getting rich overnight and turning their lives around don't have a single one who doesn't get cleaned out by the market.

I don't think I'm particularly outstanding. But I really have been constantly improving, watching, and learning new things. Making money isn't luck—it's from repeatedly reviewing trades, stepping on the same rakes, adjusting strategies, and exploring through practice. You can't survive here for even six months if you just rely on fantasies, pump groups, and gambling on luck.

Now I run strategies with data models, with a whole set of methodologies, trading waves in the market. To be honest, cryptocurrency never lacks opportunities—what's missing is people who can truly understand those opportunities.