[Red Envelope] Real Trading on the 2.5: Do gamblers really have a future? The answer must be a future of zero.

Trading in the stock market requires a rebirth opportunity after death. If you haven’t experienced ‘death,’ you can’t be reborn.

This path is not suitable for most people.

I started learning short-term trading in April 2022 and finished in December 2025.

I went through four bankruptcies; the last bankruptcy was when I had only 10W left.

In January 2024, I started trading stocks with small funds. At that time, I still had 10W, but by August 2024, I had lost it all, leaving only 5W. I withdrew 1.9W, and during the bullish market on September 24, I used my learned leading stock strategy to hit five Tianfeng limit-ups.

After the National Day holiday, I decided to turn the tide against the wind. I jumped in with over ten positions, which at that point was all I had left.

But the market didn’t allow the rise, didn’t let the bull run. From after National Day, I lost my last ten or so, and you can see from October, November, December—basically, I was wiped out.

Those three months were the darkest time of my life.

I poured everything into it, including the first year I realized my shortcomings in 2022. I learned from K-line charts, patterns, MACD, then moved to short-term emotional trading in the second half of the year, then to 1-in-2, 2-in-3, 3-in-4 strategies, and finally learned not to buy junk stocks, mastering the top-limit battle strategy. Later, when I kept losing, I met Wen Shao from the Emotional Cycle School, and in relay short-term trading, I met teachers Meng Chengxian, Tang Lili, Wang Xinling, and later, the teacher Wan Zhan Xun Dao, who is dedicated solely to selling courses. Meng Chengxian, Tang Lili, and Wang Xinling have all retired. Wan Zhan Xun Dao went viral just to sell courses and earned hundreds of millions.

The most helpful teacher for me was Wen Shao.

He helped me most with my enlightenment.

Over four years, I kept taking notes. I filled two full notebooks.

Then I did reviews and retrospectives.

I persisted for four years, trading every single day.

And I kept thinking.

By 2024, I realized that any strategy or knowledge must be simplified. Another very serious issue is mindset.

I found that human nature is complex and ever-changing.

People are happy when they make money, furious when they lose.

People can act beast-like in their greed and rage over profits.

People can do surprising, unbelievable abnormal behaviors for利益.

Because we are all human, everyone’s mindset and emotions are basically similar, but personality is shaped by growing environment, society, education, and experiences—what you’ve gone through from childhood to now.

For example, kids raised in big cities haven’t seen pigs run.

Personality depends on your trading style.

A change in mindset is a process from quantitative to qualitative change. When that happens depends on how ruthless you are with yourself.

It depends on how hard you work to learn and improve.

It depends on your focus and the level of your mentor.

Self-discipline first, then good luck and benefactors will follow.

Improve yourself, and your circle will expand.

With more people around, especially talented ones, your luck will grow stronger.

As for when you can step out, only time can tell.

If you can do it, it’s about self-improvement, self-summary, self-reflection, and self-examination.

If you can’t do it well, ask yourself: can I do this? Is this path right for me?

Yes, you need to put in a lot of effort and energy.
No, close your account; a stable job is also very good.

Trading stocks requires passion—an obsessive passion. If you love an industry, you’ll invest your whole heart to do well. Sometimes failure is due to fate; sometimes it’s because you haven’t truly tried.

When you love it, you’ll think about everything—indices, sectors, individual stocks, timing, strategies, techniques.

Only love gives you a future.

Speaking of stability, during my fourth bankruptcy, I was truly terrified. My son was born in December last year.

I looked at my son and wife, thought of my parents, and silently cried again.

Having a sense of responsibility is what brings luck.

You can give up the stock market, but you can’t give up your family.

In December, I watched my account continuously lose money for four years. I deeply reflected—I had no problem with my knowledge because I studied for four years. What I lacked was mindset. The core issue was human nature—chasing gains and selling in panic.

My real business was also stable. I even took part-time jobs to pay the mortgage.

Currently, I have three ➕ full-time dad jobs, four jobs in total.

Never forget your original purpose in trading: it’s not gambling but to improve your quality of life.

Trading is about making money, satisfying desires, and increasing family happiness.

Not about plunging into despair.

Always remember your original intention. When trading makes you numb, destroys your family, and affects your work, you should think rationally and deeply about quitting.

Any industry is meant to make life better for yourself and your family. Think about which industry can give you stability.

In summary, every industry has top performers. To succeed, you must work a hundred times harder.

In society, in the workplace, in your family, everywhere—know yourself deeply, reflect, examine, improve, and strive for your family.

Work hard to live stably, live in the present.

Don’t forget, the original purpose of trading stocks is to make money.

And when you realize trading has harmed you, consider more stable industries.

Looking back over these four days, starting in February, the core of my reasoning was correct every day.

But my personality’s response to market rotations was weak. It was a rotating market, and I had a very detailed review plan.

Every time the market opened, another part of my personality would say, “Oh, the opening is so volatile, wait a bit longer, maybe I can earn more.” Emotions would take over, and I’d ignore the objective understanding of the market.

So I would get carried away, look at my profits and losses, and forget the plan I should have followed.

The understanding of key points should be about high selling and low buying.

From Monday to Thursday, over ten days, I should have sold high during the rise and made thousands of yuan profit. But human nature is like this—greed is too strong, especially greed for a single position, which easily leads to emotional trading.

When stocks fall sharply, if you focus too much on money and profits, emotions dominate.

So when stocks drop from a high profit, and the losses get smaller or turn green, you get overly excited or panicked, leading to chasing the market and selling at the bottom.

This behavior is driven by personality and emotions.

Today, the index opened very low, and sectors were in a retracement and recovery phase. The core idea was that if the sector is recovering, it should be a stretch, not chasing the rise.

But driven by emotions, I made irrational decisions—chasing the rise, selling at the bottom.

Because my account was green, I was more prone to irrational actions.

When someone loses their mind, they are out of control.

In that state, you should think about reversing positions or staying out, but I still did what I knew was wrong—chasing and selling.

This behavior is uncontrolled, driven by primitive instincts.

Today I suffered a big loss. I knew countless times that this behavior was wrong, but I couldn’t control it.

Sometimes I feel I am really not suited for this market.

After four years of effort, my emotional and mindset control is still unstable.

That’s very frustrating for me. I often question myself: Why am I trading stocks? Isn’t it just to make money?

I should be relatively stable this year—only focusing on core stocks—but… sigh… it’s hard to put into words.

I always know where my problem lies. I keep trying to overcome it, or change, or fight my emotions, or stop watching the market. But as long as emotions are unstable, I will always be thinking about that stock, like an addict or smoker. Once you start smoking, it’s a lifetime struggle to quit. Quitting smoking is very hard—that’s the idea. It’s your mind, your thoughts, your actions—constantly there. Unless you have something else to divert your emotions, or a way to focus your attention elsewhere, it’s very hard to control.

Today I was again foolish—three days in a row. Out of five days in a week, I was foolish for three.

How can I overcome and control my emotions? Is there any way to save me? I really lack this emotional resistance.

I think I know where my problem is, but I just want to not care too much about the account, but focus excessively on key points, objectively view the market, and immediately execute—like during a retracement, a breakout, or a core recovery stretch—selling immediately without losing money, then reversing or staying out.

Is there a way to do it like this? During the main upward phase or recovery, I’ve thought about a method—never watching the market all day.

But during rotation or retracement phases, when my stocks have a good recovery and stretch, how do I stop this action and shift my attention? It’s really difficult.

Every time, human nature and emotions dominate, causing me to ignore the objective market and act emotionally.

Help @股海贼王. Bro, do you have time? Can you teach me?