#美联储重启降息步伐 The market never shows mercy to those who make mistakes.

There’s a brutal math problem staring you in the face—the deeper your losses, the further away a comeback becomes. This isn’t just motivational talk; it’s the truth spelled out by every single percentage in your account.

You’ve probably heard Buffett’s quote a hundred times: "Rule number one: Never lose your principal. Rule number two: Always remember rule number one." Simple and blunt, yet it cuts right to the heart of trading.

But in reality, too many people spend their days plotting how to double their money, only to forget the most basic thing—protecting their principal. What about the pros? There’s only one thing they check over and over: never let their account get wiped out or crash.

Why so persistent? Because math doesn’t lie.

Take a look at the rules of this numbers game:

**Lose 10%** → You need to earn 11% to break even
**Lose 30%** → You need to earn 43% to get back to even
**Lose 50%** → You need to earn 100% (double up) to recover
**Lose 70%** → You need to earn 233% just to stop the bleeding

See it now? The bigger your loss, the more the recovery multiplies in a nonlinear way. That’s why so many people get stuck in the mire of being locked in, and the more they struggle, the deeper they sink.

When your account is cut in half, it’s like "half your life is gone." If you’re down to just 30% of your principal, you’re basically waiting for the "final ultimatum." Small losses can be reversed, but big losses? There’s no coming back.

How long you survive in the market all depends on whether you know when to hit the "pause button" in time.

There are many ways to approach stop-loss strategies—technical stop-loss, psychological stop-loss, percentage stop-loss, time-based stop-loss… people use all kinds. But no matter which one you choose, you have to integrate it into your own trading system and rhythm—blindly copying someone else’s approach rarely works.

You can make a lot of mistakes in trading, but you can never let a single mistake knock you out of the game. Those traders who never use stop-loss? They have no future in this market.

Instead of asking "when will it rebound" every day, ask yourself, "Where’s my stop-loss set?" The former is passive waiting; the latter is active control.

Hope you can walk more steadily and confidently in the market.