#BinanceABCs In the cold morning of 2016, I watched helplessly as BTC plummeted from 8,000 yuan to 5,550 yuan.

My account was left with only 30,000 yuan, and I still had no rent paid. My friend Lao Zhou called me: "It's dropping so sharply, it's an opportunity." I trembled and transferred 20,000 yuan—this one move changed my next eight years.

Now Bitcoin has stabilized at $90,000, but I still remember those sleepless nights of losses vividly.

In the crypto world, there are no gods; every lesson learned comes at a real cost. After eight years of ups and downs, I finally see some patterns:

**Fast drops with slow rebounds? Most likely, it's the market manipulators laying out their plans. True upward trends usually follow a period of slow decline and then a sudden surge in volume.**

When UNI crashed in 2020, I used this strategy to buy in stages, and the next year, it multiplied 12 times.

The market is most afraid of only two scenarios—either too hot or too dead. In 2021, when Dogecoin was being frenzy-driven by the masses, I chose to cash out, avoiding the subsequent halving; during the half-year sideways movement of BTC in 2018, I persisted with dollar-cost averaging and eventually caught the main upward wave.

Before Lao Zhou left the market, he said something I still remember: "The crazier the market, the clearer your mind needs to be."

I keep a note next to my trading software: If you're unsure, don't act.

The crypto world is never a casino. Those who survive till the end are always those who protect their principal and control their emotions.

Eight years of experience boil down to these three bottom lines:

**Don't fear the fall; fear is that after falling, you're no longer in the game;**

**Don't be blinded by the excitement of the market; rules are what truly belong to you;**

**Don't dream of getting rich overnight—just remember to stay at the table.**

Stay alive first, and the money will come naturally. $ETH