Those who tout the myth of getting rich quickly won't tell you how many people stare at the screen until their eyes are bloodshot in the middle of the night, only to delete all their trading records and flee the market. I almost became one of them.

From having only thirty thousand in my pocket to now having several more digits in my account, it's not due to some advanced technology, but rather a principle that is extremely simple: I remain calm when others are crazy, and I take action when the market is quiet.

I still remember that early morning in the winter of 2016 very clearly. My phone vibrated, and a market alert popped up. I stared blankly at my bank card balance—30,000, and my rent for next month was still unsettled. A friend who had been in the circle for a few years sent me a message: "It's the bottom area now, do you dare to act?"

To be honest, I felt very uncertain at that time. I couldn't understand those red and green bars on the candlestick chart at all; entering the market felt like just giving away money. He replied something I still remember to this day: "In this market, don't think about how much you can earn first; think about how to survive. A little cleverness won't last through a complete cycle."

With just this one sentence, I invested all my money. It was only later that I gradually understood that what really deceives people in this industry is not the bear market itself, but those "common sense" notions that seem particularly reasonable—like "buying the dip during a crash."