At 3 a.m., I was staring at a dozen screens, frantically switching between different cryptocurrencies. Back then, I thought I had cracked some kind of code, constantly digging for "insider information" in the community, studying a bunch of chaotic technical indicators, and throwing everything into any coin that might go up.

Three months later, my original 5,000 yuan capital was down to just over 1,000. It was then that I realized that thinking I was smart was often the beginning of the worst losses.

Seven years later, I finally found the real answer.

Last week, I met a fan who refused to believe my trading method. "You must have some inside information, right?" I directly showed him my trading records—no frequent trades, no chasing obscure coins, and I only used the most basic indicators on the candlestick charts. His reaction was quite interesting: "Is that all? Even a fool could do that."

Honestly, it was this seemingly "silly" simple method that allowed me to achieve an 8x return over seven years.

**The Invisible Trap in the Crypto World**

The longer you stay in this market, the clearer one fact becomes: trading frequency and profit are not directly related.

I always felt that every candlestick hid an opportunity, and I needed to operate daily. Chasing the highs and selling the lows became the norm. The result? My account was either shrinking or on the way to shrinking. Fees ate up a layer, emotional swings led to wrong decisions, cycle after cycle.

I used to try to stay "active," thinking that was what serious investors did. Later, I realized that this "busy feeling" was actually the best way to deceive oneself. The market simply doesn’t care how much you trade. Those few successful trades I once thought I had "cracked" were just market lessons in disguise, waiting to teach me a lesson in the next cycle.

Simplicity, restraint, patience. That’s the true moat of the crypto world.