Recently, I’ve talked to quite a few friends about contract trading and noticed a common thread: it’s not that they don’t want to get started, but they’re afraid of making costly mistakes. Without someone to guide them, they don’t dare to jump in.

With the market being so volatile, trying to figure things out on your own is basically paying tuition. How to judge the trend, how much leverage to use, how to manage risk—if someone could just demonstrate these strategies once, it would save you months of trial and error.

The core principles are pretty simple: identify the direction and don’t fight the trend, test the waters with small positions and leave yourself an exit, calculate your liquidation price in advance, and focus on being steady and patient. It’s really not that mysterious; the key is to first understand the basic logic.