A few days ago, someone in the group chat complained: Why do I keep losing money the more I look at the order book? I straightforwardly said: Because you treat charts as life-and-death suspense, and your account as your entire net worth.

The longer you stay in the crypto world, the more obvious the phenomenon becomes. Those who go all-in, once the price drops, they close their trading software; once it rises, their fingers tremble; those who are completely out of position, are always armchair strategists after the fact; instead, traders who maintain a half-position and set proper stop-losses steadily move upward, with a smile on their face all year round.

This is not some secret, but a difference in mindset. Winning without bragging, losing without blaming, not complaining about margin calls, not getting cocky when profitable, only thinking about "what's the next move," rarely dwelling on "why did I lose last time." In this state, decision quality naturally improves.

So how can one cultivate this trading mindset? My approach has three parts:

**First, don’t go all-in**. Putting all your capital into one trade turns you from a trader into a gambler. Your eyes are only praying, your body teeters on the edge of high blood pressure every day, but you produce no returns. Diversified funds are the way to survive longer.

**Second, don’t stay empty**. No position in your account means your perception of the market is blind, and both cognition and capital shrink simultaneously. The sense of participation disappears, and so do learning opportunities.

**Third, keep your position within the "comfortable pressure zone"**. My simple method—lying in bed at night, if a sudden message can wake you up, your position is just right; if you fall asleep easily, your amount is too small; if you can’t sleep, the psychological burden is too heavy. Generally, a 40%-60% position is ideal. A 10% drop makes you feel pain but not enough to smash your phone; a 20% rise makes you happy but you still keep working.

Some say this is a "lying flat" mentality? Absolutely wrong. It’s actually the most aggressive attack strategy. It forces you to focus on "how to win next" rather than "how to stop the loss from last time"—the former cultivates strategy, the latter only stirs emotions. Strategies can be replicated, emotions tend to explode.

Gamifying trading is based on this logic: repeatedly "fighting monsters and leveling up" with fixed positions, treating stop-loss as a "revive card," and reviewing each failure as a "boss fight攻略." When played to the extreme, you’ll find that the market hasn’t changed, but you’ve evolved from a "newbie" who gets cut to a systematic "studio" that works.

One last word for you: don’t treat trading as a life-and-death battle; see it as a ranking match. Climb up the ranks, and your principal is just a bonus trophy.