To be honest, it's embarrassing to admit, but I used to be the most panicked person in the market. Two years ago, I scraped together around 200,000 yuan (half of which I borrowed from friends) and rented a single room in an urban village, staring at the charts every day until my eyes hurt. What I dreaded most was my mom suddenly calling to ask about the money—I didn’t dare tell her that I’d put it all into the highly volatile digital asset market.

The first month or so was a nightmare. My account shrank from 200,000 to just over 120,000. Watching the candlestick charts made me nauseous, and several times I uninstalled the trading app and swore I’d quit, only to sneakily reinstall it in the middle of the night. During that time, I bought three notebooks, filling them densely with post-loss reviews, dissecting every mistake I made down to the last detail.

The turning point came unexpectedly. One day at 4 a.m., I stared at my account balance and suddenly realized something: this market isn’t a casino where you rely on luck—it’s about who can control themselves better and make fewer rookie mistakes. Surviving, in itself, is the biggest victory.

Three months later, when my account balance hit the five-figure mark, my first reaction wasn’t to go out and spend, but to clear out all the signal groups and so-called insider channels. Looking back now, those self-proclaimed “experts” I once trusted have long since disappeared.

After several years of market analysis, I’ve seen too many similar stories: newbies chasing hot trends with their living expenses, and veterans getting stuck at the top out of greed. So today, I want to share what I’ve learned over the years—eight contrarian survival rules, practical uses of the EMA indicator, and two steady position management strategies.

I can’t promise you’ll get rich, but at the very least, these can help you avoid most of the pitfalls. After all, in this space, just surviving means you’ve already beaten the vast majority.

**Rule One: Unusual performance during a crash is often a signal for opportunity**

Last year, when a major coin plunged 18% in a single day, another asset I was holding only pulled back less than 3%, and its trading volume dropped to a third of normal. Most people panic-sold at times like this, but what I saw was a clear sign of market control—someone was actively supporting the price and locking up tokens.

(Further rules to be continued...)