After eight years of trading, my account has grown from just over $2,000 to eight figures. In the first two months of this year alone, I earned over a million dollars, settled in Shanghai, and also invested in Zhejiang. I'm not bragging, I just want to tell everyone — those who truly make money in the crypto world are never the ones rushing in the fiercest, but those who know how to stay calm and endure.

Over these eight years, I’ve stepped into countless pits and summarized some practical insights. Today, I’ll share a few of the most useful ones. One can help you lose tens of thousands less, and understanding three will basically put you ahead of over 90% of retail investors.

**Trading volume is the true heartbeat of the market**

Many people stare at the screen watching K-line charts, getting excited when prices rise and frustrated when they fall. But do you know? Price is just an appearance. The real market signals are hidden in the trading volume.

If the price is soaring wildly but the volume shrinks? That’s an illusion of high value, and it will eventually crash down. If the price is falling but the volume is huge? That indicates a large amount of funds are retreating. Only when price and volume move together is it a true trend. Breakouts without volume support are mostly false breakouts; chasing them will only get you trapped.

I didn’t understand this at first. I kept chasing the highs and selling the lows, and my account shrank several times before I realized. Later, I understood — trading volume represents real buying and selling activity, while price is just the result of that activity. Learning to combine volume and price is the real threshold.

**Sudden surge and pullback may be a rhythm of accumulation**

Seeing the price suddenly spike and then slowly retreat? When this happens, many people get nervous, thinking the trend might reverse. But that’s not necessarily the case — this is often the main force accumulating. A sharp surge is to attract retail investors to buy in, and the pullback is to wash out the hesitant chips. After repeating this process several times, the main force has accumulated all the cheap chips.