Core Position

At two in the morning, the candlesticks on the screen are still flickering. Between the red-and-green alternation, I watch that long lower wick that has just formed. My finger hovers above the mouse, and I still don’t press the button to close the position. The market is hesitating, and so am I. But I know that what’s truly terrifying isn’t this moment of hesitation—it’s that one day, when I face your silence, I will be able to press the stop-loss just as skillfully as I handle a losing position.

Someone says that if you date a trader, he may always be patient with you. After all, in this business, patience is the first lesson to survive. But they don’t know this: one of the most dangerous traits a trader has is exactly that he feels no guilt about “losing patience”—because cutting losses and setting stop-loss is the action he repeats the most every day. Stop-loss isn’t heartless; it’s discipline. It isn’t that he doesn’t love; it’s that he stays alive. And once this mechanism is switched on in a relationship, no matter how deep the attachment is, only a single second of clicking remains.

The most fascinating thing about the market is that it never keeps anyone. Look at the names that once stood on the peak—how many are still remembered today? From a new star shining to falling into obscurity, it often only takes one bearish candle. What can get you through both bull and bear markets isn’t the myth of getting rich overnight, but the people who slowly and steadily endure through each cycle. Countless people come and go here—when they lose, they curse; when they win, they laugh; and in the end, they all become passersby. What remains are only those who truly love it at their core—people who don’t just love money, but the suffocating and exhilarating dance with uncertainty, the head-in-the-mind climax when each judgment is proven right, and the moment of sudden enlightenment when, during a late-night review, they suddenly see through a certain pattern.

But it’s precisely because we wage short-term battles every day, we’ve grown used to the market’s shifting winds and changing tides, and we’ve seen too many faces that were full of swagger yesterday but leave in gloom today—so we crave, more than anyone, a kind of feeling that can carry us through cycles. The market’s cycle is measured in hours and in days. But the cycle of the human heart—I want to measure it in years, in a lifetime. I don’t want you to be my ultra-short-term trade. I don’t want you to be my swing trade. I don’t want you to appear on my stop-loss list even once. I want you—like a spot asset that will never be liquidated—quietly lying in my cold wallet. Not sold because of panic, not added because of FOMO. Just there, and it makes me feel that all the jolts in this market have meaning.

You aren’t my opposing side. I don’t need to beat you, and I don’t want to spar with you. You are my core position—the portion of assets I will never sell no matter how many times I get liquidated, how many times I experience drawdowns, how many times I doubt myself. As long as you’re here, I have the confidence to hold indefinitely. Even if the whole market is bearish. Even if liquidity dries up. Even if the candlesticks break through every support level, I will still hold tightly and refuse to let go. Because in this world full of noise and lies, you are the only position that doesn’t need me to set a stop-loss.

Never cut the position. Not because I’m greedy, but because you’re worth taking on all those fluctuations.
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