Turning Back is the Shore: Gold is the Light That Restores My Confidence in Trading

I once poured my heart out in the crypto world, full of emotion and expectation, always feeling that I could achieve the results I wanted here. But starting in the second half of 2025, all my enthusiasm was gradually cooled by repeated crashes.

I heavily bought Bitcoin near 98,000, happily waiting for a rebound, but what I got was one waterfall decline after another. Several times my account was on the verge of liquidation. The panic that made my heart race to my throat still haunts me. I desperately hedged to hold on, but in the end, I was trapped for a full two months, watching the charts day and night, unable to sleep.

Every time I saw a V-shaped bottom reversal, I couldn’t help but regain confidence, telling myself over and over: This time, I will definitely break even, the market is coming! But hope was ignited again and again, only to be crushed by reality each time. That sense of helplessness really eroded all my trading confidence.

It wasn’t until I completely turned around and returned to my original profession—gold—that I truly found relief. Take this morning’s two-stage reversal as an example, which vividly illustrates the gap between the two assets: at the same time this morning, Bitcoin plummeted 3.6%, crashing from around 95,500 USD to below 92,000 USD, a familiar panic sell-off; meanwhile, gold surged all the way, breaking through its historical high, jumping from a low in the morning to 4,690 USD, with an intraday increase of over 100 points, up more than 2%. This strong rally made me feel incredibly secure.

I don’t mean to criticize here; sometimes, switching tracks might bring unexpected gains. From just over 4,000, I was firmly bullish on gold, and now it’s about to hit 4,700 USD. Gold doesn’t have the big swings or unpredictable emotions of the crypto market. It’s steady, step by step, with solid growth. This real market performance is gradually healing my damaged mindset from the crypto world and has helped me regain my confidence and footing in trading.

After all the twists and turns, I realize that compared to gambling on unknown luck in the crypto space, steadily progressing in the certainty of gold is the true way of trading.