Recently, an investment case has sparked discussions in the community. The founder of a leading exchange bought 2.09 million $ASTER tokens at an average price of $0.913 in early November. As a result, the token price surged to $1.25 within an hour, then plummeted straight down, now falling to $0.79, with unrealized losses exceeding 20%.

Interestingly, this big player remained surprisingly calm in the face of being "trapped," responding simply: "I'm not a trader, I'm a long-term holder."

Why is he not worried at all? The logic behind it is quite clear. He mentioned that he was also caught in a previous coin investment, but from a long-term perspective, it’s not really an issue. More importantly, the investment institution behind him was an early incubator of this project, which is not short-term speculation but a strategic ecosystem layout.

He emphasized a phrase that hits hard: "Price is a voting machine in the short term, a weighing machine in the long term." The meaning is straightforward: he’s betting not on the price fluctuations tomorrow or next week, but on whether the project's ecosystem value can be realized in the future.

Compared to ordinary retail investors who usually react by cutting losses and selling, the strategy of large funds is to continue adding positions and wait for the story to unfold. Time often favors those with enough chips.

But there’s a very practical issue worth pondering: if you lack such informational advantages, capital size, and patience, blindly following the trend and copying others’ moves could very well make you the one stuck in a trap. In such a highly volatile market, what can ordinary investors rely on to keep going? This question might be more worth thinking through than choosing which coin to invest in.