🧐 This might be the most sincere year-end summary you see today | 2025: Why do I say my best move this year was actually doing nothing?

Why say: less action, fewer mistakes, just stay alive—

2025 has come to an end, and I want to record what I have truly internalized this year, verbatim. It can help me cultivate myself and benefit others, so why not!?

If you have also spent a few years in the market, experienced bull and bear markets, felt euphoric, regretted, and been educated, you will likely see a bit of your own reflection in the words below.

I will write about the three bull markets I experienced, explain why I say my best move this year was doing nothing, and outline my investment direction for next year.

This might be the most sincere year-end summary related to investment you see this year!

It’s quite tiring to type all these words, so if you patiently read through and feel it helps you with a future decision, a position, or controlling your emotions, don’t forget to like and share it, or pass it on to someone you care about.

In this market, truly valuable things should never be seen by only a few people.

1️⃣ My best move this year!

At the end of the year, I inevitably get asked by many: What do you think was your best move this year? I have actually thought carefully about this question, and my best move this year was, for the most part, doing nothing!

This is not a tease; it is indeed the truth!

My first bull market,

Due to path dependence, I quickly lost the money I had earned:

What does it mean to make money quickly? Starting with 30,000, in half a year, A9.

What does it mean to lose it all quickly? From 94 to October 4th, in one month, I was back to 50,000.

If you ask me what it feels like to ride a roller coaster, I think it’s about the same!

My second bull market,

Due to various bits of information and my own mysterious confidence, I started to operate recklessly, seriously researching a dozen tracks, investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in each track, and as a result, I lost more than half of the wealth accumulated at the peak of the bull market after one roller coaster ride.

This was my third bull market,

I watched the market fluctuate, and it’s impossible to say I wasn’t tempted. When I saw $Trump creating dozens of A10s in a day, when I saw many people getting big results from airdrops; when I saw you all making hundreds of times on Binance every day; how could I remain unmoved? I was certainly tormented inside.

But every time I wanted to act, to gamble everything for a chance to win, I would think of my experiences. They would tell me, or awaken me, to realize whether I was gambling or truly understanding!

So I ultimately withdrew my outstretched hand and restless heart. Clearly, this round has been the best I’ve lived through in these years.

Of course, I know that my heart was stirred; I still couldn’t remain calm, and I still couldn’t truly understand the “essence of investment,” so I need to cultivate myself! I hope that in the next bull market, I can achieve these.

There is a vast chasm between knowing and doing!

I say: When you want to do everything, it often means you shouldn’t do anything. When you start frequently explaining why you want to buy or sell, you are actually seeking legitimacy for your emotions.

So what I do is very simple: look at the market less, explain less, and prove less. I don’t participate in short-term wins or losses; I only maintain long-term survival.

I truly understood an old adage that is extremely difficult to put into practice: In a bull market, just staying alive is a skill. Staying alive means allowing yourself to miss out, allowing others to get rich, and allowing the world to be unrelated to you.

So my biggest realization this year is not “how much did I earn,” but rather—I finally began to understand what investment really is; I finally resemble someone who can “stay at the table for the long term.”

Thus, this year, the only four words I am most satisfied with are: less action, fewer mistakes. Below are some of my specific insights:

2️⃣ 12 Sentences for Everyone (also for my future self)

I found these from my previous writings; each sentence is something I deeply engraved in my notebook after heartfelt experiences:

1) The market is not an ATM; it’s a mirror that reveals your true nature.

2) Losing less is earning: those who have small drawdowns will definitely win in the long run, so we can occasionally earn less, but we must never incur large losses.

3) Don’t fantasize about miraculous operations; true experts are “stable + replicable.”

4) I can be foolish and greedy, but never be greedy when foolish, and never be foolish when greedy.

5) Most of the time, what you earn is not the market’s money, but the reward for correcting your character flaws.

6) Don’t let position manage your emotions; let the process manage your positions.

7) You can never catch all the hot trends, but you can lose all your capital.

8) Wealth is compensation for cognition, not a reward for hard work.

9) Profit is not the end; taking it out is. Be brave to withdraw funds, and don’t fear difficulties.

10) Those who can survive several bull markets are likely to win in the end.

11) Earning is not because one is smarter, but because one is still in the game.

12) What truly determines your long-term returns is not how many opportunities you seized, but how many temptations you resisted.

3️⃣ 2026: My Investment Direction (not predicting the market, just writing “actions I can control”)

Let me put this disclaimer first: The following is my own review framework and does not constitute any investment advice.

I am only responsible for one thing: solidifying what I can control.

① Continue to adhere to the “core position + satellite position” structure

Core position: Only hold what I am willing to keep long-term and what allows me to sleep soundly. I will hold it long-term and firmly not trade.

Satellite position: Retain a portion of the position for research, event-driven opportunities, and high-odds chances; losses do not affect me at all.

Discipline: The big results earned from the satellite position should first flow back to the core position (turning the fruits of victory into a foundation).

I increasingly believe: Opportunities will always exist; what truly allows one to go far is not a tenfold return but rather that ten bets won’t hurt you.

② Only focus on 2-3 “main channels,” and observe the rest

In 2026, I will focus more on those directions that—

Have sufficient scale, clear rhythm, can be verified, and where I have an execution advantage.

No longer be led by “noise.”

Noise belongs to others; profits belong to those with discipline.

③ Treat “low-risk returns” as a long-term capability: cash flow is the foundation.

Those who cannot survive in a bear market cannot hold on in a bull market.

What stabilizes your rhythm is never high-stakes gambling, but cash flow and low-risk compounding. Therefore, I will continue to optimize my cash flow, adjusting positions when appropriate, ensuring I always have the capital to accumulate resources and seize opportunities!

Thus, I hope to be more like a “manager” in 2026: using certain actions to nurture long-term certain results.

④ Selling will become my compulsory course:

Many people lose not at the buying point but at the selling point.

Those who cannot sell will eventually give back their profits.

So in 2026, I will place more emphasis on: any opportunity taken should not be held back from selling; I need to take profits in batches and be brave to sell. Earning a little less is fine; a large drawdown is the real pain!

So firmly, the two retreat conditions of 10% and 30% declines are principles I need to continue to uphold. Treating “realization” as a skill, not as “betraying faith.” Faith does not take responsibility for your life; cash does.

4️⃣ Other things I want to say: About networking and travel!

This might be something I realized late this year, but it is extremely important.

Many of my friends may have noticed that I traveled significantly more in 2025 than before, as I indeed gained many benefits from it. Here lies the importance of building relationships and traveling!

1) Networking and information:

What is networking?

It’s not about who you know,

But how much certainty you can provide to others,

And how much uncertainty others are willing to bear for you.

This is my understanding of networking!

Many people understand investment as: researching projects, watching the market, calculating models, and making judgments. But you may not realize that what truly determines your long-term ceiling is often not what you know, but who you can connect with—where your network lies!?

Networking and information have weight.

The same piece of information, when it comes from a stranger, is completely different in value than when it comes from someone you trust and who has been repeatedly validated by the market.

So interacting offline with people from different circles can lead to cross-border opportunities, fill your knowledge gaps, and expose you to opportunities that can help you earn money quickly (though they may not seem so to others).

Those who understand will know what I’m talking about: a very realistic rule: truly good opportunities are almost never “publicly competitive”; they often exist only in a small circle, mentioned “in passing.”

For example:

The investment opportunity in Aster is considered one of the biggest investments this year.

But there are two prerequisites:

First, you need to be exposed to this opportunity; second, you need to recognize it as an opportunity. These two prerequisites depend on whether you have the network to connect you. Under the same conditions, why would others consider you? Additionally, your belief that it is an opportunity may just be a casual mention in a small circle that made you aware of the complementary relationship between Aster and Binance, prompting you to decide to invest in this venture capital.

Otherwise, under the circumstances at that time, ordinary people would have no opportunity and no courage to place bets.

This highlights the importance of networking and information, and such cases are numerous. For instance, on the morning of Trump’s coin launch, did anyone give you that information? At 4 AM on 10/11, did anyone call you to wake you up to bottom fish Weth?

Some things don’t happen for no reason; whether you can be in that circle doesn’t depend on how big your account is, but on whether others are willing to trust you, remember you, and consider you a “long-term relationship.”

Of course, if you are willing to step out, there is another hidden value: it will continuously calibrate your cognition. You will find the world is vast, and there are many experts. What you previously thought was “certainty” may just be bias from different perspectives.

This is extremely important for investment. Someone who does not engage with the real world can easily take market conditions as everything and luck as ability.

So in 2026, I will continue to go out more, and of course, I need to improve my English, allowing me to build better relationships with everyone and make more friends abroad.

Here’s a flag: In 2026, I will give a public speech in English for no less than 5 minutes;

2) The significance of travel

In 2025, I visited many places: New Zealand, South Korea, Bali, Dubai, Hong Kong, Japan, and Vietnam.

Domestically, I traveled a lot to Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Chengdu.

More often, it’s about changing the environment, meeting people, and pulling myself out of my familiar comfort zone, allowing me to see more interesting things and better stimulate us to explore ourselves and the world, as well as our relationship with the world.

After walking through it, I confirmed one thing: For investors, travel is not consumption; it’s calibration.

When you stay in one place for a long time, it’s easy to be surrounded by a single narrative: a market sentiment, a way of making money, a set of value judgments. Over time, people unconsciously take “local experience” as “world truth.”

When you truly step out, meet people from different cities, cultures, and circles, you will find that many things you firmly believe in are actually just a matter of perspective.

Especially during the two months of winter in New Zealand, in the Southern Hemisphere, watching the sea, the mountains, and the sunsets. That anxiety of “have I missed something” would repeatedly arise, but over time, I actually relaxed, and it has continued until now.

I feel that I am now more emotionally stable, largely stemming from those two months of daily conversations with myself.

Because during that time, I began to realize: much of the anxiety does not come from the risk itself, but from “being in a stimulating environment all the time.” When you step away from the market, away from social noise, away from immediate feedback on results, you will hear your own rhythm again.

You won't miss any major news if you don't look at your phone for an hour; not checking the market for a day won't make your wealth disappear; and not attending meetings for a week won't mean there are projects you can't turn down.

So during those two months, I hardly traded, but I clarified many things I couldn't understand before:

What kind of life do I want?

Why do I have to win in every round?

What kind of certainty am I willing to wait for?

In fact, investing is not about always charging at the front lines, but about having the qualification to choose to step back.

If I had to say which experience this year profoundly changed me, I would say it wasn't a sudden surge or a specific opportunity, but the slow, quiet, and undisturbed time I spent in New Zealand in July and August.

It didn't make me earn more money, but it made me steadier, calmer, and less prone to losing control in the subsequent market.

These things cannot be seen in the candlestick charts, but they will subtly change your judgments about risk, rhythm, success, and happiness.

And investment, at its core, is a collection of these judgments.

So I suggest everyone take the time to go out more, explore the world, and see the true self!

If I were to give you a piece of advice beyond trading:

Don't just practice in front of the screen; go out and walk in the real world.

Meet people, observe the sky, chat, watch, and build trust.

Many times, this itself is a form of long-term compounding.

The moment you expand your circle,

You are also expanding your future choices.

5️⃣ Conclusion: I want to say thank you to 2025:

Having said that, I still want to thank 2025. Thank you for the ups and downs, temptations, anxieties, and surprises this year brought me; and thank you for all the experiences and people over the years that have inspired me.

When I was walking by the lake in the afternoon, with the sunlight shining on the path and the lake shimmering, a sense of emotion naturally arose within me. That feeling is indescribable; it is a heartfelt gratitude towards the world, making me feel that the world is infinitely beautiful in that moment.

Thank you for all my experiences, which have made me more humble and more clear-headed.

I am increasingly certain of one thing: the end of investment is not to prove how smart I am, but to allow me to have a freer, more stable, and more dignified life. In the end, happiness is the most important; everything else is secondary!

In 2026, continue to make fewer mistakes, avoid getting too excited, take more out, and live longer, letting compounding become a friend rather than just a legend found in books.

I really like a passage from Mr. Zhu De Yong,

As a life guide for 2026,

I’ll write it down and share it with everyone:

Accept yourself

Value yourself

Maintain your own lifestyle

Engage less with people

Love those who should be loved

No longer contact those who are forced to interact

Maintain your own posture

Keep the passion for creation

Hold a disappointed attitude towards the world

Inspire through creation

Recall memories, whether good or bad

Be gentle with yourself

Be gentle with others

But keep your distance

I do not disturb others

And do not let others disturb me

Be a humble cat slave

Calmly observe the absurdity of humanity

Refuse what needs to be refused

Respect life and death

Live insignificant days and lives

Thank you for reading this far. Typing all these words has been quite tiring. If you patiently read through and feel it helps you with a future decision, a position, or controlling your emotions, don’t forget to like and share it, or pass it on to someone you care about.

Finally, I wish everyone in the new year:

Not to be a leek, not to be a gambler, but to be someone who can traverse cycles.

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