A true story that happened around me My friend, named Chen Hua, is from Huanggang, Hubei. He was born in a rural area and started working before finishing high school. In 2015, I went to Longhua Electronics Factory in Shenzhen to weld mobile phone motherboards on the assembly line, working 12 hours a day. My monthly salary started at 3800 and later increased to around 6500. After working for six years, he saved 140000 yuan by living frugally, which can be considered as the first "adult money" in his family. His parents are looking forward to him taking it back and building a small second floor. After the 2021 Spring Festival, a young man from Northeast China shouted every day in the factory dormitory, "Hey guys, Shuha Dogecoin! Musk took off as soon as he tweeted. Chen Hua didn't believe these things at first, but watching that guy go from a monthly capital of 30000 yuan to claiming 800000 yuan (actually bragging to the sky), he was also moved. He injected 140000 times into Binance: 70000 to buy Bitcoin, 40000 to buy Ethereum, 30000 to buy various memecoins and shitcoins. From April to May 2021, his account once reached a maximum of 630000 yuan, and he bragged with his girlfriend every day that "next year, when you go back to your hometown to buy a car and a house, you don't need to screw again". As a result, on May 19th, there was a direct collapse, followed by a series of thunderstorms in LUNA, 3AC, FTX... By the end of 2022, his account only had over 7000 yuan left. My girlfriend directly broke up and said, 'This is how you will be in your life.'. During that period, Chen Hua suffered from insomnia almost every day and lost a strand of hair. He returned to the factory to continue welding boards, but he looked like he had lost his soul. In mid-2023, he completely deleted all the apps in the cryptocurrency industry and vowed, 'If I touch digital currency again, I will be a pig.'. But with the money gone, I feel unwilling. The transfer is at the end of 2023. There is a Sichuan friend named Lao Liu who is 9 years older than him in the factory. He is usually quiet and drives a second-hand Camry to work. Chen Hua curiously asked him where he could afford to buy a car. Lao Liu smiled and said that in the past two years, he has been working on "golden EA quantification". He doesn't stare at the market or guess the direction, and the computer runs automatically. At first, Xiaogang thought it was a new scam, but Lao Liu directly showed him the trading records on the MT4 backend: the net profit for the whole year of 2023 was doubled, and from 2024 to October, it had already increased by 356%. The maximum drawdown has never exceeded 12%, and there has never been a position explosion. Lao Liu said that his capital has increased from 180000 to almost 2 million now, all thanks to discipline and procedures. Chen Hua observed for half a year and saw that Lao Liu had not overturned before daring to take out the remaining 20000 yuan to test the water. He didn't directly buy Black Box EA, but learned the most basic from Lao Liu: Only produce the XAAmericaD (gold) variety Classic EA strategy using trend strategy+ATR filtering (not like Martin or Grid's risky gameplay) Strict single risk of 0.8-1.2%, daily risk not exceeding 4% Mandatory clearance or reduction of inventory before weekends/major data Review once a month, with minor parameters but no random changes In the first two months, he also suffered a loss of 21%, and his mentality almost collapsed. But he gritted his teeth, didn't use leverage, didn't have any itching, and manually intervened, pressing EA to go. Starting from the third month to recoup costs, and starting to make small profits in the fourth month. The 2024 gold bull market has been a big help (rising from over 2300 to over 2900), and his EA has taken most of the trend. Adding compound interest to the snowball, by the end of 2025, he will have earned back all the previously lost 140000 yuan and an additional 300000 yuan. At the beginning of 2026, he resigned from his job and returned to his hometown county, using the money he earned to open a mobile phone and computer repair shop, selling accessories as well. Now it's stable at around 12000 to 18000 yuan per month. Even if my parents are not in good health, they can afford to hire caregivers. My girlfriend has also reconciled (although he privately said, 'This time I picked her'). A few friends gathered a while ago, and someone started talking about "the new currency is a hundred times more expensive." Chen Hua listened for two minutes and said with a smile: You keep shuttling, I only believe in one yellow line now. I can't see other colors with my eyes anymore After speaking, he turned his phone to silent mode and continued to help the customer switch screens.