Yesterday, I came across someone claiming to be Master Fu Haitang, an expert in the pig cycle, who blew up his futures account to zero. Human nature really is the biggest enemy. I fight with myself every day. Yesterday, my account was up over 200k, but when I woke up this morning and took a quick look at the market, it was only up 20k. My first thought was that I couldn’t resist the urge to use the 60% of my account sitting idle to buy something. I saw that the new stock I set up yesterday dropped by one point, and I even thought about ignoring my established strategy and adding more to it. But then I observed my thoughts, wrote them down, and read them back to myself. That calmed me down a lot and helped me stay rational. “I dug up the seeds again because I was too eager to harvest. I always want to check if the seeds have grown, but I end up with nothing every time.” I’m going to print out this famous quote from the forum—it feels kind of ceremonial.