Today, let me share some casual thoughts — first on life and destiny framework (格局), then on investment in the second half. After my last article was published, I was surprised to find that the most comments came from brothers and sisters in their thirties. Many said they wished they had read this article back in their twenties, when they were just starting out. They wouldn’t have been so aimless, so reckless, or so naively trusting — and wouldn’t have given so much for things and people that were never worth it.
Among them, a large number of men sacrificed a decade or more of their youth for a career, for trust. A large number of women sacrificed a decade or more of their prime years for love, for marriage.
For loyalty, for brotherhood, for friendship — they all successfully managed to burn themselves completely, only to be drained dry by the very people they once trusted and cherished most, then spat out like dregs.
Let me say something that might not sit well: the fundamental reason most people begin their irreversible decline after thirty is that they failed to learn, in the first thirty years of their lives, a concept called “self-interest.”
Yes, you read that correctly. Although I consistently emphasize that you should conduct yourself with openness, warmth, and generosity toward others — this does not conflict with the broader principle of “self-interest.”
You see, there is something deeply cold about this world: it will certainly praise you for your contributions. But if you become a pure giver, it will shamelessly come to see all your effort as something you simply owe — and will stop treasuring or appreciating you at all.
Tell me — has your partner ever thanked you for the quiet, steady tenderness you’ve offered all these years? Has your boss ever thanked you for the grueling hours you’ve put in?
To put it plainly: when your effort becomes something others take for granted, it means you’ve made yourself cheap. Cheap in the most literal sense of the word.
This is why, in all my life consultations, I’ve always upheld one core principle: you must keep growing, and you must keep gaining. Only when others cannot fully control you — and when you no longer need to live under anyone’s thumb — will your worth, your standing, and the respect others show you naturally rise.
This isn’t about vanity or chasing a reputation. It’s about making others understand exactly what kind of person they’re dealing with when they deal with you.
You can’t be mistreated and looked down on and still think that’s normal. At the bare minimum — make others look at you with respect.
Truly, the vast majority of people in this world work this way: the more excessively humble you are, the more you will be belittled and despised. And yet, most people have very successfully made themselves smaller and smaller, until they become utterly insignificant.
On this point, the logic and strategic framework for a man’s reversal versus a woman’s reversal are entirely different.
Men need to learn “necessary ferocity.” Women need to learn “necessary cunning.”
Note: the ferocity and cunning I’m referring to are not about undermining social morality or walking the edge of the law. They’re about equipping yourself with at least the basic ability to command various kinds of “power.”
This includes using measured pressure and a fierce edge to make others feel your strength — this is a man’s “necessary ferocity.”
It also includes using shrewd leverage and strategic influence to bring others to accept your arrangements — this is a woman’s “necessary cunning.”
Only then will others grant you the respect you deserve.
Remember — we often speak of love turning to hate. But in this world, hate turning to love is equally common. Even fear turning to respect is common.
Of course, these will be two separate articles. I’ll write them both this week — as gifts of counsel for adult men and women navigating a demanding world.
Now let me turn to investment.
After just one brief day of relay trading on Friday, the broader market has once again shown clear bullish behavior today. This is good news — whether you held your position at the bottom or cleared your position to avoid risk.
This kind of movement signals one thing: the core players have made up their minds to build out the big picture. They simply don’t care about the retail-held scattered chips along the way. After all, those chip volumes — though the numbers look staggering over these past few days — are truly a drop in the ocean compared to the off-market leveraged capital at play.
This past Friday, I raised a question in my community: “Why was it that in the last bull market, off-market leveraged positions were cracked down on at the tail end — but this time, that loophole was sealed shut right at the very beginning?”
Many sharp members offered their perspectives, and the quality and depth of their thinking genuinely impressed me.
The core answer is this: this bull market will be a towering peak reaching into the clouds. It absolutely will not, as before, allow high-leverage off-market capital sitting quietly at the bottom to act as a slow leak that could drain the foundation — because if you were leveraged at 1:5 below the market right now, and you had the patience to endure and survive, then when the bull market reaches its mid-to-late stages, taking your position would sweep away enormous wealth. That outcome is simply incompatible with the grand design of this bull run.
So what should you do now?
As I’ve always said — everyone makes their own decisions. No one has the right to hand you direct instructions. At most, I can share my own thinking as a reference.
First, based on this movement and the sectors leading the charge, the core players are genuinely committed to scaling up and absorbing the base. This means that even if future volatility and corrections come, they will only be small phases within the larger game.
So my personal approach — including everything I discuss and suggest in the community — is that everyone can start getting busy with various preparatory work.
This includes actively joining the kinds of groups filled with retail amateurs and treating them as “market sentiment observation subjects.” It also includes beginning to screen for companies that haven’t yet been aggressively pumped but are industry pillars and leaders in their respective sectors.
The purpose of the first: as things progress — especially in the mid-cycle and at the tail end — you can gauge the retail crowd’s sentiment to judge when the slaughter is beginning and when it’s time to wind down.
The purpose of the second: you can begin making relatively confident and measured bets on your positioning. The reasoning is simple — in a great bull market, all sectors will eventually have their moment. In conventional terms, this is called sector rotation. Stated more clearly: once several hot sectors are fully pumped, there will always be lagging sectors with their own stories left to tell. At that point, hot money and various capital pools — having already taken profits from the earlier moves — will naturally have even greater firepower to push the next wave.
So don’t be afraid of missing out. The whole cycle has barely begun. This is nowhere near the end. Don’t rush.
Finally, let me share my thoughts for those considering joining the community.
Honestly, if you simply want to know Master Chi’s views and reflections on various things — you don’t really need to join. The articles keep coming anyway.
But if you want to use this bull market — or the bear market that follows — as an opportunity for genuine, substantial growth, then that’s worth considering.
The community won’t recommend any specific trades. But roughly every two days, it will assign mandatory homework, and the difficulty isn’t light — because the assignments require you to analyze and dissect the current situation and broader landscape, and to engage in the hard, grinding work of building real capability.
You’re not coming in to be told what to buy so you can get rich. You’re coming in to suffer. To be challenged repeatedly. To reflect, and to grow — and to become a sharp, capable instrument in your own right.
Understand this: the vast majority of people — truly the vast majority — even when given the best possible opportunity, are in what Master Chi would call a “celebrating a windfall like it’s a funeral” state. Give them both a bull and a bear market, and they will not only fail to make money — they will gain absolutely zero improvement in their understanding of the market, of the players above, or of the broader game being played.
All they walk away with is: “Oh, that one time prices surged, I caught a limit-up gain. Heh.”
That’s it. A complete waste of a heaven-sent opportunity for self-refinement.
The truth is, one limit-up gain — or ten, or fifty, or even a hundred — cannot change anyone’s life. It can only hand them a windfall along the way. And especially if they haven’t used each trial to sharpen their understanding and real capability, giving them more wealth would only harm them.
On the other hand, many people who didn’t make a single yuan in the bull market — but who endured one or two devastating, soul-crushing losses that nearly broke them — if they can reflect on those experiences systematically, they will still come out enormously ahead. What you lose here today, you can earn back elsewhere tomorrow.
That is what we are truly after.
What we want is not some modest short-term profit — but the worldview and the understanding that can harvest and create enormous wealth.