Introduction
"Study the trading methods you excel at, iterate strategies and market sense in trading, enjoy the process of investment trading, and steadfastly follow your own path."
Investment should not be a game exclusive to a few financial elites. Everyone can participate in the world's changes through investment and express their value propositions. RockFlow believes that investment is a very free activity. Everyone has their own investment philosophy, and there are no superior or inferior investment methods. Whether it's a white cat or a black cat, the one that catches mice is a good cat.
We will interview 100 top earners on the RockFlow platform, sharing their exciting investment stories and philosophies. They come from all over the world and could be post-00s college students, engineers, designers, or foreign trade practitioners. They are masters of investment trading but also ordinary people in our daily lives.
Background of this Episode:
This podcast guest is Rocker "Mysterious Pig." He is a post-95 investor who has focused on stock and cryptocurrency investments for many years. With a keen sense of the economy and market sentiment, he has developed a clear and consistent trading strategy, achieving a high success rate in the market.
Below is the condensed text version of this interview. The full audio is available on podcast platforms like Xiaoyuzhou and Ximalaya (search for RockFlow on all platforms), or scan the QR code below to listen.
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1. Iterating Strategies and Market Sense in Trading
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: Welcome to our top earner of the year, Mysterious Pig. Could you please introduce yourself briefly?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: I am a retail investor without formal investment education, now mainly focusing on investment. After graduation, I was always looking for ways to make money, trying many things but not earning much. During this process, I discovered my talent and passion for investment. Initially, I was in the Crypto field, found mining equipment popular, and started investing in cryptocurrencies, then gradually moved to stock investments.
When I started, I invested less than 100,000 yuan, experienced significant fluctuations, doubled my money, then lost 50%, doubled again, and lost it back. After these experiences, I felt frustrated and began to study market fluctuations, various trading information, and signals, trying to find patterns. Then I started short-term trading with a high success rate, growing from a few thousand yuan to 100 times, and have been trading ever since.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: So you found a trading method that suits you, made money, and decided to continue and focus on it.
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: Yes, initially, the fluctuations were tough, so I started researching. If it had been smooth from the beginning, I might not have gone deep into research and might have stopped after making a few times the money.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: I think this is great. This is a significant difference between people. You saw your shortcomings, wanted to study them thoroughly, practice, and develop a method that suits you. This is a big highlight, as many people might just scratch the surface.
Let's review your trading over this period. I see you trade meme stocks like FFIE and GME a lot, and also buy AI-related stocks like Nvidia and Tesla options. How do you choose these targets?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: This year, meme stocks are particularly popular in cryptocurrencies, and I made money from them, so I also chose meme stocks in the stock market. For Nvidia and Tesla, I wanted to try options leverage, buying these two large-cap companies. But for long-term holding, I wouldn't buy these because their market cap is too large, and making money would be relatively slow.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: You still value the potential for market cap growth.
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: Yes, I generally choose small to mid-cap companies.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: Regarding options selection, we found your success rate very high. How do you achieve this? For example, when trading FFIE and GME, what strategies do you use? Can you share?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: Initially, I didn't pay much attention to FFIE when it started rising. After it rose more than ten times, I started to focus on it. After it rose more than ten times, I felt it was rising too fast, so I watched it daily. It peaked in four days. Feeling it couldn't rise much more, I sold it on the fourth day. This mainly relied on my short-term experience in cryptocurrencies, where I traded tens of thousands of times a year, accumulating experience and market sense.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: You have a certain feel for its price movement during trading.
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: Yes, because it rose quickly, I could sense it well. If the rise was prolonged, I might not watch it daily for more than a week, and I wouldn't be as focused, making it harder to find a good selling point.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: Because you developed your trading method in other categories, and some stocks in the US market had similar rapid fluctuations that you could grasp.
You applied your accumulated trading skills well to these stocks. This is impressive. The ability to draw parallels is very important. In trading, finding similarities and reusing experience can be very efficient.
2. Bull Markets Offer Few Good Opportunities, Bear Markets Have Potential for High Returns
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: Do you balance risk and return when trading? For example, risk management of the account.
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: I generally look for opportunities in bear markets. For example, I wouldn't buy high-priced stocks in the current bull market.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: You are better at finding opportunities in bear markets, right?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: Yes, in the current bull market, I do some short-term trading but don't hold long-term.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: You have a typical trader's style. Trading requires calmness and detachment. Often, your expression is calm, like an Olympic shooter, very excellent.
You might not usually talk about your thoughts, which isn't your strength, but you keep thinking and applying. Back to the current market, it's heavily influenced by emotions, with various news and economic indicators like interest rate cuts and recession expectations. How do you stay calm and rational in the face of market fluctuations and still find trading opportunities? Do you have any special methods to avoid emotional decisions?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: This might be why I lost money recently. I didn't do well in this aspect, especially in stop-loss.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: Everyone is continuously evolving and iterating. Do you have any principles or deliberate practice methods to do better next time?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: When the price rises, don't be too confident, always have a sense of crisis.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: Remind yourself to stay cautious and rational. Your trading is relatively short-term, sometimes trading many times a day. Has it always been this way?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: Yes, I mainly make money from short-term trading. I now think it's hard to make big money in a bull market because it has already risen a lot, and the downside risk is high. I won't do long-term investments now, maybe wait for a real drop to find opportunities.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: What's your view on long-term investment and short-term trading? How do you see these two different methods?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: I think those who can do long-term investment are quite impressive. No matter how much it rises or falls, they can still hold on. Long-term investment, if viewed over several years, is better than short-term trading.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: Yes, but long-term investment might not reach 100 times in a few years, which is quite difficult. For example, you might double your money from January 1 to December 31, but if you do some trading in between, you might encounter several opportunities to triple your money.
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: I have experienced this before. I do a lot of short-term trading and often think I sold at a high point, but later it turned out to be a low point. For long-term investment, if the cost isn't like in the current bull market, I think long-term is also good.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: From what I hear, your view on long-term investment and short-term trading is that the most important thing is the timing of buying. In a bear market, starting to build positions at low prices offers more strategies, whether short-term trading or long-term investment. But if the cost is already high, you might only do short-term trading.
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: Yes, in a bull market, doing long-term trading might yield small returns, and there's a high chance of losing money, so the cost-effectiveness is low.
3. Returning to the Essence: Enjoying the Process of Investment Trading
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: Nvidia is about to release its earnings report. Do you have any research on Nvidia? Any trading considerations?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: I think Nvidia will remain a hot topic in the coming years because all major companies will engage in AI. If there's a significant pullback like in early August, it's worth buying.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: If you were to buy a stock now and hold it for at least a year, what would you choose?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: I think it's a bull market now, so I wouldn't hold any stock for a year.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: From our conversation, I find your investment system very clear. This is crucial in investment; you need to be consistent, not switching methods frequently. Once a person's overall trading strategy is consistent, they can do well because they can focus on optimizing the system's details.
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: That's true. I have been trading cryptocurrencies, experiencing several bull and bear markets, and found that making money in a bull market is too difficult. You can make money in the short term, but it's not very cost-effective in the long term.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: As a post-95, you achieved good returns through investment at a young age. People are curious about your investment philosophy and story. Besides trading US stocks, you mainly trade Crypto. What are the differences and similarities between the two? Will investors in these two fields become more cross-disciplinary in the future?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: I think the influence of US stocks is far greater than cryptocurrencies now. Cryptocurrencies don't seem as volatile as before and might become more similar to US stocks in the future. In the past, cryptocurrencies could make you rich overnight, but this will become less common. So I moved my money from cryptocurrencies to US stocks.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: Is there anyone or any book that has significantly influenced your investment trading? It could be famous people or people around you.
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: No, I have always relied on myself to explore, never watched others' explanations or books, just trading and accumulating experience on my own.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: Have any previous experiences or books unrelated to investment and trading influenced your trading? For example, a sudden realization that trading is similar to something else. Any such moments?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: No, I mainly believe in learning through practice.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: With increasing trading experience, has your trading strategy changed? How is your current strategy different from when you started?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: Initially, I wanted to get rich overnight, choosing very low market cap companies, but mostly lost a lot. Now, I don't buy large-cap companies or extremely small-cap companies. I choose mid-cap companies, which are more stable than small companies and have more growth potential than large companies.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: So, you adjusted your target selection. Looking back at your trading experience, were there any difficult moments? How did you get through them?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: Difficult times might be when I missed out, feeling bad watching it rise daily. But over time, I let it go.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: Looking back now, do you still think missing out is a serious problem? Personally, I think missing out is okay because there are always many opportunities, better than buying at the peak.
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: Yes, if you miss out, stay rational. Buying at the peak or high point is worse, so don't rush, stay calm, and wait for the next opportunity.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: Exactly, fear of missing out (FOMO) should be controlled. If you miss out, there will be other opportunities, don't get carried away.
Back to RockFlow, we have a value that everyone has their own investment method, and they should invest in a way that feels comfortable. How would you summarize your investment philosophy in one sentence?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: For me, the core investment philosophy is to find opportunities in bear markets.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: Is there any investment philosophy or trading perception that many people think is correct, but you disagree with?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: Many people follow investment gurus like Warren Buffett and large funds. I think the companies they invest in have a high chance of rising, but the growth potential is limited. Most investors don't have such large funds, so following them only yields stable returns. If you choose on your own, you might get closer to financial freedom.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: So, you still prefer to choose investment targets or stocks with more growth potential.
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: Yes, for example, Buffett, due to his large funds, buys Apple stocks, holding only a few percent of the market cap. If he invests in other companies, he might accidentally hold 50%, so they need to invest in giants, which mainly provide stable returns.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: Yes, how do you find these small to mid-cap companies with growth potential of ten to a hundred times? How can ordinary people find such companies?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: Personally, for example, Nvidia is very popular now. AMD and Intel are also doing AI. I would choose companies in popular sectors that haven't risen much yet, as they might still have opportunities.
4. Following Your Heart: Steadfastly Following Your Own Path
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: Do you have any hobbies in your daily life?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: Playing games. When I feel bad from investing, I play games.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: Do you think playing games and trading have similarities?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: I think playing games is quite similar to trading. When I started trading, I didn't understand it, but treated it like playing a game. Gradually, I developed a feel for it.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: There are indeed similarities between the two. We discussed whether other activities inspire your investment. Do you get any trading insights from playing games?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: Mainly the mindset. Treat trading like playing a game, which might be better.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: Treating it like a game reduces the emotional fluctuations and pressure. This is very good.
Next question, what do you think are the good points of RockFlow? Why did you choose RockFlow as your US stock investment platform initially? What motivated you to join the Rocker community? What product features impressed you?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: Mainly the simple and convenient account opening and funding process. Compared to others, it's easier.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: What features do you find good in usage?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: The interface is easy to view, and the trading process is smooth.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: When designing this product, I believed investment shouldn't be overly complicated or make young people feel difficult and high-barrier. It shouldn't bring significant psychological pressure. We intentionally made the overall design style and interaction experience more relaxed, allowing people to enjoy the process of investment trading.
More and more young people worldwide are participating in investment, hoping to achieve financial freedom through it. Based on your experience, do you have any advice to share?
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: You need to practice personally. Many people just watch and don't practice, so they can't discover their potential in this area.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: Yes, participate and start trading.
RockFlow Top Earner - Mysterious Pig: Yes, start trading. Many people are quite smart.
RockFlow CEO - Vakee: No matter how much money, you might lose or win, but you need to participate early and develop your understanding and methods.
Author Bio:
The RockFlow research team focuses on high-quality US companies, emerging markets in Latin America and Southeast Asia, and high-potential industries like crypto and biotechnology. The core team members come from top tech companies and financial institutions like Facebook, Baidu, ByteDance, Huawei, Goldman Sachs, and CITIC Securities. Most of them graduated from top universities like MIT, UC Berkeley, NTU, Tsinghua, and Fudan.
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