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唐华斑竹：著名KOL，区块链研究者，财经学者。 2013年开始加密货币交易，拥有丰富的交易经验，左侧交易者，风格偏稳健，注重强安全边际，坚守既定策略和纪律，追求长期稳定收益和高胜率。欢迎志同道合的朋友加入一起交流，一起成长！

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Trading genius Curtis Faith ended up homeless! Finally understood: all short-term trend trading will eventually die from a collapse of human nature The harshest reality in the investment world is hidden in the fate of Curtis Faith, author of "The Turtle Trading Rules." He was the strongest trader in the Turtle Program, started at 19, made $30 million for institutions in four years, mastering the most standard, orthodox, and practically verified trend trading system. He even wrote books teaching the world how to be mechanically disciplined, strictly cut losses, and respect risk control. But the final result: bankruptcy, penniless, heavily in debt, homeless, and destitute. Countless retail investors are still obsessed with trend trading, short-term tactics, breakout chasing, and mechanical systems. Everyone thinks: as long as the rules are perfect and discipline is strong, stable compound returns are achievable. Curtis's outcome directly overturns everyone's illusion: it's not that the system is flawed, but human nature can never perfectly execute short-term trend trading. Given enough time, a major loss is inevitable, wiping out everything. 1. The foundation of trend and short-term trading: long-term self-torment, destined to fail Turtle trading and all trend short-term tactics share the same core logic: Rely on countless small stop losses, repeated setbacks, and continuous drawdowns to capture occasional big moves. This system demands behavior that is extremely counter to human nature: Accepting a dozen or dozens of consecutive stop losses; Enduring long periods of sideways account movement and continuous shrinkage; Watching the market daily, making constant decisions, under long-term high pressure and tension; Suppressing greed, fear, and anxiety about missing out, all year round. Short-term self-discipline can hold up, one or three years can be endured. But five, ten years, or a lifetime, no one can execute perfectly. Human nature instinctively hates losses, fears repeated mistakes, envies others' huge profits, and wants to recover losses. Discipline is like a stretched string; it can hold for a while but will inevitably break over a lifetime. 2. The ultimate fate of all trend traders: one loss of control, total wipeout The scariest part of trend trading is not frequent small losses, but that as long as you live in the market, a mental collapse will eventually occur. Long-term continuous losses and self-denial will explode at some point: Start doubting the system, stop cutting losses, hold losing positions, heavily gamble, and try to recover everything in one shot. This time marks the beginning of destruction. Years of painstakingly accumulated profits from countless small stop losses can be wiped out by one big black swan event, one failure to cut losses, or one heavy bet. Curtis is the most authentic example: When supervised and constrained by a team, he was a top genius; Alone, under long-term high pressure and exhaustion, human nature completely rebelled, risk control failed entirely, and one big failure ended his career, wealth, and life. The ending of trend short-term trading is highly consistent: slow losses erode mentality, one margin call seals the fate. 3. In contrast, value investing: aligned with human nature, growing wider over time Why do value masters like Buffett, Munger, and Duan Yongping mostly live long, stay calm, have happy families, and end well? Because value investing earns money from business growth and compounding, not from volatile arbitrage. No need to trade daily, no frequent stop losses, no continuous self-torment. Make decisions a few times a year or even every few years, spend the rest of the time reading, thinking, living, and being with family. It tests patience, not fighting human nature. No continuous high pressure, no repeated setbacks, no high-frequency anxiety. It allows short-term floating losses, market fluctuations, and doesn't require proving correctness every moment. Therefore, value investors rarely face one-time destruction; the longer the term, the steadier and wealthier they become. 4. The ultimate truth: the biggest investment risk is never the system, but human nature The market irony is: The hardest to execute, most counter-human, and ultimately zeroing short-term trend trading is what everyone rushes to learn; The simplest, most composed, and lifelong compounding value investing is what everyone finds too slow. All short-term and trend systems share the same fate: Win in the short term, endure in the mid-term, collapse in the long term. Because humans are not machines, emotions can never be completely zeroed. As long as you do trend or short-term trading, countless high-pressure decisions over a lifetime make mistakes inevitable. One big mistake can erase ten years of effort and a lifetime of accumulation. Curtis's homeless ending is the most real final warning for all who obsess over technicals and short-term trading. Slow is the protective color of life's compounding; fast is the biggest trap in the capital market.