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title: "After a year of investing, having experienced both peaks and troughs, I'm grateful to the Longbridge experts for helping me break even."
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description: "In March 2025, I went to Hong Kong to open an account, planning to buy Xiaomi stock. After experiencing a sharp drop in April, it kept rising all the way. Watching the profit numbers continuously increase, I started to get overconfident and kept buying as it went up. The peak period should have been July to September. With the release of YU7, the stock and the comment section were filled with high spirits, all talking about reaching 80, 100, 120 by year-end, Xiaomi going global.... Good news was everywhere, completely ignoring the impact of some negative news. From then on, a hellish decline began. When it reached 50, the comment section was still positive, all hoping for a rebound. The colder it got, the more it fell. I cut my losses at 36, losing 80% of my principal..."
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# After a year of investing, having experienced both peaks and troughs, I'm grateful to the Longbridge experts for helping me break even.

In March 2025, I went to Hong Kong to open an account, planning to buy Xiaomi stock. After experiencing the big drop in April, it kept rising all the way. Watching the profit numbers keep increasing, I started to get overconfident and kept buying as it went up.

  
The peak period should have been July to September. With the release of YU7, the stock and the comment section were both in high spirits, all talking about year-end targets of 80, 100, 120, Xiaomi going global.... Good news was everywhere, completely ignoring the impact of some negative news.

From then on, the hellish decline began. When it reached 50, the comment section was still positive, all hoping for a rebound. The colder it got, the more it fell. I cut my losses at 36, losing 80% of my principal. I don't know how to describe my mood at the time. I reflected a lot. The stock market requires independent thinking. Following the crowd will only make you a naive investor. It's not that Xiaomi can't make money, but it's too hard for beginners to get the timing right. I'll write some thoughts on this later when I have time. This post is mainly to thank the big shots at Longbridge.

The most, most, most, most thanks go to "Mr. Z from Beijing". If you ever start a paid knowledge course, I'll definitely sign up. I started following you at the beginning of the year, reading your weekly reports and articles, and noticed the storage sector and the later light. At that time, I only had 20% of my capital left, so I started very cautiously. I bought several companies that all had gains: BE, SanDisk, Micron. Later, I slowly became convinced. After experiencing several pullbacks, I believed AI was the main track. I finally broke even in the last few days. I don't know what to say. I'm really grateful to Mr. Z. Also, the "lie flat portfolio" I recommended to my friends is also making money. Meeting you is my luck. A god-like man.

After getting back to the starting point, I'll be steady and solid, not touching Chinese concept stocks, buying good companies, holding on tight, sleeping well, and buying good tickets.

@Mr. Z from Beijing

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## Comments (67)

- **加速上涨＝行情结束 · 2026-06-25T15:36:28.000Z · 👍 1**: Here to learn, thanks for sharing.
- **半山外賣仔 · 2026-06-25T13:22:29.000Z · 👍 1**: The name is good, a smooth and rapid rise to success.
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T13:23:42.000Z): I've repented, and from now on, I'll take each step firmly and steadily upward.
- **你是彭于晏那我是谁 · 2026-06-25T13:13:28.000Z · 👍 1**: Bro, I'm still holding on stubbornly. Where did you see those weekly report news? I have nothing to say about Xiaomi. I really bought at the peak and I'm also looking for an opportunity to break even.
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T13:21:40.000Z): I follow Mr. Z, Value Brother, and Bird Uncle, hoping this helps you.
  - **你是彭于晏那我是谁** (2026-06-25T13:23:23.000Z): 🤜
- **nnnnhai · 2026-06-25T11:09:17.000Z · 👍 2**: Keep it up! I'm the opposite of you. I've been living the good life from the very start and should have doubled my investment by now. Starting from last November, I bought Micron at $180, sold it later for over $300, and then embraced SanDisk!
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T11:29:50.000Z): Hey, let's work hard together and get a bit of your gains 😆
  - **nnnnhai** (2026-06-25T11:35:33.000Z): Believe the boss, I really can't make money in the A-share market... Changan Automobile, it took a year just to break even. Sigh.
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T11:38:02.000Z): Believe in and hold firmly
- **自来也 · 2026-06-25T10:41:43.000Z · 👍 2**: Come on
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T10:52:18.000Z): Let's go all out together
- **日积月累的金灿灿 · 2026-06-25T10:30:13.000Z · 👍 2**: Stagnant market, -70% and still able to come back
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T10:52:42.000Z): -79.8😆
- **飞行的兔子 · 2026-06-25T10:29:17.000Z · 👍 1**: Last year, I was trading options and had a short position at 4.9. In the second half of the year, I switched to big-cap stocks, and at one point, my principal was down to just 30%. Now I'm slightly in profit, all thanks to storage.
  - **飞行的兔子** (2026-06-25T10:29:56.000Z): Thanks to Mr. Z@京城Z先生
  - **京城Z先生** (2026-06-25T10:49:55.000Z): Going all in is never a good strategy after all.
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T10:53:05.000Z): Awesome, common prosperity😆
- **李大霄 · 2026-06-25T10:08:00.000Z · 👍 1**: Same here, I wanted to buy Xiaomi, but ended up not buying it 😄
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T10:09:09.000Z): Lucky👍👍👍
  - **李大霄** (2026-06-25T10:11:02.000Z): There were a lot of golden opportunities back then, around April 7th or 8th, when Trump launched the tariff war, and SanDisk was around 27 😄
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T10:21:48.000Z): That's right, that's right, buying and holding back then made a killing.
- **会弹琴的小学生 · 2026-06-25T10:02:57.000Z · 👍 2**: I also opened an account in March.
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T10:08:44.000Z): Learning from you🙏
- **卢氏一族 · 2026-06-25T09:51:30.000Z · 👍 1**: I also want to be like you. In the end, I found that it was because I bought randomly that I lost money. Following the expert, everything tastes great! Use the profits from following the expert to subsidize my own purchases! I'm numb. For example, even after the Zijin expert has exited, it's still l
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T09:53:54.000Z): You really need to control yourself. Randomly buying and selling is especially easy to incur losses. After clearing my position in Xiaomi, I randomly bought Pinduoduo, Trip.com, and Aluminum Corporati
- **——- · 2026-06-25T09:48:52.000Z**: I got ankle-deep slashed before even experiencing the peak. 😵‍💫
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T09:52:23.000Z): Also buying Chinese concept stocks?
  - **——-** (2026-06-25T09:58:08.000Z): Yes, there are also U.S. stocks with poor fundamentals, like MSTR.
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T09:59:46.000Z): You have to judge this for yourself. Read more articles from the big shots, they're useful.
- **销户前梭哈最后一舞 · 2026-06-25T09:41:27.000Z · 👍 1**: I'm still getting beaten up on Google, NVIDIA, Nokia, Marvell. Is it because I bought at the peak and panic-fired all my bullets on the 12th?
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T09:51:57.000Z): Opportunity is also very important. I was a bit lucky and caught the big drop in April.
  - **RichardTong** (2026-06-26T07:25:51.000Z): All are good stocks, no need to panic, it just depends on whether you have the patience.
- **滴滴答答就 · 2026-06-25T09:34:51.000Z · 👍 2**: I'd rather die than touch China concept stocks.
- **顺利资本 · 2026-06-25T09:31:05.000Z · 👍 1**: Congratulations! I was in a similar situation as you. I opened an account in Hong Kong in January 2025 to buy Xiaomi, and ended up losing 90k on Xiaomi. Later, I lost some more in other places. My 350k principal shrank to only about 90k. I originally thought I'd just lose it all and quit. Luckily, I
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T09:33:16.000Z): The most difficult and trying days are over. Steady progress will get us to 35,000 soon. Keep going, keep going, keep going. Having been through the bottom, the future ahead is all smooth sailing.
  - **顺利资本** (2026-06-25T09:34:53.000Z): Thanks 🙏 Let's encourage each other.
- **卖飞永赚稳住慢慢变富 · 2026-06-25T09:21:05.000Z · 👍 2**: I want to break even too. But it's not easy to trust others, I didn't even buy Z-lao's stocks.
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T09:22:59.000Z): Z Lao, Value Ge, and Niao Ge are all big shots. You can start with a small position to observe, and waiting for an opportunity is also crucial. I waited until that wave in April, which was also good l
  - **丁淞泊** (2026-06-25T09:41:20.000Z): Are you a bit stubborn? The kind of person who doesn't listen to advice.
  - **nnnnhai** (2026-06-25T11:09:51.000Z): Respect others' fate
- **卖飞永赚稳住慢慢变富 · 2026-06-25T09:19:34.000Z · 👍 1**: Still no independent thinking, huh. Independent thinking is too difficult. How to build a trading system.
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T09:20:45.000Z): You can only learn slowly; no one is a genius, it all depends on accumulation over time.
- **日富如潮年富似海 · 2026-06-25T09:18:14.000Z · 👍 1**: That's indeed a huge pitfall, congratulations～
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T09:20:00.000Z): Thanks, thanks. We all need to make money later on.
- **oooh · 2026-06-25T09:13:14.000Z · 👍 1**: Congratulations on breaking even and starting to make money!
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T09:14:26.000Z): Thank you, thank you. Steady and sure.
- **海龍王彼得 · 2026-06-25T09:09:57.000Z · 👍 5**: It's pretty amazing that it can come back even after an 80% drawdown.
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T09:11:28.000Z): It's all pain😖
  - **海龍王彼得** (2026-06-25T09:13:12.000Z): If you can break even after an 80% drawdown, that means you need to make nearly 400% in profit. Your future will only be better🤪
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T09:13:52.000Z): Only seeking steady and solid progress
- **日富一日. · 2026-06-25T09:08:06.000Z · 👍 1**: Congratulations, are they all common stocks?
  - **平步青云** (2026-06-25T09:11:00.000Z): I don't have a 2x long position on Micron, all the others are regular shares. I want to sell Micron and switch to regular shares, then wait for SK Hynix. I'm done with leverage.