I've been navigating the US stock market for a year. From slight losses at the beginning to a 50% loss, and then to profitability. Sharing my insights and experiences.

1. Without sufficient knowledge and judgment, do not easily go heavily into a particular stock or option. Once a major deviation occurs causing significant losses, it will greatly affect your mood. Everyone has loss aversion. Now AI is very advanced, use AI tools more to help yourself gather information, perform fundamental analysis, and valuation analysis.

2. When you lack the experience and ability to judge stocks, first learn about influential bloggers, like @Value & Investment. First, look at their posts to see if their ideas align with yours. Following them, trading while learning and progressing, is also a path. If you lack innate talent, knowing how to follow is also fine. But you must read the blogger's posts in detail, assess your own capital size, and adopt a method of following buys and sells that suits you. Grateful to @Value & Investment, my main profitable operations and improvement in mindset have come from following and learning from Brother Value.

3. Read more books and study more. In the investment process, mindset is very important. Especially when trading options, the volatility is greater. Here's a quote from "The Psychology of Money": Investment returns are not free; the real "price" to pay is not the commission fee, but volatility, fear, doubt, uncertainty, and regret. The right mindset is not to treat volatility as punishment, but as the admission fee you must pay for long-term returns. Only by correctly understanding market volatility can you make money. This quote has greatly influenced me. It's very impactful.

4. Be serious and persistent. Quoting what Brother Value said. Entering the US stock market naturally means coming here to make money. Since you want to make money, especially big money, you must be even more serious and persistent. After all, it's impossible to make money easily.

Grateful to all the bloggers and experts I've encountered in the Longbridge community. Reading your posts is learning from your experience. Grateful. I'm also a newbie of one year, a new naive investor. I advise newcomers to have a sense of awe towards the market, to correctly understand the boundaries of your own abilities. New naive investors should not easily start trading weekly options. You can open a simulation account, but not a real one. Weekly options are highly speculative. People around me who trade weekly options haven't made money.

Finally, let me talk about my own experience. It's not scary to have greed; the most frightening thing is gambling to satisfy that greed, like trading weekly options. You must correctly understand the boundaries of your own abilities. It's okay to be greedy, but it must be within your own capabilities. In the end, people can only make money within their circle of competence.