A week of sharp declines, especially the two-day plunge last Thursday and Friday (damn it, I lost 520,000 in just one day on Friday, and I only found out yesterday because I didn't dare to look at my account those two days, afraid I couldn't resist being scared into selling everything by Trump like in March, then chasing the high again; not selling would have earned me a lot more). The return rate directly dropped from 345% to 200%. These past few days, gritting my teeth and holding on against Trump's inflammatory talk of starting a war, I finally managed to recover 40%, bringing the return rate back to 263%, still 80% away from the peak. But actually, counting from last Thursday when the plunge started, the system shows I've only lost 17%. My expression is a bit messy, as long as everyone can understand. Anyway, what I want to say is that going from 100 to 50 is only a 50% drop, but going from 50 back to 100 requires a 100% increase to return to the starting point because the principal is gone. This is why many ordinary people in the A-share market, a scam market, can't break even in their entire lives. Except for rich second generations who have a constant stream of money to average down and break even easily. The 'top-up method' is the easiest way to break even, hahaha.