Chapter 1: Walking into a Trap#Althoughit is not autumn yet, the evening in Yanbei is already a little chilly. Time flies, and the annual Zhongyuan Festival has quietly arrived. Yanbei attaches great importance to Zhongyuan Festival and Cold Clothes Festival, which is different from the customs in our northern Henan region. A few days before Zhongyuan Festival, people have been going to the cemetery to burn paper and flowers to pay tribute to their ancestors.
After the Zhongyuan Festival, the next festival is the Mid-Autumn Festival. When I think of the Mid-Autumn Festival, I always think of my family. I haven't been home since the Spring Festival. I sit alone at my desk, feeling sad. I don't know why this year, I started to have some minor problems. It may be because I just turned 35, and I am no longer young. Growing up year by year is a reality that no one can escape.
Thirty-five is an awkward age. To use the words of today's young kids, I have already entered the ranks of middle-aged uncles. At the age of thirty-five, thinking about the past ten years, I have really achieved nothing. I can't help but sigh in my heart. I have no family, no career, a typical loser. The scenes of ten years ago can't help but emerge in front of my eyes. It was also at this moment ten years ago that the gears of fate began to turn.
It was the hot summer of 2013. It had been only three years since I graduated from college. It seemed that everyone had just started in society, and the gap between them was not that big. Young people are really at an age with ideals and ambitions, and I am one of them. I am very ambitious and curious, and I always want to try different opportunities in different industries. 2013 was also the first year I said goodbye to the Beijing drift and returned to my hometown to develop. The pace of life and development in small cities are definitely much slower than my previous life in Beijing, and life began to become boring. The work in the office of the unit was relatively leisurely, and I also had plenty of spare time. At that time, I found that I could see the end of my life at a glance after I came back, and I felt an invisible pressure and suffocation. At that time, in small cities, people generally got married early. It was common to get married at the age of 20, 21, or 22, and there was also pressure to urge marriage. As for me, I had simple ideas. I thought that a real man should start a business before starting a family, which seemed very ambitious.
In this fifth-tier small city, people like me who don't have a family background seem to have a slim chance of starting a business. Moreover, I don't like to engage in industry, I am not proficient in the ways of the world, and I don't want to be bound by trivial matters. It was by chance that I stepped into an abyss that made me irretrievable, stepped into the world of futures, and became addicted to it. Because I am also a major in finance, although I have not actually operated stocks, I have read some books on macro analysis and technical analysis when I was in Beijing, so there should be no problem. Because in my memory, it seems that I read an article in 2011 or 2012, telling the story of a girl who achieved a little success in financial management by buying and selling precious metals after graduation. (Later I found out that it actually caught up with the ten-year bull market from 2001 to 2011) Then I had an idea, precious metal trading, why not stocks? Because I didn't save any savings in the three years after graduation, and the principal was too small, so I hoped to realize a small dream of mine through precious metals. At that time, the first precious metals company I came into contact with was a member unit of Tianjin Commodity Exchange. While others looked for clients through telemarketing or online sales, I was the fish that was delivered to the door on its own initiative.
