The Quiet Night Gold Crashed — and What It Taught Me About Survival
- Puii Duangtip
- 4 days ago
- 3 min read
If you don’t trade gold, you probably missed last night a gold liquidation war broke out. There were no dramatic alerts.
I had a hunch it was coming.
The signs were there.
What I didn’t know was how deep it would go.
So I decided not to trade.
I took a shower and reached for a comic before bed—the routine of someone who likes sleeping early but almost never does.
Then my mom knocked.
My dad wanted help buying MSFT (Microsoft).
The price was dropping.
I opened DIME (a trading app) and started setting limit orders— we knew we were catching knives.
And then, suddenly, gold started to fall.
Not gently. Not politely.
Just straight down—without asking how the viewer was feeling.
If you’ve lived through a crypto crash, you know this feeling.
The Memory That Never Quite Leaves
When crypto dropped nearly 60%,
I remember myself watching the graph everyday.
Hands turning cold and sweaty.
My dad told me every day to cut my losses.
I didn’t.
Instead, I closed the app and stopped opening it.
This week, the warning signs felt familiar.
That early-week FOMO tension.
Everyone just ran to gold stores to buy gold.
Plus a reminder from one facebook’s page to "Respect the ninth."
So I felt calm.
Calm, with a hint of excitement.
In my head: Here we go.
When Trading Became a Family Event
My parents, however, were not calm.
They were extremely excited.
"Buy the dip!" they said
(Yeah, the spoon snapped.)
By 10:30 p.m.
A time when our house is usually quiet,
now it sounded like a championship match.
My mom wanted to buy.
My dad wanted to buy.
The gold trading app crashed.
I opened another trading app for my mom.
I used DIME—stable, reliable, quietly superior.
I bought a small amount myself.
Not much.
Just enough to be included in family history.
The Lesson That Finally Clicked
I don’t know if this round will turn into a long-term peak. But it was fun.
And it reminded me of something I didn’t fully understand five years ago:
Back then, I bought stocks and crypto without looking back.
No system. No visibility.
Just hope and stupid confidence.
Now, I do something very different.
Before I invest, I wanted a place where I could see:
Exactly where my money goes
How much risk I’m actually taking
What happens to my portfolio if things crash, not when they go well
That mindset is what pushed me to start building my own money management system.
Why I Built My Own Money Management Sheet (Alpha testing)
When I tracked my numbers for the first time, I felt something unexpected:
Relief.
Not because I was winning.
But because I finally knew where I stood.
That clarity changed how I invest:
Growth stocks feel less emotional
Dividend ETFs feel intentional
Even trading becomes controlled, not impulsive
The sheet doesn’t make me smarter.
It makes me calmer.
And in volatile moments like last night, calm is an edge.
Survival Is a Strategy
Markets will crash again.
Gold will fall.
Stocks will dip.
Apps will freeze at the worst possible moment.
The question isn’t whether it will happen.
It’s whether you’ve built a system that lets you stay in the game.
Next time, I’ll try to time my entry better.
Because this time was one of those moments:
I knew it was coming…but I still didn’t know how to get in. And yes—the teaspoon broke.
But at least this time, I didn’t break with it.
And that, quietly, might be the real win.