In the brutal market, it's never the smartest who survive, but the most disciplined.

A Canadian Chinese girl, Pickle Cat, who started high-risk trading on social media at the age of 12, has spent over a decade proving this true with real money. This self-deprecating "red pill" post-00s trader is now a regular on major exchanges' contract profit rankings—going from a 3 million account wipeout to a net worth surpassing nine figures, with her asset management scale exceeding $20 million.

But how many pitfalls has she stepped into along the way?

Initially, she was fascinated by high-frequency trading, but her PNL fluctuated like a roller coaster, and she often lost all her profits in a single move. The "3m" scam in 2016 nearly bankrupted her, wiping out her BTC holdings—this failure caused her to miss the historic surge of 2017. She later said, "If I hadn't been so impulsive back then and had more patience, I could have caught the craziest year of BTC."

From 2018 to 2019, she experienced account amplification, liquidation, and zeroing out repeatedly. At her lowest point, she even had to sell her computer to support herself.

But what makes Pickle Cat special is this—she didn't choose to avoid failure; instead, she treated each liquidation as a paid lesson. After experiencing several heavy blows from black swan events, she truly understood what it means to "survive to make money."