To The Moon

In 2025, more Tiger investors than ever are hitting the million-dollar mark. Through our “The Road to Million Dollars” series, we sit down with these standout traders to explore how they think, stay disciplined, and grow along the way.

At Tiger, investing isn’t just about profit and loss — it’s a journey from ambition to achievement. We hope their stories inspire others to set clear goals and turn the idea of a million dollars from a dream into something real and attainable.

This edition's featured individual is Mr. Guo, born in 1995, originally from Wuhan, and currently residing in Beijing. Between 2023 and 2024, he gradually shifted from being an explorer in the secondary market towards more professional primary market investing: he resigned in May of this year and has recently found a new role related to primary market investment. Mr. Guo views investing as a long-term practice:

Technical analysis as the entry point, fundamental analysis as the destination; leverage as a tool, quantitative methods as supplementary, with the ultimate goal of turning uncertainty into manageable rhythm and returns.

1. Background & Daily Life: Young, Active, and Finding His Rhythm in the Market

Mr. Guo is 30 years old this year. His usual hobbies include playing ball sports, gaming, and skiing, but "investing" occupies most of his time and energy. Influenced by his father, he was exposed to China stock markets early on at home, and gradually encountered US stocks while studying abroad. He started in 2017, and began truly participating in US stock trading around 2019-2020. In 2024, he resigned to focus on investing, but has recently returned to primary market investing, hoping to apply the experience accumulated in the secondary market to enhance his primary market research capabilities.

2. From Naivety to Method: The First Loss and Evolving Strategies

Mr. Guo still remembers his first Chinese-shares trade: after buying, he encountered three consecutive limit-downs—an "initiation ordeal" in May 2017. He admits he had no clear logic at the time and was "in the exploratory stage." Through practice and study, he gradually combined technical and fundamental analysis: focusing primarily on volume-price structure, with MACD, KDJ, and RSI as supplements. Building on this, he began paying attention to the long-term trends of industries and companies, forming an investment research logic of "technical entry, fundamental verification."

3. Focus Areas and Heavyweight Structure: Tech First, Alibaba & Tesla as Core Holdings

Mr. Guo primarily focuses on the technology sector, especially areas like robotics and semiconductors. His current heavy positions are mainly in $Alibaba(BABA)$ and $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ :

• $Alibaba(BABA)$: He values the rebound momentum of Chinese assets from the bottom, as well as Alibaba's fundamentals and industry position under the AI narrative. Alibaba holds a high weight in his portfolio and was the key stock that helped him achieve the million-dollar return.

• $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$: He believes Tesla is not just an EV company, but also a vehicle for its robotics and automation strategy, and its long-term logic remains intact. In the short term, he views Tesla and related sectors as swing trading opportunities.

Additionally, he engages in some short-term trades (e.g., in servers, quantum computing) and also has allocations in futures and commodities (Nasdaq futures, copper, long soybean contracts, etc.).

4. Strategies & Tools: Utilizing Leverage, Options, and Quant Methods

Mr. Guo's approach is not limited to one method; he flexibly uses tools according to market rhythm:

• Leveraged ETFs (e.g., 2x Long ABAX): Used to amplify swing trade gains. He explains, "Leveraged ETFs yield higher returns than the underlying stock during trending swings, but experience decay during sideways or down markets, so I avoid choppy periods."

• Options: He uses them but not as a routine tool, mostly entering around major events or key technical levels identified by wave theory (e.g., Fed meetings). He has also experienced the painful lesson of options liquidation.

• Futures & Quant: He was exposed to futures during graduate school and later incorporated quantitative methods into his operations. He currently primarily uses Tiger's data and quantitative platform to run strategies, incorporating stop-loss and take-profit rules.

His technical system centers on "volume-price structure," supplemented by MACD/KDJ/RSI. His trading discipline stems from judgments on trend and risk, not blind hedging or frequent position changes.

5. A Memorable Lesson: Zeroed Out Tesla "Zero-DTE" Options

Mr. Guo recalls his most unforgettable experience: buying Tesla put options expiring that day with a strike price of $1420. The stock price briefly touched $1420.98, but the options ultimately expired worthless. He didn't exercise in time at the lowest point and had to accept the loss after seeing the rebound. This experience made him pause and reflect for a full month: mindset management and risk control needed to mature faster than his technical skills.

He concluded: "That lesson made me realize that a good method must be paired with strict risk control and calm execution."

6. Market View & Position Adjustment: US Stocks High, A-Shares Have Opportunity

Mr. Guo has a clear distinction regarding current markets: He believes US stocks are generally at elevated levels, with higher risk than opportunity, but technicals haven't yet given full sell signals, so he remains cautiously bullish. For Chinese-shares, he judges they are still in the early stages of a major wave upward (currently around 4000 points, potentially expecting a move towards 4800). Therefore, recently $Alibaba(BABA)$ has gained a higher weight than $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ in his portfolio, and he will lean more towards Chinese-shares and Chinese concepts in the future.

7. The Million-Dollar Moment: A Ceremony with Human Warmth

When Mr. Guo received the "2025 Million-Dollar Milestone Trophy” sent by Tiger, he felt surprised and touched: "Tiger's gesture and this sense of ceremony is great. I didn't expect them to proactively send a trophy; it feels very humanistic and caring." But he remains pragmatic: "I didn't celebrate particularly, because this isn't the finish line, it's just the beginning." When asked which stock helped him achieve this result, he plainly said it was Alibaba and expressed sincere gratitude for this stock.

Investing hasn't just changed his asset curve; it has also changed his mindset. Mr. Guo mentioned his father's significant early influence, whose concerns prompted him to become more steady as he grew. His past habit of "overthinking" slowly dissolved through market tempering, making him more accepting of uncertainty and patient in waiting for opportunities.

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8. Advice for Beginners & A One-Sentence Summary

For beginners, Mr. Guo has straightforward advice:

"If possible, I'd suggest not trading stocks. Because people with a poor mindset can easily get hurt by the market."

He emphasizes mindset is more important than technique. Summarizing his experience in one sentence, he says: "Level your mindset, enjoy the present."🌟

💫Closing

Mr. Guo's experience is a microcosm of the rapid growth of the younger generation in the markets:

• Evolving from early technical exploration to gradually incorporating fundamental thinking;

• from using high-frequency tools to quantitative systematization;

• from the painful reflection after a liquidation to the calmness of placing a trophy of recognition on his desk

—all these elements constitute his investment rhythm. For him, investing isn't a game where one successful trial leads to mastery, but rather about combining tools, discipline, and mindset into a reproducible methodology. In the future, he will bring his secondary market experience into his primary market role, continuing to hone his abilities between research and practical application.[Heart]

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