Hedging-style love
In the deep night of September, only one light remained on in the office towers of Lujiazui, Shanghai. Lin Wan stared at the bouncing K-line chart on her screen, her fingertips trembling slightly. Bitcoin had just broken below $83,000, and her long position was already sitting on an unrealized loss of over 20,000 U.
"Arenโt you going to close?" Lu Chenโs voice came through her headsetโlow, with a hint of helplessness.
"I donโt believe it will keep falling." She pressed her lips together.
"I do," he said. "My short position has doubled."
Lin Wan and Lu Chen met in a Binance futures trading group. Back then, Bitcoin was still trading in the $60,000 range, and the group would argue nonstop every day. The people going long and the people going short were like two campsโnobody could convince the other. Only the technical analysis posts Lin Wan shared always managed to quiet both sides for three minutes at a time.
Lu Chen was the first person to message her privately. He said, Your way of drawing moving averages is interesting, but thereโs a blind spot. She refused to accept it. The two of them talked from technical indicators to on-chain data, from MACD to funding rates, for three straight days and three nights.
Later they added each other on WeChat. Then, eventually, they began calling out trades to each other.
Lu Chen was a natural bear. He could always smell danger in the market at its most feverish. Lin Wan was the exact oppositeโshe was a steadfast believer in longs, convinced that every dip was an opportunity to get in. Friends said they were natural enemies, but only they knew that within this opposition there was a strange kind of harmony.
"You go long, I go short. No matter which way it moves, one of us is always making money." The first time Lu Chen said this, Lin Wan laughed. She thought it was the most romantic confession sheโd ever heard.
They really did it that way. Every time they opened a position, they always stood on opposite sides. When Lin Wan went long on BTC, Lu Chen was definitely short BTC. When Lin Wan added to her NOM position, Lu Chen stood by coldly saying, Iโve shorted this coin.
Today was no exception.
Bitcoin slid from 85,000 all the way down to 82,000, and the margin ratio of Lin Wanโs long position had already fallen to dangerous levels. Her hand hovered above the close-position button, but she kept not pressing it.
"Wan Wan, listen to me." Lu Chenโs voice suddenly turned gentle. "Close first. Wait until things stabilize before you re-enter. I wonโt run, and my short wonโt run either."
"Why donโt you try to talk me into holding on?"
"Because I donโt want to win your money." He said, "I want to win you."
Lin Wanโs eyes suddenly reddened. She pressed the close-position button, watching her floating loss turn into a realized lossโbut somehow, her heart settled.
At 2 a.m., Lu Chen appeared downstairs at her company. In his hands were two cups of coffee: one Americano, one oat latte. He knew that when she stayed up late, she only drank Americano.
"How did you end up here?"
"You said you were going to work overtime. I wasnโt at ease." He handed her the coffee. "Also, your shortโs counterparty wants to see you."
Lin Wan took the coffee, her fingertips brushing his hand. In that moment, she suddenly felt that in a world full of K-lines, funding rates, and liquidation notifications, there was someone willing to always stand on the other side of youโnot to defeat you, but no matter whether you win or lose, theyโll be there.
This is hedging-style love.
You hold the worldโs hope long; I short the worldโs bubble. Between up and down, thereโs always one of us making moneyโand thereโs always one of us losing money. But the important thing is that no matter how the market moves, when you add our accounts together, it will always be positive.
Later, Lin Wan posted a status update on the Binance Plaza. She only wrote one sentence: Thank you to the person who will always be opposite me in directionโletting me know that the optimal solution to love isnโt moving together in the same direction, but that no matter how it rises or falls, thereโs someone by your side.
Lu Chen commented below: Your long positions are closed, and my heart is still fully loaded.
That night, Bitcoin rebounded to 84,000. Lin Wan opened a long position again; Lu Chen remained short. They watched their own screens and smiled to themselves.
Outside the window, Shanghaiโs skyline glittered in the night, just like an endless K-line chart. And in some corner of this city, two traders sat across from each other at the same table, drinking from the same pot of coffee, waiting for the next dawn that belonged to them.
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