Friends, I want to be honest about an observation: many people treat the crypto world as a casino, but in reality, it’s more like a place of cultivation. The competition has never been about who makes money the fastest, but who can survive the longest.

Last year, I had a student who started with 1500U. In four months, it grew to 19,000, and in half a year, it surged to 35,000. Someone asked me if he was incredibly lucky, and I shook my head—I know very well that it was entirely because he treated the three ironclad rules as a religion.

**First: Positioning is the prerequisite for survival**

How to use 1500U? He divided it into three parts, 500U each. One 500U is used for intraday trading, only touching Bitcoin and Ethereum, and immediately cashing out profits once a 3% fluctuation is reached; another 500U is for mid-term swing trading, patiently waiting for weekly-level opportunities; the last 500U remains idle at all times, which we call the "lifeline."

I’ve seen too many people not believe in this approach, treating their account as a whole, going all-in on one direction. As a result, when the market pulls back, they are wiped out instantly. Those who survive are the ones who leave themselves a way out.

**Second: Follow the trend, don’t fight the market**

80% of the market time is oscillation. Frequent trading is like working for the exchange for free—every commission is your blood. The real logic is cruel: don’t enter until a breakout is confirmed; once you gain 10%, cut half of your position.

The secret of experts is actually very simple—they spend a lot of time waiting. Like a cheetah, 90% of the time is spent observing, only striking when the prey is absolutely certain. This restraint is precisely the rare quality that small funds lack the most.

**Third: Use rules to silence emotions**

This is the most critical point. The maximum loss per trade is 1.5%. When reached, stop-loss must be executed, no matter how reluctant. When floating profits exceed 3%, reduce the position immediately—never let the account go from winning to losing. There’s also a life-and-death line: never add to a losing position to average down; this is the common cause of 90% of margin calls.

In these ten years, I’ve seen all long-term stable profit-makers—they share a common trait: they can lose one or two trades but cannot lose their trading rules. Once these rules are broken, they stop trading until their mindset is restored.

The harsh truth in the crypto world is—those who crave overnight riches are the ones most easily wiped out by the market. The advantage of small funds is their flexibility; the disadvantage is that they cannot withstand any reckless move. The journey from 1500U to 35,000U by that student was fundamentally about discipline crushing greed, nothing more.