$ZEC took him from 1500U to 20-30k U, but I deleted him from my friends——he previously followed the trend and invested in Dogecoin, losing everything in two days three times, even putting in his rent.

$LA I didn't teach him to read K-line combinations, only set three iron rules, yet four months later, his account surprisingly surged to 23k U, but in the end, I still blocked him.

$BEAT The first iron rule is "Three pots of money, live separately"

I had him split 800U into three parts: 300 for day trading, only making one trade a day, closing after a 5% gain; 300 to wait for opportunities, absolutely not entering before the support level; finally, 200 locked as "emergency funds", never to be used even if the sky falls. He initially muttered, "With this little capital, when can I make it big?" But after seeing a colleague's margin trade evaporate instantly, he finally quietly opened the interface for batch ordering.

The second rule is "Only bite the main upward trend, not chew on the choppy bones"

The market is garbage 70% of the time, so I told him to go to the gym during consolidations. Once, when ADA had been flat for a week, he asked me at midnight, "Should we ambush first?" I simply replied, "Wait for volume." The next morning, a big bullish candle broke out, and we caught an 18% rise; that’s when he understood that "staying put is ten times harder than moving around." For every profit exceeding 15%, I forced him to transfer one-third to his bank account; the numbers on the screen are far less real than the SMS notifications.

The third and most crucial rule: "Let the system control your hands." Set a 3% stop-loss for each trade, auto-liquidate at the stop-loss line; if profits exceed 8%, immediately move the stop-loss to breakeven. Once, when he was trading LTC and was 0.5% away from the stop-loss point wanting to cancel the order, I sent him a screenshot of his liquidation record from three months ago. That night, LTC plummeted 12%, and he stared at the 1% loss in his account, realizing for the first time that "cutting losses is the amulet."

But when the account broke 20k U, he got carried away. He started mingling in signal groups, mocking others for being "too timid to make big money," even using full leverage to chase MEME coins.

After his capital was halved, he sent me a long message at dawn: "If I had gone all-in back then, I would have 50k now." I flipped through the chat records, recalling his previous words, "Thank you, brother, for teaching me risk control," suddenly realizing: the market never eliminates the poor, only those who don’t follow the rules.

Before deleting him, I sent one last message: "From one thousand five hundred to twenty-three thousand, it’s not the market, it’s the rules.

Rules can keep you alive, but arrogance can bring you back to zero."

Discipline is the essence of survival.