At two in the morning, his message was filled with despair: $BTC

"Teacher, the 18000U heavily leveraged contract has blown up, leaving only 1500U, this is all my savings, I really have no way out." $pippin

I didn't rush him to recover his losses, only taught him three iron rules: $ETH

1. When opening a position, the loss on the base position must not exceed 5%. For a 1500U position, if the loss exceeds 75U, immediately stop loss;

2. Only wait for the pattern to confirm before adding positions, mainstream coins retrace to key support levels and stabilize with volume before adding small positions;

3. Only catch clear trends when adding positions, act only when breaking previous highs and with follow-up volume; at this point, it's only about making money without losses, just about how much you make.

He held onto his last glimmer of hope and followed the rules:

In the first month, he steadily rolled 1500U to 2700U;

In the second month, he found the right rhythm, relying on a few solid add-ons, it surged to 6800U;

In the third month, when ETH experienced a one-sided market, he held his position according to the strategy, and when the market closed, his account surged to 42000U—from 1500U to 42000U, multiplying 28 times in three months, not only recovering the 18000U loss but also making an extra 24000U.

That day he was so excited that he sent several voice messages: "It turns out it’s not the market that scams people; it’s that I never calculated how much I lost before, always thinking of heavily leveraging and gambling once!"

In fact, this was not luck. Starting with 1500U, every trade he made was controllable risk, he didn't blindly buy the dip when adding positions, and he only caught confirmed trends, gradually accumulating profits that eventually cashed out when the market came.

Recently, I've seen many posts in the square: "Another liquidation" "The market is harvesting retail investors", filled with negativity.

I recalled his initial predicament with 1500U and understood that not everyone can maintain this "certainty"—some can lose everything with hundreds of thousands of U, while others can steadily recover and double with 1500U; the core lies in whether one is willing to let go of luck.

So I rarely take the initiative to preach; the path of trading is ultimately a survivor's game.

The story of going from 1500U to 42000U is not to prove that "one can get rich quick" but to illustrate:

The crypto world is never short of opportunities; what it lacks are those who can maintain risk and accept making money slowly right from 1500U.

Those destined to understand will naturally get it; those who are not, no matter how much you teach, will repeat the mistakes of "heavily leveraging and gambling once." @juice13