$ZBT Four o'clock in the morning.
A brother from Hainan sent a voice message, his voice hoarse: “Li Zi, with 100,000 principal, only 2800 left, my hands have been shaking while looking at the K-line.”
$BANANA I didn’t analyze the market for him.
I directly told him: “Your skills are fine, it's just that people are breaking down. If you want to survive, you need to first reset yourself.”
He was silent: “Okay, I’ll listen to you.”
I told him to split the 2800U into three parts.
1000 for intraday: only make the safest trade each day, lock in a 3% profit.
1000 for swing trading: buy mainstream coins, play dead for half a month, only take the trend.
800 is the coffin fund: lock it in the wallet, not even if the King of Heaven comes.
He asked: “Is it necessary to split this little money?”
I replied: “The dead have no future. You have to stay at the poker table first.”
Later, I told him to delete all market software, only check the market twice a day.
The truth is: the market is chaotic 80% of the time, the more you watch the more you want to act, and once you act, you lose.
When the market is sideways, consider yourself dead; when the trend comes, you come back to life.
Swing positions only move during clear breakouts.
Once you make a 20% profit, withdraw 30% first—only what falls into the wallet is money.
The hardest step is coming.
I told him to write three rules in black and white before each trade:
1. A 2% loss must be cut, blinking counts as a loss;
2. A 4% profit, reduce the position by half, lock in profits;
3. No averaging down, no holding onto losing positions, no getting emotional.
Later he said, there was a time $ETH he almost held onto a losing position, but seeing those three rules on paper, he gritted his teeth and cut it.
After cutting, the market crashed, he was drenched in cold sweat, but for the first time felt—rules saved him.
In three months, 2800U turned into 130,000U.
Zero liquidation.
Last week he told me: “Some money has come back, but the most important thing is not this.”
“What?”
“I finally turned myself into a trading machine. Emotions can no longer kill me.”
There will always be opportunities in the crypto space, but opportunities are only for the “living.”
The standard for the living is very simple—bind your hands and feet with rules, replace fantasies with plans.
If you are still losing, don’t just ponder on techniques anymore.
First ask yourself: Have you separated your positions? Can you control your hands? Have you written that paper to lock in your emotions?
Discipline is not stimulating, but discipline can help you survive until dawn.
Survive, and wait for the wind to come.
A bull market is a feast for the runners, but first—are you still alive?
