From 1,250U to 23,000U in 20 days: a comeback retrospective
——The darkest moment, at rock bottom
I lost 67,000 right after getting into crypto. Every day, I stared at candlestick charts until my eyes were bloodshot. At three in the morning, I’d still be sitting there, staring blankly at the market. In the end, my account was down to just 1,250U, and everyone had pretty much written me off. My friends all urged me to quit, saying crypto was a bottomless pit. For a while, I was ready to close out everything and walk away. But in the end, I gritted my teeth and decided to give it one last try—to give my trading career some closure.
Three hard rules completely turned things around:
This time, I kicked my bad habits of recklessly going all-in and gambling on market moves. I set three ironclad rules for myself:
Never chase a pump or buy at the top, and never open a position when emotions are running high.
Never add to a position while in profit; don’t let gains evaporate.
Never try to catch a falling knife against the trend. Every trade must strictly follow my strategy.
For my first trade, I entered on an ETH rebound signal on the 30-minute chart, using only two position tranches. I took a modest profit of a few dozen points and got out immediately—no getting greedy over what might happen next. When my account first climbed from 1,250U to 1,600U, I finally understood the reassuring feeling of trading with a clear head.
After that, I kept compounding profits, deliberately reducing my position size every time I entered, and only trading setups I understood completely. I had two setbacks on the way to 20,000U, but because my risk management was solid, my principal was completely untouched. In just over 20 days, I grew the account to 23,000U.
This approach may sound simple, but 90% of retail traders can’t pull it off—not because they don’t understand the rules, but because they can’t keep their hands under control, and nobody explains the practical details of how to follow through.
The scariest thing in crypto has never been lacking technical skills; it’s “working hard” in the wrong way. Many people who lose so much that they’re emotionally shattered do want to turn things around. It’s just that the cost of struggling and figuring it out alone is far too high.@程总趋势论
——The darkest moment, at rock bottom
I lost 67,000 right after getting into crypto. Every day, I stared at candlestick charts until my eyes were bloodshot. At three in the morning, I’d still be sitting there, staring blankly at the market. In the end, my account was down to just 1,250U, and everyone had pretty much written me off. My friends all urged me to quit, saying crypto was a bottomless pit. For a while, I was ready to close out everything and walk away. But in the end, I gritted my teeth and decided to give it one last try—to give my trading career some closure.
Three hard rules completely turned things around:
This time, I kicked my bad habits of recklessly going all-in and gambling on market moves. I set three ironclad rules for myself:
Never chase a pump or buy at the top, and never open a position when emotions are running high.
Never add to a position while in profit; don’t let gains evaporate.
Never try to catch a falling knife against the trend. Every trade must strictly follow my strategy.
For my first trade, I entered on an ETH rebound signal on the 30-minute chart, using only two position tranches. I took a modest profit of a few dozen points and got out immediately—no getting greedy over what might happen next. When my account first climbed from 1,250U to 1,600U, I finally understood the reassuring feeling of trading with a clear head.
After that, I kept compounding profits, deliberately reducing my position size every time I entered, and only trading setups I understood completely. I had two setbacks on the way to 20,000U, but because my risk management was solid, my principal was completely untouched. In just over 20 days, I grew the account to 23,000U.
This approach may sound simple, but 90% of retail traders can’t pull it off—not because they don’t understand the rules, but because they can’t keep their hands under control, and nobody explains the practical details of how to follow through.
The scariest thing in crypto has never been lacking technical skills; it’s “working hard” in the wrong way. Many people who lose so much that they’re emotionally shattered do want to turn things around. It’s just that the cost of struggling and figuring it out alone is far too high.@程总趋势论