At the age of 37, this year marks my ninth year rooted in the crypto market. At last week's class reunion, old Yang, who used to stay up late watching the market with me, came over, his cigarette pinched between his fingers, wrinkled: 'Stop talking about those technical aspects; what exactly did you rely on to turn little money into a big sum?' I directly opened the asset page behind the market software, and in the fluctuations from 2022 to 2024, the initial five-digit principal quietly gained seven more zeros.
In nine years of market experience, I have divided it into three parts, and the further I go, the more I understand one principle: the faster the market's rhythm, the more one must take it 'a beat slower.' From 50,000 to 1.8 million, I spent a full three years; from 1.8 million to 9 million, it took a year and a half; finally, from 9 million to 10 million, it surprisingly only took four months. Later, I realized that the speed of making money and the frequency of trading are fundamentally an inverse relationship.
My core strategy is just one—sticking to the 'staircase breakthrough trading method.' Just like this year's trend of a certain mainstream coin, it first pulled a big bullish candle breaking through the 29,000 mark, then there were three days of small bearish and bullish retracements, and it didn't even touch 28,000 at its lowest point. On the fourth day, when it broke above 29,500 with increased volume, I entered the market through a conditional order; once it retraced and fell below the 28,500 support level, the system would automatically trigger a stop loss. No leverage, no averaging down, with the stop-loss line fixed at 2.5% and the take-profit point set at 12%, these parameters were pre-set through the trading interface, with an error margin not exceeding 0.05%.
There are always people in the circle who laugh at me for being 'too conservative': I don't look at MACD, RSI, or any indicators, and I'm too lazy to check community hot topics. How can I seize opportunities? But during the last crash of a certain conceptual coin last year, those friends who were glued to the news and chasing prices, eight out of ten ended up losing everything. I simplified the market to the extreme: I only look at the 4-hour candlestick chart, overlaying a light purple 20-day moving average. I spend five minutes every day at the close to glance at it; if there is a matching staircase pattern, I place an order; if not, I close the software—this leaves me time to practice piano with my daughter and fish with old buddies, treating market fluctuations as background noise.
When profits reach a critical point, I must 'cash out for safety': when it hits 1.8 million, I withdraw 100,000 in principal for stable investment; when it reaches 9 million, I transfer 5 million to an offline wallet, and the remaining funds continue to roll. Even if a 'black swan' event occurs the next day, the cushion I have is thick enough. There are three iron rules that I must review every night before sleeping: do not chase before the breakout's volatility, wait for the pattern to confirm before acting; do not hold losing positions, leave immediately if it breaks; do not be greedy for excess returns, once the take-profit target is reached, withdraw part of the funds.
There is no myth of 'guaranteed profit' in the crypto market, only the game of 'selection.' Filter out those who want to get rich overnight, filter out the impulsiveness of following the crowd, filter out the noise outside the market, and only then will the trend opportunities become clear. 15 times of 12% stable returns, from 50,000 to 10 million, is merely the natural result after enduring impatience.
