7 years ago, like all newcomers, I watched Bitcoin rise from 789 to 19783, FOMO kicked in and I went all in, only to see a 40% drop a week later... But now my investment portfolio has outperformed the market by 470%, and the key is — the method of rolling positions:
● Floating profit addition: After gaining floating profits, consider adding positions. However, before adding positions, ensure that the holding cost has been lowered to reduce the risk of losses. This does not mean blindly adding positions after making profits, but should be done at the right time.
● Base position + T-trading rolling position: Divide funds into multiple parts, leaving one part of the base position untouched, while using another part for high selling and low buying operations.
Specific ratios can be chosen based on personal risk preferences and fund scales. For example, one can choose half position for rolling T-trading, 30% base position for rolling T-trading, or 70% base position for rolling T-trading, etc. This operation can reduce holding costs and increase profits.
I believe there are mainly two definitions of 'the right time':
1. Add positions during convergence breakout trends, quickly reduce the added portion after the breakout to enjoy the main rising wave.
2. Increase trend-based positions during pullback trends, such as buying in batches at pullbacks on moving averages.
There are many specific ways to roll positions, the most common being achieved through adjusting holdings. Traders can gradually decrease or increase positions based on market trends to aim for profits. Traders can also use trading tools like leverage to amplify gains, which also increases risk.
Three factors to pay attention to in trading:
First, the factor is mindset.
Secondly, it’s the truth of human nature.
Third, be diligent in learning and enhance your cognition.
Survival guide for newcomers: How to 'survive' in the crypto world?
✅ Control positions, leave enough bullets
Never invest all your funds at the beginning; leave yourself room to maneuver and maintain sufficient liquidity to cope with sudden market changes.
✅ Stay away from high leverage, be cautious with contracts.
Contract trading is extremely risky, especially for beginners; liquidation is often just a matter of time. Don't be tempted by short-term high returns; preserving capital is key.
✅ Focus on mainstream cryptocurrencies
Mainstream cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum are relatively stable in terms of volatility and have stronger risk resistance, making them suitable for newcomers to accumulate assets through dollar-cost averaging or long-term holding.
✅ Strict stop profit and stop loss
Greed and luck are the major enemies in the crypto world. Set reasonable stop profit and stop loss points, decisively exit when it's time to leave, don’t let profitable positions turn into losses, and don’t hold unrealistic hopes for losing positions.
✅ Regularly hold stablecoins
Keep a certain amount of USDT, USDC and other stablecoins on hand, which can both respond to funding needs in emergencies and quickly enter the market when opportunities arise.
✅ Reject chasing highs, maintain rationality
Market opportunities arise every day; it's okay to miss one, but blindly chasing highs is the biggest risk. Stay calm, avoid being swayed by market emotions, and patiently wait for real opportunities.
Why is it said that playing spot trading in the crypto world, at least it's not easy to lose money?
As someone who started with 50,000 yuan in the crypto world and achieved financial freedom, I am increasingly convinced of one fact: If you have enough understanding of the crypto world, spot trading is a market where it is extremely difficult to lose money.
Of course, this also depends on the individual. Newbies entering the market can easily incur losses by buying high and trading emotionally, but as long as you've experienced two cycles of bull and bear and truly understand the market, you'll find: spot trading is truly a way to make steady profits.
I have recently been thinking about a question: why do most people who make money play spot trading rather than contracts?
I summarized the following key reasons:
① Cognitive levels determine strategies:
Most people who trade spot have already 'gained enlightenment' outside the market.
They have large capital, are not in a hurry to achieve results, and can live well without the crypto world.
So you can hold on, see clearly, and won't be thrown off by short-term fluctuations.
In contrast, people who trade contracts often have funds below $100,000 and can easily lose balance in their mindset.
Wanting to reach the sky in one step and thinking of a tenfold return can easily lead to starting over from zero.
Leverage trading without risk tolerance is essentially gambling.
② Different cycles have vastly different margins for error:
Spot trading is long-term investment with a high margin for error. No matter how big the pullback, as long as the asset is of high quality, it is likely to return or even double in a few years.
Contracts are short-cycle trades with a very low margin for error. High funding rates, small stop-loss points, and you must judge the direction correctly in the short term; once wrong, it results in real losses, or even direct liquidation.
③ The psychological pressure gap is enormous:
Tossing and turning at night, dreaming of liquidation.
Watching the market makes my eyelids twitch, adding margin feels like paying a 'life price'.
And spot trading provides time and freedom:
Sleep when you want to sleep, do what you want to do.
Looking back, I surprisingly made a lot while 'lying flat'.
So the question arises: how to achieve steady profits in spot trading?
1. Do 'understand before investing': Don't be an emotional investor.
Many people heavily invest in Ethereum and curse when it doesn't rise — that indicates you don't understand what you bought.
You must truly research its mechanism, logic, development path, and core value, and understand where its long-term growth momentum lies; otherwise, you won't be able to hold on.
'Don't understand, don't invest' is not just a slogan, but the first principle of survival in spot trading.
2. Patiently wait for opportunities: Don't mindlessly chase just because 'it's good'.
Chasing a good project when it skyrockets will only help others take advantage.
True opportunities are always born in low emotional areas.
When others throw it away as a 'hot potato', you dare to catch it steadily;
Rather than joining in when everyone is scrambling for the climax.
Investment is not based on emotions, but on cost-effectiveness. A truly excellent hunter knows how to wait for the prey to come close.
To summarize in one sentence:
The core of making money in spot trading is the combination of cognition and timing.
Understanding what you are buying is 'value';
Finding the right entry position is 'price'.
The combination of both is the chips to survive bull and bear markets.
Survival Guide for Newcomers in the Crypto World: Understand these 3 truths before talking about making money
1. The essence of the crypto world: An emotional-driven battlefield of cognition
The crypto world is not a 'parallel universe' of traditional finance, but a 'cognition disparity harvesting game'.
Counterintuitive law:
✅ Short-term fluctuations are determined by 'stories': A certain AI concept coin skyrockets 500% on a white paper sketch, yet its implementation progress is 0 but retail investors catch the falling knife.
✅ Capital flow > Project value: In 2024, a certain MEME coin's market cap surpasses DeFi protocol leaders, solely due to aggressive community hype.
Newbie traps: Viewing the crypto world with 'stock trading mentality', focusing on financial reports and K-lines while neglecting 'hot narratives' often leads to becoming the 'last one holding the bag'.
2. Technical Analysis: Tools ≠ Weapons, Structure > Indicators
Fatal Pitfalls:
❌ Believing that 'golden crosses must rise': After Bitcoin's MACD golden cross in December 2024, it plummeted 15% the next day (the dealer's counter-harvest).
❌ Obsessed with 'catching the bottom indicators': Retail investors enter based on RSI being oversold, unaware that dealers can make indicators 'invalid' for weeks.
Advanced Thinking:
✅ First judge the cycle: Use 'weekly charts to see trends + daily charts to set the rhythm', avoid blindly 'catching the bottom' in a bear market.
✅ Also look at capital: Observe whale address flows through Glassnode; when whales continuously reduce their positions for 7 days, any indicator is 'a trap for buyers'.
3. Ultimate practice: Emotional control > all techniques.
Newbie death cycle:
Seeing a certain coin skyrocket → chasing high to buy (fear of missing out)
Plummeting 5% → Panic selling (fear of being deeply trapped)
After cutting losses, the rebound → anxiety of missing out → chasing highs again.
Data: Binance user research shows that frequent traders have an annualized loss rate of 89%, while users with cash holding time > 60% have a higher probability of profit.
Survival rules for experts:
✅ Discipline of holding cash: If the market is sideways for more than 2 weeks and the hotspots are chaotic, enforce a cash holding (waiting for a 'clear trend')
✅ Emotional anchor:
Profit exceeding 20% → Immediately withdraw 50% of profits to bank card (breaking the illusion of digital wealth)
Daily losses exceeding 5% → Close trading software, refrain from operations for 24 hours.
Four, 'three don'ts' advice for newcomers.
Case analysis of behavioral replacement strategies: chasing hot coins focusing on 'high consensus coins' (BTC/ETH) A certain metaverse coin skyrocketed 10 times and then went to zero, leaving retail investors with nothing; using 'pyramid adding position' (adding 20% position after a 10% drop); in 2025, while BTC plummeted 30%, those who built positions in batches had a cost 18% lower than all-in; following 'signal groups' using 'on-chain data' to verify information (like large transfers on etherscan); a certain community hyped 'institutional accumulation', but in reality, it was the dealer's exit before luring in buyers.
Conclusion: The core formula for making money in the crypto world is 'depth of cognition × stability of emotions'. Before entering the market, ask yourself three questions:
Can I withstand the risk of 'principal going to zero'?
Am I willing to spend more than 3 months researching the 'essence of the industry'?
Can I do 'holding cash for 1 month straight' waiting for opportunities?
If the answers are all 'can', then enter with 'rationality'. Remember: This market never lacks 'short-term profit takers', but those who survive to the end are always the 'rationalists' who counter emotionalism.
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