1. Take profit and stop loss: the first line of defense against human nature
The wisdom of taking profits:
Just catch the body of the fish, don't be greedy for the tail (e.g. BTC from 60,000 to 70,000, catch the most stable 6000-6800 segment)
Practical skills: dynamic stop profit (move stop loss every 5% increase), forcibly close if profit retraces 30%
The cruel truth of stop loss:
Anticipating 100 trades may succeed 99 times, but one black swan can wipe it all out (refer to LUNA's overnight collapse)
Blood and tears formula: Single loss ≤ 2% of capital, total drawdown ≤ 10% must stop trading
2. Trading frequency: less is more philosophy
High-frequency trading will lead to demise:
With 10x leverage, opening 10 trades in 1 day ≈ giving the exchange 2000U in fees (calculated at a 0.05% rate)
Data truth: Top traders average ≤ 3 trades per day, with a win rate > 65% can achieve annualized 500%+
Golden rule:
Only take 1-2 high certainty opportunities daily (e.g. BTC breaking key weekly level + increased volume)
3. Empty position practice: the waiting art of top hunters
Missing out vs loss mathematical problem:
Missing out = 0 loss, blindly opening trades = -20% starting loss
Case study: In March 2024 during BTC consolidation, frequent long/short traders lost an average of 37%
Empty position signal:
Volatility index (VIX) > 80
24 hours before major policy announcement (e.g. Federal Reserve meeting)
4. The core concept of position management
Newbie's deadly move:
1000U capital × 100x leverage = 1 second liquidation
Professional player model:
Total position ≤ 10% of capital (e.g. 10,000U account single trade ≤ 1,000U)
Leverage ≤ 20 times (drop to 5 times in extreme market conditions)
Avoidance of averaging down: adding to a losing position is a suicidal act (see 2023 FTX collapse and chain liquidation)
5. The truth behind compound miracles
Stable compound model:
Earn 1% daily, 250 days → 12 times (1000U turns into 12,000U)
Lose 1% daily, 100 days → zero (mathematical inevitability)
Practical strategy:
Profit withdrawal rule: withdraw 30% of weekly profits into stablecoins
Loss circuit breaker: stop trading for 1 day after 3 consecutive losing trades
6. The ultimate form of trading system
Three steps to build a system:
Signal layer: only trade 3 familiar patterns (e.g. head and shoulders breakout, EMA golden cross with volume)
Execution layer: fixed opening quantity (e.g. always open 0.1 lots of BTC)
Risk control layer: hard stop loss + time stop loss (if a position hasn't profited after 4 hours, forcibly close it)
Mindset mantra:
"If you don't understand = don't trade, if you trade, always have a stop loss"
"Take profits, never add to losses"
The necessary path from loss to profit
Liquidation more than 3 times → Understand market cruelty
No leverage for 3 consecutive months → Restructure trading cognition
Establish a trading log → Record reasons/emotional state for each trade
Find 1 effective strategy → Repeat execution over 100 times