Today, I’ll share my life-saving techniques for the crypto world + money-making strategies. This practical guide can help you avoid losses and earn returns. I recommend saving it + re-reading; each time you read it, you’ll gain new insights.
I. Life-Saving Tips: Keep your money tight, don't get skinned.
1. Pyramid Diversification Method: The first rule of survival.
50% Anchor: Only buy Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). You can sleep soundly even if it drops 30% during a bear market; this is your capital for a comeback — Bitcoin dropped 80% in the 2018 bear market and 70% in 2022, but it always rises back, unlike worthless coins.
30% Potential Stocks: Invest in sectors with explosive potential (AI, Depin, RWA) and focus on leading projects (like AKT). Look for three hard indicators: the team doesn’t make empty promises, on-chain data is growing, and institutional lock-up is high.
20% Scratch Cards: Play with a maximum of 5% of total principal on meme coins daily. Remember: assume it’s zero after buying; hitting a jackpot is luck, and if you don’t, don’t feel bad. Last year, I used this strategy, invested $500 in $BONK, and made 20x, but most of the time it quietly went to zero.
2. Three Anti-Cutting Strategies for Exchanges
New coins skyrocketing? Wait three days: Coins that rise 10x on the first day are 90% likely to be manipulated by the whales. Wait three days to check the turnover rate; if it's below 50%, decisively pass (turnover rate = trading volume / circulating supply, too low means no one is buying).
Annualized 1000% investment? Run!: You're worried about the interest, while they're eyeing your principal. Any legitimate platform with an annualized return over 15% should raise alarms, and over 30% is surely a trap (refer to the LUNA investment collapse in 2022).
Withdraw in three transactions: Split large withdrawals into 3 times, with 24-hour intervals. Last year, when a certain exchange suddenly froze accounts, I fortunately withdrew 70% in two transactions, preserving most of my principal.
3. Essential Safety Tools for Beginners
CoinGecko: Check market cap, avoid coins under 100 million USD (too small, manipulators can easily pump and dump);
Dexscreener: Check the 'buy/sell tax' on meme coins, anything over 10% is a robbery scheme (you lose 10% when buying and another 10% when selling, making it impossible to escape);
TokenUnlocks: Avoid coins that will soon unlock (for example, if 50% of the circulating supply is unlocked at the end of the month, the selling pressure could make you cry).
II. Money-Making Tips: Avoid pitfalls, but also learn to ambush!
1. Coin Listing Ambush Strategy
Keep an eye on the 'Upcoming Listings' section on CoinMarketCap and Binance — a week before a major exchange listing, ambush on DEX (like Uniswap).
Screening criteria:
Has official collaboration backing (such as projects collaborating with Microsoft or Google);
The VC list includes top institutions like a16z and Sequoia;
Community is active but not overly noisy before the launch (the louder ones are often retail investors picking up the pieces).
Last year before $SEI launched on Binance, I bought on DEX 3 days in advance, and it tripled on the launch day.
2. Psychological Warfare with Whales
Trending on Twitter? Wait 2 hours: Check if the trending is 'bought by the project party' or 'genuinely user-driven' — click into the topic, if 8 out of 10 tweets have the same wording, it’s fake hype, run quickly.
Exchange app lagging? Immediately cut losses: Apps often lag before major market movements (it lagged during the 2021 crash and when BTC broke 40k in 2023), during lagging it’s either a liquidation wave or manipulators cutting retail investors, better to exit first.
3. Free Airdrop Techniques
Spend 10 minutes daily interacting on-chain; small efforts can accumulate into thousands of dollars:
LayerZero: Cross-chain 100U, once a week, last year’s airdrop averaged $3000 per person;
zkSync/Starknet: Swap coins, stake, mint free NFTs; these two are the darlings of the Ethereum ecosystem, airdrops are bound to be large;
Interaction principle: Use a new wallet (don't mix with large assets), and don't exceed 100U per interaction to prevent being marked as a 'pump and dump user'.
III. Selling Tips: Only those who know how to sell are masters!
Mainstream coins (BTC/ETH): If it rises more than 100% in a month, take profit in three stages — sell 30% first, sell another 30% after a 5% pullback, and set a trailing stop for the remaining 40% (for example, liquidate if it drops below the 10-day line). In 2021, when BTC rose to 60k, I used this strategy to preserve 80% of my profits without going on a roller coaster.
Altcoins (potential coins): Liquidate on the day the exchange announces contract openings! Volatility will triple after contracts go live, and manipulators love to squeeze retail players (last year, after $SOL opened contracts, it dropped from 100 to 70 in just 3 days, burying many).
Meme coins (Dogecoin, Shitcoins): Liquidate immediately when they hit trending topics on Weibo and neighborhood aunties start asking. The peak of hype is the peak of dumping; when Dogecoin appeared on the Spring Festival Gala in 2021, it dropped 40% the next day.
Meme coins (scratch cards): When trading volume surges 10 times, withdraw your principal first! For example, if you bought at $500, sell $500 when it rises to $1000 to get your principal back, let the rest fly — last year I liquidated $PEOPLE at $0.08, and it plummeted 70% three days later; running fast is real profit.
IV. Mindset: Stay steady, don't cut yourself.
Daily recite three mantras, essential for survival:
Risen: Don’t fantasize about selling at the peak; real money is what you have in hand (I’ve seen too many people go from making 100k to losing 50k just because they thought, 'just wait a bit more');
Dropped: Don't brainwash yourself with 'long-term value', if a coin is truly valuable, it will bounce back after a 30% drop; if it drops 50% and doesn't bounce, it's garbage.
Sideways: Don't go crazy analyzing in the group, 90% of 'predictions' during sideways movement are guesses; waiting quietly for direction is better than anything.
Soul-searching question: If a certain altcoin skyrockets 500% in 1 hour and everyone in the group is shouting 'Go for it', what should you do?
Answer: Open Etherscan to check the whale’s wallet — look for large transfer records; if several wallets are selling frantically, run fast; if truly no one is selling, try a small position of 1% of your principal.
The crypto world is not a casino; it's a jungle. In turbulent times, if you want to survive, you must understand the rules; to make money, you need to understand 'when to crouch and when to run' better than others.
