The day I received Amin's voice message, I was summarizing for my fans. His voice mixed with the echo of the corridor, intermittent: 'Bro, I'm lying in the stairwell now, with only 500U left...' Later I learned that he had given up his rental house, trading during the day in an internet cafe, and at night curled up in the stairwell, hesitating for a long time even to buy a bottle of water.

Eight days later, he sent a screenshot of 2803U, attached with a photo of instant noodles: 'Just added a sausage, what should I do next?' Someone in the group said 'lucky', but only I knew that within this 5.6 times increase, it hid his perseverance of staring at the stop-loss line at 3 am, and the restraint of not adding positions after taking profit on 3 consecutive trades—what's hardest in the crypto world is not the market but whether you dare to use the 'stupid method' to combat the anxiety of being afraid of poverty.

Phase 1: In the first 3 days, use 500U to set up a 'life-saving framework', even if you make 3 mistakes, you won't die.

When Amin first came to me, he dared to use 400U to contract with 500U, reasoning that 'I need to make quick money to pay rent.' I forced him to change the first rule: only use 10% of the position (50U) to open a trade, set a stop-loss at 3%, and even if he makes 10 mistakes, he can still have 350U left. This is not conservative; it's leaving some breathing room for a desperate account.

Specific operations are like 'building blocks':

① 50U test position, lock the risk within 'the cost of a meal'.

With a principal of 500U, each trade only uses 50U, 3x leverage, and a stop-loss of 3% (maximum loss of 1.5U). Amin's first two trades both hit stop-losses, losing a total of 3U, leaving his account with 497U—compared to before when he traded with 400U, and after two mistakes only had 100U left, he couldn't hold on to turn it around.

On the third day he correctly traded one ETH, earning 4.2U, excitedly sending a screenshot: 'So 50U can also earn!' Actually, I wanted to tell him: the first lesson for small funds is to learn to 'afford to lose.' Just like he later wrote in his notes: 'I used to think earning 4U from 50U was too little, now I understand, this 4U didn't make me run away overnight.'

② Only trade 'clear trend cards', shut down when in sideways movement.

I drew a red line for Amin: only trade coins that are 'lying and rising' on the 4-hour chart—K-lines look like climbing stairs, every pullback does not exceed 5%, and the 5-day line steadily supports the price. He squatted for two days, waiting for BTC to pull back to the 5-day line, using 50U to test the trade, making 5.8U in 12 hours, which was his food money for two days.

Once in the group someone shouted 'altcoins are going to skyrocket', he opened the K-line and found it was a 'spike' (fluctuating 10%), and he stubbornly held back from acting. Later that coin dropped 20%, and he was in the stairwell munching on dry bread, laughing: 'Luckily I wasn't greedy.'

Phase 2: In the middle 3 days, use profits to build a 'rolling warehouse ladder', stepping steadily before climbing.

When the account reached 600U, Amin got carried away and wanted to raise his position to 20%. I calculated for him: 50U earning 10% is 5U, 100U earning 10% is 10U, but if it loses 10%, the former remains 45U, the latter remains 90U—small fund rolling warehouse, slow is fast. He ultimately added positions according to the 'climbing stairs' rhythm:

The 3 key steps of rolling the warehouse:

① Only add 20U to the position after earning 100U.

For every additional 100U in the account, only add 20U to the position (for example, when at 600U use 70U, at 700U use 90U). Amin tried this trick on SOL: after earning 12U with 50U, he added to 70U and earned 16.8U, making more from two waves than from using 120U at once, with half the risk.

What he was most proud of was 'profit isolation': the money earned is stored separately in a 'meal card account', the principal of 500U never moves. In 8 days, the 'meal card' accumulated 300U, enough for him to rent a short-term apartment, no longer needing to sleep in the stairwell.

② Only add positions when it pulls back to the 'knee position', never chase the rise.

I taught him to look for the 'knee position'—for example, when ETH rises to 2000 and pulls back to 1950 (a drop of 2.5%) that is the ankle, 1900 (a drop of 5%) is the knee, and this is the safest time to add positions. Amin added 70U when ETH pulled back to 1900, and 3 hours later it rose to 2050, making a profit of 21U, equivalent to the profit of the previous two days.

'I used to be afraid of missing out, but now I understand that good markets will wait for you to tie your shoelaces.' He drew a simple sketch of a knee in his notes, with the word 'wait' next to it.

③ Take profit on 2 consecutive trades, and force a 2-hour empty position.

Amin set an alarm: after two consecutive profitable trades, he would close the software and go downstairs to walk in circles. One time he made 18U consecutively and was about to add to his position when the alarm went off. When he returned, he found that the coin had indeed pulled back, losing only 12U. 'Being in an empty position is harder than trading, but the profit preserved is enough to buy two buckets of instant noodles.'

Phase 3: In the last 2 days, use 'Take Profit in Three Cuts' to cash out, and the money earned should be tangible.

When his account reached 2500U, Amin was instead panicked, fearing he would wake up and return to square one. I taught him the 'Take Profit in Three Cuts': first cut 30%, second cut 50%, third cut to liquidate, and each cut must be transferred to the bank card; only when you touch it can you count it as profit.

Cash out the 'anti-human operation':

① First cut: cut when you earn 30%, regardless of how much it rises later.

When he hit 2500U, he cut 30% (750U) according to the rules and transferred it to Alipay to buy a mattress—'Touching the mattress makes it real.' The remaining 1750U continued to roll; even if he lost, at least he had a bed to sleep on.

② Second cut: cut after a 5% pullback, lock in the profits.

When ETH pulled back from 2050 to 1950 (a drop of 4.8%), he cut 50% (875U) and kept 875U to continue. This cut saved him 875U, and later ETH dropped another 10%, but he was not panicked at all.

③ Third cut: after liquidating, you must rest for 1 day, even if the market is good.

When he finally cleared the 875U, he forced himself to sit in the park for a day, setting his phone to airplane mode. 'Watching the old man play chess made me realize, if you win, you have to take a sip of tea; always thinking about killing the chess will eventually lead to being counter-killed.'

From 500U to 2800U, he relied on this chart to escape despair.

Amin wrote the operations of the 8 days into a 'survival manual', and later the 3 fans who followed him, the fastest tripled in 5 days:

He now often says: 'The secret to turning 500U around is not finding some magical coin, but learning to be tough on yourself—tough enough not to be greedy, tough enough to wait, tough enough to just run away once you make a profit.' Yesterday he sent a new photo: he set up a desk in his rental room, with a notebook full of knee sketches on it, next to it was half a bag of instant noodles, but this time he added a braised egg.

People in the background often ask: 'With only a few hundred U left, can I still turn it around?' Amin's answer is written on the last page of his notes: 'Whether 500U can turn around doesn’t depend on the market; it depends on whether you dare to use 50U to make 4U, whether you dare to watch the stop-loss for 3 consecutive days with only 4 hours of sleep, and whether you dare to take out your profit to buy a bed—if you can do these, 500U is just the starting point.'

You will find: the crypto world lacks opportunities the most, but lacks people who dare to use the stupid method to climb slowly. The most heart-wrenching part of Amin's story is: he proved in 8 days that the difference between 500U and 2800U is just these 12 words—'Don't gamble, don't be greedy, don't be afraid of others saying you are slow.' And these 12 words are best understood by those who have been hungry.

Having one person staring at the K-line guessing support levels is not as good as a team circling critical points in advance; on the edge of liquidation, stubbornly gritting your teeth to hold on is not as good as someone saying 'first close half the position.' The hardship of fighting alone doesn’t need to become a habit. We explore the direction; we control the risk; you just follow the rhythm. I've always been here, waiting for you to set sail together.

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