The crypto market will eliminate 90% of individual investors, and that number could even be 99%. This is not alarmist rhetoric.

Any industry, from barbaric growth to maturity, must inevitably go through a period of dividends, development, saturation, slim profit, and decline.

The crypto market is no different. The true period of dividends was the bull market in 2017. Before 2017, very few people knew about it, and although there were complete bull markets, the scale was pitifully small.

At the beginning of the year, a fan from Shanghai contacted me, asking if ordinary people in the crypto market could ever turn things around, as she had been trapped deeper in the market for over a year.

Currently, she has lost 80,000. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2022 and worked for three years, saving over 100,000, almost 200,000, all of which were invested in altcoin spot trading. She entered the market after significant drops in prices, at 805 in 2024 and 203 in 2025. The losses from the exchange rate are one thing, but the coins she bought at the bottom keep falling.

She cannot recover her capital and did not continue to average down because she knows that it would surely be a bottomless pit.

I told her that her trading was affecting her emotions. I advised her to close all positions and take a three-day break before trading again.

Anyone can make money in the early stages by luck, but I am sure that the two big issues of averaging up and setting stop-losses cannot be accomplished by luck.

The stop-loss levels I provide will not be hit, and averaging up must be precise; it has to be a position where you leave after averaging up. This is a complete strategic layout...

Market fluctuations are controlled by institutional players. In the crypto market, making money and multiplying your investment is entirely about riding the wave with the institutions and earning money in the right direction. Without institutional assets, the market is stagnant, like the star assets from the last bull market, now garbage like DOT in this bull market.

In fact, knowing that your judgment is right, you have made a profit, and you believe it is a high point, but in the end, you do not profit and lose your principal, then it becomes a losing trade.

While bull and bear markets are important, price action is even more crucial. Continuously buying low and selling high is the most important.

Currently, strong main assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and BNB are in a bull market, but many altcoins have already fallen into a deep bear market.

This indicates that the market has been abandoned by institutional players, and the presence of retail investors leads to mutual liquidation and a race to the bottom. There is no lowest point, only lower points. For assets whose prices have broken below peak volumes, participation is not advised, such as DYDX, GLMR, BLUR, STRK, FIL, and many others.