When he found me, there were only 1400U left in his account, which was the aftermath of his third liquidation. Almost every day at dawn, I would receive his messages: "Bro, if I keep losing, I really have to quit the circle." That anxiety of desperately wanting to recover quickly while fearing further losses was reminiscent of every one of us who had just entered the market.
On the first day, I told him to use 10% of his position to buy ETH. He looked at the screen and asked back, "Just 200U? How long will it take to earn that amount?" I looked at him and said seriously, "You’re not here to gamble your life; you’re here to rebuild your account." In the end, he still gritted his teeth and pressed the buy button.
Three days later, the market started, and the account showed a floating profit of 36%. I told him to convert all the 600+ U he earned into stablecoins and hold them, only using the initial capital to continue trading. "Profits are like seeds; you must save them first to grow more." During that time, we almost monitored the market together, and he carefully recorded every transaction in his notebook, even annotating the movements in the early morning hours.
1400U, 1900U, 5200U, 8700U... On the 28th day, the account broke through 50,000 U. He suddenly asked me, "Bro, am I considered an expert now? Can I bring friends to do this?" I did not answer, but I saw his social media starting to showcase profit screenshots, captioned: "Turning the tables isn’t actually that hard."
However, on the 34th day, he did not tell me and heavily invested in an altcoin, reasoning that "after studying the K-line for three days, I felt it would definitely rise." By the time I found out, the account had already pulled back by 43%. "I just wanted to test my judgment," he said with stubbornness in his tone. From that day on, he began to trade frequently, widening his stop losses, as if he had returned to that initially collapsing state.
On the 36th day, I blocked him. By then, there were still 28,000 U left in the account. It wasn't that I couldn't accept losses, but I couldn't watch him gradually abandon the principles we had painstakingly established over 28 days: diversifying positions, setting stop losses, rolling profits... These fundamental disciplines ultimately succumbed to the impulse to "prove oneself."
The deepest lesson from the cryptocurrency world may be: it is not difficult to grow from a few thousand U to tens of thousands U; what is truly difficult is to maintain profits and continue to proceed steadily. Those who survive do not rely on a single windfall, but integrate discipline into their instincts. As old fishermen say: you can bring back fish from the sea, not because of a stroke of luck, but because you understand where there are undercurrents and when to pull in the net.
