Last summer, a female fan added me with a crying voice: “Teacher, I lost 300,000 U in cryptocurrency trading, and I only have 10,000 U left. I feel like I can never turn my life around.”

Through the screen, I could feel her despair.

Going through her trading records, it was all common pitfalls for beginners: chasing after coins when they skyrocket, hoping for a rebound when they fall, and going all in when emotions run high, without any strategy.

I didn’t rush to give her trading advice, but asked her to take a week off to calmly review all her losing trades.

A week later, she messaged me, realizing the key point: 90% of her losses were due to two reasons — she couldn’t control herself and was always impulsively led; there was no discipline, and she never truly executed stop-losses.

To address these two points, I had her set two “hard rules”: a single trade loss must not exceed 5%, and if total losses in a day reach 10%, she must stop immediately, even if there are better opportunities later.

Next, I taught her the “profit stabilization” approach: only open positions at key support or resistance levels of mainstream coins like BTC and ETH, setting stop-losses precisely 1.5% outside the key level, never hoping for good luck; as long as a single coin earns enough 5%, she should withdraw her principal and only leave profits for speculation, so even if she loses later, her principal remains intact.

Finally, I gave a little tip: take 2,000 U from the 10,000 U to diversify into 3 small cryptocurrencies.

But it shouldn’t be random; it must meet two conditions:

First, the on-chain data shows that large holders are still holding and haven’t run away;

Second, the supply of that coin in the exchange is continuously decreasing, which is usually a signal that funds are quietly accumulating, preparing to pump.

Unexpectedly, five months later, she excitedly came to share her joy: not only did she recover the 300,000 U loss, but she also made an additional 50,000 U.

In fact, in the cryptocurrency world, 10,000 U is never a dead end; 99% of people fall into the obsession of wanting to recover losses quickly, always thinking of making a big score, which ironically leads to even greater losses.

Ultimately, trading cryptocurrency is not about who makes money quickly, but about who survives longer. @区块天哥