Three years ago at three in the morning, I stared at the screen at the 'liquidation' prompt, my eyes dry and my mind blank. My account fell from 50,000 USDT to 3,000 USDT, I didn't sleep for 72 hours, and my wife angrily threw my thermos cup at me: 'Are you making money or gambling your life away?'
At that moment I realized: it's not that trading coins is too difficult, but my method was wrong.
Since then, I started trading like a 9-to-5 worker, refusing to stay up late, starting work on time, and shutting down on time, and profits became more stable. Last year this method brought me a 52% profit — more than many who fought day and night and ended up bald from staring at the screen.
The most important thing is that this method has already been successfully replicated by my wife (an accountant who knows nothing about the crypto world) — her first real trading made a small profit of 30 USDT.
1. Trade coins like clocking in at work: fixed time, stable rhythm
My current schedule is even more regular than in a system job:
🕘 Every day from 9:00 to 17:00, only trade within 'working hours'
9:00-9:30: Review time
• Check if last night's market broke key support/resistance levels
• Check if the funding rate is too high (greater than 0.1% directly abandon going long)
• Write down today's strategy: e.g., 'Enter ETH at 2200, set stop loss at 2150'
10:00-11:30 & 14:00-15:00: Key opportunities for investment
• The main players are active in the morning, suitable for operating on a 1-hour chart rhythm
• Afternoon capital inflow is a high-probability time for 4-hour signals
⚠️ I have counted: These two time periods have a winning rate far exceeding late night, and the market is cleaner, making it less likely to be fooled by false signals.
17:00: Clock out, mandatory end of work
• Regardless of profit or loss, exit the software at the scheduled time
• Once ETH was just shy of the target, I still closed for an 80% profit — later it rose, but discipline is more valuable.
🧨 I once tried to stay up all night watching the market, which resulted in consecutive liquidations — the cost of that was three months' worth of breakfast money evaporated.
2. Only trade 'familiar faces', if I'm not familiar with the market, I just wait
Trading coins is not a 'speed contest', but a 'skilled craft'.
I now only trade three trading logic that I have verified countless times; for the rest of the time, I would rather wait than randomly click:
✅ Indicator 'double confirmation', looking less often is actually more accurate
Commonly used three indicators: MACD, RSI, Bollinger Bands
Only when two or more indicators send signals in the same direction do I enter the market:
• Bullish: MACD golden cross + RSI > 50 + Bollinger middle band rising
• Bearish: MACD death cross + RSI < 50 + Bollinger middle band pressing down
📌 SOL met triple signals when it was at 100 dollars, I decisively entered the market and caught the entire main rising wave; while those who relied on 'feelings' to enter ended up going against the trend.
✅ Only trade patterns that you can understand
• Short-term explosive pattern: Two bullish candles sandwiching one bearish candle, follow immediately (1-hour chart)
• Confirming support in volatility: If the 4-hour chart tests the support three times without breaking, for example, if BTC holds at 42,000, that's a good entry point
Even my wife says: 'This indicator is like doing accounting reports, checking if the numbers match, only when both match can you claim expenses.'
✅ At night, 'reverse late trading' is focused on picking up bargains
Only leave one night shift window: 21:00 - 22:00, specifically for BTC/ETH washout corrections
Once the major players finish their moves, the market becomes clearer, and pullbacks become opportunities
One night, BTC dropped 3% during the day, but hit key support at night, I entered with a small position, made 2% profit in one hour, easily buying breakfast for the whole family the next day.
3. Account risk management = insuring the principal, never going in bare
Trading coins for three years without liquidation does not rely on luck, but on a professional risk control system:
1️⃣ Stop loss mechanism: must include in every order, flexible but never absent
• Able to monitor: Raise stop loss to cost at 5% profit, raise to +5% at 10% profit
• Unable to monitor: Default 3% hard stop loss, absolutely no ambiguity
⚠️ Once before the ETH crash, I pulled my stop loss to protect my capital and retreated, losing not a penny; meanwhile, a colleague next to me stubbornly held on, resulting in massive losses, turning into a 'human liquidation machine'.
2️⃣ Fixed 'salary distribution' every week
• Withdraw 30% of profits into the bank card on Friday
• The remaining 70% is reinvested
• Last year I withdrew 120,000, bought my wife a gold necklace, and earned 'family harmony reward +100 points'
Compared to my colleague — who hasn’t withdrawn once in three years, and now his account is nearly depleted.
3️⃣ Leverage cap: Add 'performance cap' to the principal
• Principal <10,000 USDT: Maximum 5x leverage, single position ≤10%
• Principal > 10,000 USDT: Maximum 3x, position ≤ 5%
📌 It’s not that leverage can’t be used, but it should be managed like KPIs, with systems and red lines. Stable small profits are better than aggressive large gains.
4️⃣ Never touch these three types of coins
• Leverage > 10 times contracts: equivalent to taking an all-year night shift
• Market cap <1 billion small coins: basically equals entering a pyramid scheme
• Borrowing money to trade coins: it's only a matter of time before you lose everything
I've stepped into pitfalls before, so now I screen trades like an HR interview; if the resume (market cap, liquidity, leverage) is not qualified, I reject immediately.
4. 'Crypto Attendance System': Violators will have their money deducted directly
If you want to live in the crypto world like a professional, you must have your own operating standards:
❌ No more than 3 orders a day
• More than three orders are like overtime, extremely inefficient
• Once I placed 5 orders, and the fees swallowed half the profits, and I was exhausted
❌ Two consecutive stop losses, mandatory 'take a vacation'
• Emotional instability is the easiest to misjudge, 24-hour cooling-off period empty
• Last year I shorted 12 times, but I caught the big market movements
❌ Altcoins should only be a side hustle
• Use no more than 5% of the principal to play with new project coins
• Even if there are losses, it won’t be devastating
• Last year I tested the waters with 2,000 USDT, making 500 USDT, just enough to buy a new monitor
Summary: Trading coins with a professional mindset is a hundred times more reliable than staying up late analyzing K-lines
Now my account grows as steadily as receiving a salary: a small increase of 5% each month, which adds up to over 50% net profit in a year. My wife looks at it and says: “Are you trading coins? Clearly, you have opened a crypto consulting firm, and you pay yourself regularly.”
I understand one principle: the crypto world does not reward the hard-working 'laborer', but will only reward the methodical 'professional'.
📌 If you want to turn the tables, you don't need to rely on staying up late or luck, but on methods, rhythm, and discipline.
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