I still remember it was the summer of 2023 when I went to visit my older sister who married far away in Chaozhou, Guangdong. Friends who have been to Chaozhou should know that the summer climate there is hot and humid, with temperatures sometimes reaching 37°C. By chance, I met a younger sister from Chaozhou born in '98. That night, the weather was bad, raining heavily. I ordered takeout, and the estimated delivery time was half an hour, but after waiting for almost an hour, it still hadn't arrived. I thought it might be due to the weather. About 10 minutes later, there was a knock on the door. When I opened it, I saw a soaking wet and very frail little girl. When she handed me the takeout, she looked timid and said, 'Brother, I'm sorry, I'm just starting and not familiar with the road conditions. Can you not give me a bad review?' I said, 'It's okay.' I then asked her, 'Why didn't you bring a raincoat?' She replied, 'I didn't bring it when I went out.' Holding the takeout, I said to her, 'Wait a moment.' I turned back into my house, grabbed a raincoat, and handed it to her. She looked confused and hurriedly waved her hands, saying, 'No, no, it's not necessary.' I said, 'It's fine, you use it first, and bring it back to me when it stops raining.' Just like that, we got to know each other. Later, during our chats, I learned that the preference for boys over girls is severe in Chaozhou, which led her to drop out of school at a young age, lacking education, and she could only work part-time delivering food. We kept in touch until March of this year when she saw a post I made on social media and asked me, 'Brother, what do you do for a living? I see you often traveling to different places on your social media.' I then told her I was involved in BTC. Unexpectedly, she told me she was also involved, having only 1,400 USDT left after a liquidation. I personally guided her, helping her grow her assets from 1,400 USDT to 54,000 USDT, but on the 36th day, I blacklisted her. This story might help you understand the true meaning of 'turning the tables' in the cryptocurrency world.
When she first came to me, there was only 1,400 USDT left in her account, a dire situation after three liquidations. Every early morning, she would send me messages: 'Brother, if I lose any more, I'm completely leaving this circle.' That anxiety of wanting to make quick money while being afraid of missing opportunities was exactly like what we felt when we first entered the cryptocurrency world.
On the first day, I taught her to take out 10% of her position to build a position. She stared at the screen and asked back, 'Just 200 USDT? How long will it take to make a profit?' I said, 'You're not here to gamble; you're here to rebuild your account.' She pressed the buy button.
Three days later, the market started to rally, and the account had a floating profit of 36%. I told her to transfer the 600 USDT she earned to a stablecoin wallet and continue trading with the original position. 'Profits are like seeds that need to be stored before they can sprout.' During that time, we were almost synchronously watching the market; she recorded every trade in her notebook, even filling it with dense annotations during the three a.m. market analysis.
1,400 USDT, 1,900 USDT, 5,200 USDT, 8,700 USDT... On the 28th day, when it broke 50,000, she suddenly asked, 'Brother, am I considered a master now? Can I bring my friends to do this too?' I didn't respond, I just saw her social media posts starting to show profit screenshots, captioned 'It's not difficult to turn the tables in the cryptocurrency world.'
On the 34th day, she secretly heavily invested in a meme coin, reasoning that 'after watching the K-line for three days, I felt it would definitely rise.' By the time I found out, the account had already lost 43%. 'I wanted to test my judgment,' she said, her tone defiant. From that day on, she began to frequently trade short positions, and her stop-loss settings became increasingly lax, just like when she had her first liquidation.
On the 36th day, when I blacklisted her, there was still 28,000 USDT left in the account. I wasn't heartbroken over the loss, but rather seeing her throw away the most basic rules of 'division of positions, stop-loss, and rolling positions' — those disciplines we spent 28 days gradually integrating into our operations ultimately couldn't withstand her impulse to 'prove herself.'
The harsh truth in the cryptocurrency world is: it's not difficult to go from 1,400 USDT to 50,000; the challenge is to hold onto 50,000 and continue moving forward. Those who survive in the cryptocurrency world never rely on a single massive profit but rather turn discipline into a conditioned reflex. As the old fishermen say, catching big fish when going out to sea doesn't rely on one trip, but rather knowing which areas of the sea have reefs.
