After three years of crawling into the circle, I finally deleted the 3 a.m. alarm on my phone.

I still remember those days, when I was completely a slave to K-line charts, held tightly by the market, unable to breathe for a moment.

Starting with a principal of 1800U, staying up late to watch the market became the norm, chasing gains and cutting losses without logic—earning 200U excitedly until dawn, losing 100U tossing and turning. In three months, three margin calls crushed my account down to only 400U, and I couldn't even eat.

At that time, I was truly at a dead end, forced to stop trading, repeatedly reviewing and studying each transaction record, and finally summarized three life-and-death rules.

**First: Positions must be split, and fate must be in your own hands.**

Divide that 400U into three parts: 100U for intraday swings, making only two trades a day, closing when the target is reached, and not being greedy; 200U for medium-term layout, waiting for weekly signals, staying in cash if no signals; the remaining 100U is frozen in a cold wallet, not touching it unless the account doubles. From that moment on, I truly understood that surviving in the crypto world is far more important than quick profits.

**Second: Stop-loss is the rule of death; emotions have no right to decide.**

Set a strict discipline and execute it absolutely: short-term stop-loss at 1.5%, triggering a flat; medium-term stop-loss at 3%, automatically clearing the position. No hope for rebounds, no room for averaging down. Once I endured a tough one, watching my loss burn from 2% to 15%, I finally realized that sometimes admitting mistakes is more professional than stubbornness.

**Third: Take profits at the right time; real money proves everything.**

Whether short-term or medium-term, when the principal increases by 10%, immediately take 50% into the account. The first time I withdrew 2000 yuan, that sense of security was more real than having 10,000U floating in the account—the numbers on the screen are bubbles; what I hold in my hand is confidence.

Waiting in cash is the hardest. The screen is full of screenshots of others’ meme coins doubling, itching to smash the keyboard. But every time, I force myself to think clearly: this market doesn’t belong to me; even if I make money, it’s luck plus some water, and in the end, I still have to spit it out.

Persisted for half a year, climbing from 400U to 32,000U. Never margin called again, and never touched the alarm clock again.

The biggest test in the crypto circle is not whether you can double your money, but whether you can overcome the fear of missing out and the common disease of stubbornly holding long positions. True profit is sleeping without anxiety, waking up without panic, and trading calmly.

If you also want to focus and do this seriously, we can exchange ideas.

Topic: Crypto Market Observation