I have been navigating the cryptocurrency market for over ten years, from the despair of liquidation to achieving financial freedom. Making a living through trading has become my daily routine.

In 2024, my account multiplied by 150 times. Honestly, if it weren’t for two withdrawals to buy houses, the number could have reached 240 times. Today, I want to share my trading strategy and the pitfalls I’ve encountered along the way.

There’s an old saying: Standing on the shoulders of giants allows you to save ten years of effort. I want to spend 3 minutes explaining how to turn your exchange from a "harvester" into a "cash machine."

**Most people's wrong approach**

Most traders spend every day doing one thing: guessing market ups and downs day and night, eyes glued to the charts, calculating market sentiment. Exhausted, yet their accounts still lose money. I’ve flipped the script — I don’t predict the market, I design probabilities. In these 5 years, I’ve never blown up my account, turning 3,000 USD into a eight-figure sum. It’s not due to insider information or divine indicators, but a "casino boss" style trading mindset.

**The core strategies boil down to three points**

**First trick: Lock in profits with compounding, prioritize capital preservation before amplification**

From the moment I open a position, I set stop-loss and take-profit levels — never change my mind on the fly. Once profits reach 10% of the principal, I immediately withdraw half to a cold wallet. The remaining position is left to the market to play — if it rises, I compound; if it falls, I partially cut losses, but the principal remains safe. Over these 5 years, I’ve taken profits more than 30 times using this rule, with a weekly withdrawal peak of 180,000 USD, verified by exchanges. The essence of trading is simply: continuously take money out of the market.

**Second trick: Misaligned position building, use liquidation points as benchmarks**

Multi-timeframe analysis is fundamental — daily charts determine the direction, 4-hour charts identify trends, 15-minute charts find entry points. For the same coin, I use a dual-order strategy: one order follows the trend with stop-loss outside the daily range; the other operates in the opposite direction, placed at extreme emotional levels. The combined stop-loss of these two orders doesn’t exceed 1.5% of the principal, but the take-profit target is 5 times the stop-loss. During market oscillations, I repeatedly eat structured trades. During the Luna collapse in 2022, I was both long and short with profits, and my account grew by 40%. It’s not that I predicted the right direction, but that probability was on my side.

**Third trick: Stop-loss equals explosive profits, small losses for big opportunities**

I don’t chase high win rates — a 38% win rate is enough, as long as the risk-reward ratio reaches 4.8:1. In other words, for every dollar risked, the mathematical expectation is to earn $1.90. When the market is favorable, I move my take-profit; if the trend turns against me, I cut losses immediately. Stop-loss isn’t a failure, but the cost of entry. As long as you’re still in the game, the big trend will give you opportunities.

**Discipline in execution**

Divide your funds into 10 parts for management, with each position not exceeding 1 part, and no more than 3 positions open simultaneously. After two consecutive losses, shut down and adjust for a day — never revenge trade. If your account doubles, take 20% out to buy US bonds or gold, to steadily survive the bear market.

**The method seems simple, but it’s deeply counter-human**

Remember: the market isn’t afraid of your wrong judgment; it’s afraid that you blow up your account and can never recover. Take these three points to make the exchange truly work for you. The crypto world is never short of opportunities — what’s missing are those with the execution power.