Have you ever experienced nights like this? Staring at a full screen of candlesticks, MACD, RSI, repeatedly analyzing Bitcoin trends, only to find your account getting thinner and your mindset collapsing?

I have fallen into this trap too—using complex technical analysis to cover up strategic laziness until a massive liquidation woke me up from the illusion: trading experts never make money by frequent operations; they earn money through patience and discipline.

**The account is never destroyed by the market itself, but by your habits**

After reviewing all liquidation cases, the root causes boil down to these three:

Frequent trading—being unable to sit still makes you feel uncomfortable, resulting in fees and slippage eating away your capital; emotional averaging—losing money makes you throw more in like a gambler trying to break even, ultimately getting wiped out in a market wave; stubbornly holding onto stop-loss—always hoping the trend will turn around, enduring small losses until they become catastrophic. How toxic are these habits? More toxic than market volatility itself.

**From retail mindset to sniper mindset**

My turning point came from three iron rules:

Trade only at key levels—don’t guess tops and bottoms blindly; only act after trend confirmation for breakouts or pullbacks. The benefit of this approach is significantly reducing false signals, and the probability of making money naturally increases.

Add to positions only when in profit—there’s no such thing as averaging down; only let profitable trades run. The most powerful aspect of this is that it keeps your mindset stable and prevents emotional bias from losses.

Stop-loss is your bulletproof vest—set a maximum loss of within 2% of your capital per trade. Staying alive is the only bottom line. For volatile coins like SOL, ETH, ZEC, this rule must be strictly enforced.

**Trade like a crocodile—sleep 80% of the time, strike deadly blows 20% of the time**

Truly profitable traders often appear "lazy":

Most of the time, they are in flat positions, filtering out market noise, waiting for high-probability opportunities. Only when conditions are fully met do they strike with full force. After profits are secured, they immediately withdraw the principal, leaving only floating gains for further play. What’s the result? Stability, sustainability, and no need to fight the market every day.

Trading is fundamentally a probability game—less activity + small losses + small gains = long-term survival. If you’re still stuck in the cycle of frequent trading, try two changes: cut your trading frequency in half, and embed stop-losses into your mindset. Opportunities in the market are always there, but are you willing to start over with your capital?

Survive, and you will wait for the real spring.