After trading contracts for thirteen years, let me put it bluntly: that liquidation “needle” never pricks beginners—it goes after those old pros who think they’ve “figured it out.”


$RIF Last month, one of my brothers entered with 50k U. In 7 days he traded it up to 260k U, and when he posted screenshots to his Moments, he even added location tags.
$ETH Then a pullback hit. He kept holding the position, added margin, held again—until he finally got liquidated.
From 260k to 4,000—less than four hours.
He was squatting in the stairwell smoking, his hands trembling, and asked me, “Brother Xu, am I just not destined to have money?”
I told him it has nothing to do with fate. You didn’t leave yourself any way out at all.
Many people treat high leverage like a monster. In reality, the monster isn’t leverage—it’s not knowing how to use it.
Using 100x leverage with only 1% of your position: the risk is no different from buying spot;
but if you go all-in, even at 5x, you’re basically charging into a fire with an explosive charge strapped to your chest.
After doing this for so long, I only follow one “dead” rule: on each trade, I risk no more than a tiny sliver of my total capital.
If you lose, don’t get blind with rage; if you win, don’t get carried away. It’s so that the next day I can still open my account and trade.
You only see me getting rich off the win—you don’t see the times I’m sitting in cash, gnawing dry buns with an empty position.
I open trades only a couple of times a year. If the risk-reward ratio is below 3:1, no matter what you say, I won’t move.
I also ate losses on take-profit before I finally learned—when the price pops, I take out a batch. Then I let the remaining zero-cost “chips” run on their own.
Every year I also spend a bit of money buying options, just to treat my account like it has insurance.
In this business, it’s not about who can call it right—it’s about who can afford to lose.
If your win rate is 40%, it’s fine: lose once and you only lose a layer of skin; win once and you feast like you’re at a full banquet. When you tally it all up, you’re still ahead.
What’s sitting in your account isn’t just numbers—it’s the life of your next round.
When the market isn’t moving, I can wait longer than a turtle; when it moves, I’m more decisive than a rabbit.
Don’t bet on your temper—trust discipline, trust yourself.
If you’re always being dragged around by every uptick and downtick and you can’t hold your position, come find Brother Su to chat. Brother Xu will show you rational trading—no betting your life!
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