If you don’t even have $1,000 U on hand, don’t spend every day thinking about how many multiples to flip.

First, think clearly about one thing: how to survive.

Last year, I brought along a brother—he started with 900U, and ended up at more than 80 thousand. He never got liquidated once in the middle. It wasn’t that he was especially good; it was just that he did a few really dumb things.

He split the money into three parts: one for short-term trades, with at most one deal a day; one to wait for the swing, moving only once every ten days or half a month; and the remaining one that he never touches—that’s for keeping himself alive. A lot of people come in with full positions right away to chase returns—that isn’t trading, it’s handing out their head.

I’ve never touched sideways markets. Back then, 80% of my losses happened in places like that. If there’s no direction, pause and wait; only when the move becomes clear do you act. Those trades are the ones that truly let you take a bite of the meat.

Rules are set in advance—don’t obsess in the middle of the chart. If your stop-loss hits, cut it; if you reach the target, reduce your position. And when your account earns a bit, take it back out. The most important rule of all—when you’re losing, you absolutely must not add to the position. You think you’re catching the bottom, but actually you’re digging a pit.

Later, when that brother got to more than 80 thousand, he completely changed. No more staying up late or doing random stuff. Every day he just checks twice and then calls it a day. He said he used to think trading is about taking risks, but now he knows it’s about who is steadier.

In this place, the fast ones are many; the ones who can keep living are few. $EVAA