Last night, a little after 2 a.m., one of my brothers sent me a voice note. His voice already didn’t sound right.


He said his principal was 8,000 U, he went long with 30x. When the market pulled back by a few percentage points, the account was wiped out immediately. He asked me where exactly it went wrong.
I went through his records—actually, one sentence explains it all:
With more than 7,000 U, you go all-in in one shot. A stop-loss? Doesn’t exist.
With trades like this, put plainly, it’s not trading—it’s betting your life.
Many people keep getting one thing wrong: they think liquidation is the fault of leverage.
It’s not. Leverage is just a tool. What really kills you is losing control of your position.
With the same 8,000 U, if you use 1,500 U to trade, even if you’re wrong on direction, you still have room to adjust.
But if you put everything in at once, and the market makes only a slightly normal move, you get taken out immediately.
After doing this for so many years, I’m increasingly convinced of one thing:
Position size determines whether you can stay alive; direction only determines how much you profit. $TAC
My own style is actually pretty “stiff,” even a bit boring:
First, the position size per trade never exceeds 20% of total capital—no exceptions, no breaking the promise.
Second, before entering, I set the stop-loss in stone. How much loss I can accept is decided upfront, and I don’t change it on the fly.
Third, if the trend isn’t clear, I don’t trade. In a choppy market, I’d rather sit there and stare blankly than reach around randomly.
There was a fan before—when he had 5,000 U, he basically made one losing trade after another, getting liquidated repeatedly.
Later he forced his position size down, and the rules were set in stone. Over the course of a few months, he slowly ground his way up to more than 8,000 U. At least, he wasn’t zeroed out anymore.
A lot of people think going all-in is courage, it’s guts.
But it’s not. Going all-in is betting—betting on when you’ll be eliminated. $EVAA
The most realistic thing in crypto is:
The market never runs out of opportunities, but your principal won’t be there forever.
Staying alive matters more than anything else.
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TAC-10.47%
EVAA-22.86%
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