Trading crypto for 9 years—my craziest experience was still the big bull market in 2017.


Back then, I bought a small-cap altcoin with a very low cost, and it jumped dozens of times in a few months.
Every day I opened my account, watching the numbers climb, thinking that someday I’d switch apartments, get a new car, and even feeling that financial freedom wasn’t far away.
But in the end, it gave me a harsh lesson:
Money you make that you don’t cash out is always just a number.
After the market reversed, the profits slowly got given back bit by bit. What once felt within reach finally left me with only a small portion.
And it was from that time on that I truly understood:
In trading, the buy point determines whether you can make money, and the sell point determines whether you can take your money with you.
In the years since, I’ve kept a few simple but very important principles:
First, take profit in batches.
Don’t always try to sell at the very top—that’s basically impossible.
When profits reach your target, first get your principal back;
if it keeps rising, gradually reduce your position;
the remaining position follows the trend.
This way you can catch the move without getting taken for a ride by greed.
Second, use strict stop-losses.
Before every entry, think it through first:
How much am I allowed to lose at most?
When you reach your discipline level, leave immediately—no excuses for yourself.
The market always has another chance, but if your principal is gone, the next opportunity won’t wait for you.
Third, lower your expectations.
Many people don’t fail to make money—they make it, but they’re not satisfied.
They want to eat the very top, they want the entire wave of the market, and in the end all the profit gets returned to the market.
A truly mature trader doesn’t chase a perfect top; they only take the part that belongs to them.
After so many years trading crypto, I’ve seen too many people turn profit into loss. The problem is often not that the technique isn’t good—it’s that they never learned to control greed.
Only by protecting your principal and locking in profits can you stay in this market for longer.

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