On the road of trading, I prefer trading on the left side. But the lessons written in blood and tears have taught me that going heavy on the left is no different from walking a tightrope. Even if, every now and then, you correctly catch a chance to get rich, it’s definitely not a sustainable plan. The real way to survive is to “keep the left-side position light.” Set your stop-loss, and use a very small risk to go after a high risk-reward trade—your mindset will naturally stay steady. Every day, you only need to patiently wait for the position and place one or two trades. Trading is supposed to be like this: filter out the noise, and your days will feel lighter and more relaxed.

At the end of the day, trading is fundamentally a game of probabilities. Before entering a position, you must think through three questions: Where is the edge? Where is the defense line? Where is your take-profit target? Once you reach the entry point, if the price retraces or rises without breaking the most recent small structure, then you must decisively admit defeat and exit flat or with a small loss through position management.

Day trading is extremely draining—staring at the charts for ten-plus hours straight. If you try to start from a smaller timeframe to bet on a higher-timeframe move, then watching continuously for two or three days will simply be unbearable. So my current strategy is: to have both a high win rate and a good risk-reward, you have to learn to “wait to death.” If you don’t see the position, you don’t take the trade. Think back to the altcoin bull market—once you can read the big structure and pair it with a Martingale strategy, there aren’t actually that few people who truly made money. The iron rule for trading this kind of structural setup is: as long as the structure hasn’t broken, your stop-loss level will never budge.

Finally, let me share a practical small tip for right-side trading. What if you can’t find an ideal entry on the left, but the current price is extremely close to an upper strong resistance zone? At that moment, the stop-loss room is too large and you don’t know where to put it—what should you do? You can directly look at the 1-hour K-line from the high point, wait for it to break downward, and then place a short order above it. In that way, the stop-loss distance is naturally small. If you’re worried it won’t trigger, you can move it slightly lower, but the reference anchor for the stop-loss must still be the high point. Once you set the stop-loss and take-profit, you can trade calmly without needing to watch the screen. This trick works very well on the 1-hour timeframe. Sometimes you can also drop down to 5 minutes, 15 minutes, or even 1 minute—but the smaller the timeframe, the higher the experience requirement for the trader.

Protect your principal and stay true to your original intention—we’re here to make money, not to get harvested by some “dog-made” market makers. I’m the “cow feeder,” a seasoned old bull in the crypto circle. Welcome everyone to exchange ideas together. Wishing you all profits on every trade you make. May you fill your bowls to the brim.