A fan came to Cat Brother with 700 USDT, saying their principal was too small to even think about making money—they only wanted to stop losing.

Cat Brother took a look at his trading history. It was basically the standard playbook of a retail trader: chasing when there’s a rally, averaging down when it drops a bit, and whenever the market chops around, the account starts shrinking.
Cat Brother didn’t tell him to switch any indicators, and he didn’t ask him to research complex strategies either. He only told him to first split up his 700 USDT.
For each trade, he would use only a small portion of the funds to test positions. He would only trade mainstream coins with active trading and a clear trend. If the market didn’t break out, he would wait patiently. When it went up, he wouldn’t chase—he’d wait for a pullback and confirmation before considering entry.
If the direction was right, he would lock in part of the profit first, and then keep following the trend with the rest. If the direction was wrong and it reached the stop-loss level, he would exit immediately—no adding to the position, no “die-holding.” He also wouldn’t use a new batch of funds to “save” the previous trade.
On his first trade, he only made a little over 20 USDT. And he still asked me: when would doing it this way be able to get his account going?
I told him that with small capital, the most important thing isn’t making money quickly—it’s proving that you won’t easily lose everything.
Later, he kept following this method. He didn’t increase his position size just because he had a few winning trades in a row. And he didn’t go chasing hot topics just because others were showing off massive profits.
After his account reached 3,000 USDT, he first withdrew the principal. After that, he kept compounding using profits. Even though his position size gradually grew, the risk he took on each trade never changed.
In the end, his account slowly climbed up to a five-figure balance.
Many people only see the results, but they don’t see how many impulsive trades he refused to take, or how many seemingly tempting opportunities he gave up.
Small capital isn’t something you can’t work with—it’s just that people are afraid of always thinking about one big reversal. The people who truly manage to build an account don’t compete on courage. They compete on who can repeat the right things by the rules, consistently.