If your account is under 500U, don’t rush in.
With small capital, the biggest fear isn’t having little principal—it’s always thinking the next trade will break the market. I once coached a guy who started with 400U and grew it to over 20,000U in a month and a half with zero liquidations, and it all came down to three hard rules:
Use your money in parts, don’t go all in. One portion for short-term trades—take profits and run; one portion waits for trends and news, and only acts when direction becomes clear; the rest stays locked up, that’s your final backup.
Only take profits you can understand. If there’s no trend, don’t force a trade; enter only when the direction is clear. Once you’ve made a certain return, pull out half first—only realized gains count as money.
Rules are tougher than emotions. Hit your stop loss and get out; when you’re up, reduce exposure first; when you’re down, don’t add. Admit it when you’re wrong—don’t try to reason with the market.
To grow 500U upward, it’s not about charging ahead hard, but about repeatedly executing small things like position splitting, stop loss, and reducing positions. Only those who survive have the right to wait for the wind to come. As long as your principal is still there, opportunities are always there; once the principal is gone, even a huge move in the market just means watching others make money.
Follow Boge—no bragging, no empty promises, just practical experience on how to survive in the game.