The day I lost 2.6 million, a few more zeroes appeared in my account balance. The laughter nearly broke me.

During the LUNA crash, I started shorting at 50U. I turned 50,000 in capital into 40x and made a million. I got scared of a rebound and closed out—then it fell to 2U. I thought that was the bottom.

If it rebounded to 20, I’d make at least 30 million. I sold all the spot I’d bought with my profits, scraped together more money, and went all-in trying to buy the dip. I even uninstalled the app and went out, planning to check back in a month.

A week later, I got the itch to log in. The sky had fallen. The decimal point had moved left. Zero. I sat staring at the screen for half an hour, mind completely blank.

From that day on, I swore: I wouldn’t try to change my fate; I’d focus on staying alive. I sold my watch and investments, scraped together 20,000U, and started compounding. People said I was risking my life. What I had was discipline.

In six months, I turned 20,000 into over 3 million, following one set of ironclad rules. The first position was never more than 10%. If I was down $300, I cut immediately. Anyone who told me to wait might as well have been talking to a wall. I only compounded profits, withdrew my initial capital, and that way a blow-up wouldn’t hurt.

I only added to positions using profits. If the timing was wrong, I wouldn’t touch my initial capital. When it was up 15%, I moved my stop loss up 12%; if the trend broke, I got out.

I compounded through four waves on ETH. The first one made 900; then I added the profits and compounded them into 40x. What really broke me through the ceiling was TRB: I held from 10U to 300U. The longs paid funding 12 times that day.

A strong coin can sometimes double in an instant. Some I called out on the plaza in July went up 3x in just a few hours. CFX was a bit weaker: spot doubled in a day, and leverage made the numbers look even better—but you can lose everything even faster.

Why can’t you multiply your money? It’s not that you don’t know how to trade. You just can’t hold onto your profits. You panic as soon as you make a little, and bail at the first pullback. If you can’t grow your profits, turning your life around is just talk.

Remember: use profits to make more profits, and follow rules to stay alive. The crypto market doesn’t reward emotion; it rewards people who execute. Maybe you’re stuck at 20,000U, but opportunities aren’t the problem.

The question is whether you dare risk 10% on the first trade, and whether you’re willing to cut at a $300 loss.

For the rules and how to find strong coins, I’ve put it at @分析师刘总 . If you’re still buying dips all the way down or can’t hold onto profits, tell me in the comments which trade taught you a lesson. I’ll only talk about whether to hold or cut—not the next 100x coin.