Having been involved in the crypto market for 5 years, I want to share a harsh truth: most small account traders lose money not because the market is bad, but because they trade too frequently.

I still remember myself three years ago—staring at candlestick charts every day, unable to sleep at 3 a.m., with my heartbeat racing at a 1% price move. During that period, I would make up to 8 trades a day. And the result? My $10,000 capital shrank to $3,000 in just three months. A massive liquidation after a sudden ETH plunge woke me up: the market is best at harvesting traders who can't sit still.

The turning point came afterward. I set three strict rules for myself, and eventually grew my $10,000 to $75,000—doing only 4 trades in half a year.

**Rule 1: Only chase "structural opportunities"; all other volatility is noise**
99% of daily market fluctuations have no trading value. My entry criteria are very strict: only when BTC or ETH stabilizes above key moving averages (at the yearly level), and after three consecutive days of volume confirmation, will I consider acting. More importantly, I wait for a pullback after a breakout—for example, when ETH dropped from 2200 to 2150, confirming that support was not broken, I would then decisively enter. The trade I made in November last year earned $2,700 in just 8 hours—these high-probability opportunities have an over 80% success rate.

**Rule 2: The risk-reward ratio must be at least 2:1; if the opportunity is marginal, better to skip**
The secret to turning small money around is "earn enough in one trade to cover two losses." I keep my stop-losses very tight on each trade, so even if I have a series of losses, I won't be wiped out.