Ask a heart-wrenching question: Before you place an order, do you clearly know what percentage of your total capital you will lose if this order is wrong?
If the answer is 'I don't know' or 'it depends', then your trading is essentially no different from flipping a coin; liquidation is just a matter of time. Emotional trading, getting carried away, cutting losses at the floor, and liquidation at the ceiling... all tragedies stem from this.
In the 'Whale Club', our first lesson is not to teach you how to make money, but to teach you how to scientifically lose money. Because only by plugging the leaks can profits flow in naturally.
The first iron rule of whale trading: Set a stop-loss before placing an order; controllable losses give you confidence.
All anxiety comes from unknown risks. If you clearly know: 'This 10,000 U can lose at most 400 U,' would you still panic? No. Because this is within your plan, it is a necessary 'trial and error cost.'
How to set a stop-loss? We provide two standards:
Trend following (high win rate strategy): Use the 'previous high and low stop-loss method' combined with your risk threshold (high risk 3%, balanced 2%, conservative 1.5%).
Countertrend sniping (high profit-loss ratio strategy): Use the 'fixed percentage stop-loss method' (e.g., 0.7%, 0.5%), simple and straightforward, easy to execute.
The second iron rule: Take profits in segments, never let yourself turn from profit to loss.
This is counterintuitive but extremely effective. Our mantra is: 'Lock in half the profits and immediately secure the principal.'
High risk: 1% floating profit, close half the position, move the stop-loss for the remaining half to the cost price.
Balanced: 0.8% floating profit, execute the same operation.
From now on, this trade is independent of your cost; the remaining position is pure profit running. When you catch a big trend, you earn more; if the trend fluctuates, you at least have half the profit in hand. This achieves a 'zero risk pattern within a day.'
The third iron rule: Position size and leverage are amplifiers of risk factors.
Knowing the stop-loss amount for a single trade allows you to backtrack the position size. Classic configuration:
Using 3x leverage, with a 3% stop-loss, single trade risk exposure ≈ 9%
Using 2x leverage, with a 2% stop-loss, single trade risk exposure ≈ 4%
Using 1.5x leverage, with a 1.5% stop-loss, single trade risk exposure ≈ 2.25%
Do you see? Everything is interconnected and calculable. Your fear comes from a 9% unknown loss; when it becomes a planned 2.25% known cost, the mindset is completely different.
Why can this framework make money? The mathematical expectation is positive.
All our parameter settings ultimately aim for one goal: to make the mathematical expectation of the trading system positive.
High win rate strategy (trend following): Win rate 70%+, profit-loss ratio may be less than 1:1, but it wins through frequency and win rate.
High profit-loss ratio strategy (countertrend): Win rate may only be 45%-55%, but one profit can cover multiple losses.
Consistently executing a 'positive expectation' system will inevitably lead to profit. Trading is no longer a mystery but mathematics and probability.
Summary:
From today, please change your mindset. You are not 'predicting the market,' but 'managing the curve of risk and return.' Before placing an order, calculate your maximum loss A, expected profit B, and win rate C based on historical data. If looking long-term (BC) > (A(1-C)), then execute decisively.
When a trader starts using a calculator instead of intuition, they are not far from stable profits. The path of the whale begins with risk control.
Users with over 5000 U can join the whale camp! Focus on the mainstream and grow together!
