When I first started trading contracts, I was just like all the newcomers,
sticking to that set of mythologized teachings in the forum: "Fixed 3% Stop Loss" doctrine.
The group shouted loudly: "Stable! Scientific! Won't blow up!"
I believed it too, thinking that treating this rule like a talisman would keep me safe from the market. Until reality slapped me in the face.
The 2020 surge in ETH prices directly woke me up; during that time, ETH’s volatility was like being possessed by a demon: soaring 5% in the morning, crashing 8% at noon, and then instantly bouncing back at night.
What about my so-called 3% stop loss line?
It was like drawing a defense line in the sand at the beach, washed away by a wave. I just got swept out in the morning, and in the afternoon, the K-line took off like a rocket.
After three stop losses in one day, the transaction fees could make me curse! I lost 20% of my capital and 200% of my mindset.
At that time, I truly understood: stop loss is not a numbers game; it is a rhythm game. The market is alive, and if you use dead rules, you will only be bitten by the living market.
Later, I began to genuinely enter a "professional perspective"; I no longer crashed around blindly nor blindly trusted doctrines. I started studying volatility, rhythm, and strength transitions...
Finally, I understood a key truth: stop loss is not for the market to see, but for my own rhythm.
The market changes every day; a fixed stop loss is like measuring waves with a ruler or timing a storm with a stopwatch: destined to be knocked down.
So I changed my mindset, learning to let the stop loss "move with the market." When volatility is high, I let the stop loss breathe more;
when volatility is low, I let the stop loss stick closer to the rhythm.
As a result, a magical change occurred: fake spikes couldn’t catch me anymore; washouts no longer swept me away;
when the trend truly kicks off, I can steadily capture the entire segment of the market!
While others are shaken, jumping in and out, I remain as steady as a fisherman sitting by the river, watching profits slowly flow into my account.
The core of trading contracts has never been courage or skill, but rather: a sense of rhythm.
The market is always changing; only those whose strategies continuously evolve can avoid being harvested, survive the washouts, and seize the real big waves.
The most ironic truth in this industry is: the stricter you hold onto doctrines, the more the market buries you. The more you learn to dance with the market, the easier it is to survive until the end.
Those who can survive until the end are always the ones who "understand the changes and keep the right rhythm!"
