I’ve been in crypto for 8 years, and nothing was crazier than 2017.
Back then, I bought ADA at $0.03. In 3 months it pumped to $1.20 — almost 40× on my screen.
Every morning I’d wake up checking how many extra zeros I had. I even started thinking about buying a Porsche… but I didn’t sell.
Then it dropped back to $0.20.
80% of the profit vanished.
The Porsche turned into a second-hand BYD.
That moment taught me a lesson: buying is easy, selling is the real skill.
Over time, I developed a simple take-profit and stop-loss system that works well for normal people who don’t want to stare at charts all day.
✅ Take-Profit (TP)
I use a laddered take-profit strategy.
If a coin goes from $1 → $2, I take 30% out. My cost is recovered, no matter what happens next.
At $3, I take another 30%.
The last 40% follows a trailing TP — if the price drops 15% from the peak, it sells automatically.
This way you catch most of the uptrend without needing to be glued to the market.
❗ Stop-Loss (SL)
My hard rule: never let a single trade lose more than 5% of my capital.
If I put in $10,000, I’m out when the loss hits $500.
I always set a conditional stop-loss right after buying — like fastening a seatbelt.
Opportunities will always come back. Capital won’t.
📉 A counterintuitive trick
I lowered my expectations.
Trying to sell at the exact top makes people miss their best exits.
Now I’m happy catching the “body” of the move and leaving the “tail” for others.
That mindset alone helped me earn a steady 35% this year.
💬 Final Thoughts
In the last decade, I’ve seen many “overnight success” stories — and even more people lose everything by riding every pump and dump.
Real winners are the ones who follow their rules like machines.
I once stopped out of a coin and watched it double. My friends laughed.
Three months later, that coin went to zero.
No regrets.
Staying alive in crypto is more important than aiming for fast money.
Before, I was walking in the dark.
Now, I walk with a light in my hand.
