Around 5 PM on December 5th, the new price of ETH is 3159.15U. Old Yang is staring at the figure of 63200U in his account, pinching himself.

After experiencing the market crash on “Black Monday” on December 1st, this string of numbers is particularly eye-catching.

Three months ago, he was haggling with a vendor at the vegetable market over two dimes because he had lost all his daughter's formula money from his first three attempts at trading cryptocurrencies.

The worst time was in September when he listened to a “big shot” recommending a coin and went all in with 5000U to buy a new coin. As a result, within 48 hours the project team ran away, and he couldn’t sleep at night, tossing and turning, while his wife smashed his phone on the ground: “If you gamble again, I’ll divorce you.”

With only 2000U left in hand, he divided it into 5 parts, with each transaction having a maximum of 400U.

In mid-October, SOL suddenly surged, at that time its price was racing from 120U to 150U, and everyone in the group was shouting “Go all in.”

Old Yang was sweating as he stared at the screen, but in the end, he pressed the exit button.

That evening, influenced by signals from the Federal Reserve's policy, SOL plummeted by 32%, crashing back to 98U. He sent a “relieved” emoji in the group, and no one laughed at him for being timid anymore.

He set his stop-loss and take-profit lines as his phone wallpaper: if a single loss exceeds 3% (12U), he would cut it immediately; if he made a profit of 6% (24U), he would sell half first, and the rest would depend on the situation to aim for 10% (40U).

Once, when his ADA holdings rose by 9%, the price of ADA had just broken through 0.45U, and the monthly gain had reached 18.5%. A friend advised him to wait a bit longer, but he decisively cleared his remaining position, not expecting that the next day it would correct due to signals of interest rate hikes from the Bank of Japan, and his friend ended up getting trapped.

Looking through his trading records, in 3 months he made 217 trades, with a success rate of 62%, which isn’t dazzling, but the account book is very clear: 84 losing trades totaled only 991.2U, while 133 profitable trades made 6330.8U.

With such a “small losses and large gains” compound interest strategy, by the end of November, his account surged from 18,000U to over 60,000U, and he first withdrew 20,000U to pay off previous debts.

I have seen too many retail investors in the crypto space, pouring all in during a surge,

stuck in losses, holding on stubbornly, panicking to sell when they make a little profit, and reluctant to cut losses when they are down; Old Yang used to be like that too.

But the smartest thing about him is that he turned emotional “gambling” into disciplined “trading.”

Don’t think that having a few thousand U means there’s no hope. Old Yang proved with 2000U that,

with the wrong method, even 100,000U can be lost;

with the right logic, small funds can also turn things around.

It’s never too late to change—

this over 60,000U is the most concrete answer.

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