The harshest truth in the crypto market: 90% of people don’t lose to the market, they lose to themselves

I’ve seen too many stories like this. An account drops from 20,000 to 3,000, then after getting liquidated, they borrow money to add more, and in the end, can’t even recover their principal. But I’ve also seen people turn 5,000 into nearly 50,000 in three months, turning debt into profit—the difference isn’t luck, it’s whether you have a set of rules to control your actions.

Making money isn’t about guessing the ups and downs

There’s a common illusion in the market: if you study hard enough, you can predict the tops and bottoms. Nonsense.

The people who actually survive do these three things:

• Only act when it’s time. Stay in cash if there’s no signal, don’t get itchy and open trades randomly that eat up your capital
• Spend most of the time waiting. 70% of the time, do nothing—like a wolf watching its prey, you don’t need to pounce at every heartbeat
• Cut losses immediately. Never lose more than 2% on a single trade, never stubbornly hold on, never gamble on a reversal

Don’t fight your emotions—you can’t win

The market is best at teaching a lesson to those who don’t listen:

• Those who go all-in get wiped out by one flash crash
• Those who stubbornly hold on are always fantasizing, “If I just wait a bit longer, I’ll break even”
• Those who follow the rules, take small losses and let profits grow slowly with compounding

During that last ETH catch-up rally, someone made 18,000 from 3,000—not because he was a genius, but because he simply followed “enter on breakout + take profit on floating gains.” No tricks, just sticking to the plan.

If you’re also tired of the cycle of liquidation–reload–liquidation, and want to try replacing feelings with a system, maybe we’ll get along. The market won’t stop for anyone—the only thing that makes a difference is action, not watching from the sidelines.