Two years ago, I was also one of those sleepless retail investors.

My account balance plummeted from 320,000 all the way down to a debt of 380,000. Every day, I woke up feeling anxious. At my worst, I was staring at the candlestick charts at 3 a.m., my finger trembling over the order button. I could barely eat, lost a lot of weight, and my overall state was terrible.

After hitting rock bottom, I forced myself to stop trading for a month—no checking the charts, no trading at all. I did just one thing: went through my chat history and account statements to figure out exactly where I went wrong.

I ended up finding three fatal flaws: chasing pumps, going all-in without a backup plan, and having no rhythm or strategy. Later, I came up with a low-risk rolling position approach: testing with small positions, only adding more when the opportunity was highly certain, and sticking to just one trade per day.

There’s no magic, and I’m not some expert at picking coins. It’s just about controlling myself—grinding out a few hundred USDT a day. Once I got the rhythm right, I recovered my principal in three months and even doubled it. Now, I basically make over 10,000 USDT a day consistently—not every single day, but my mindset is completely different from before.

I’m not here to tell you to copy my trades or brag about my profits. I just want to be real with you:

The crypto market never lacks get-rich-quick opportunities. What it really lacks is people who survive long enough to see them.

If you’re still chasing pumps and panic selling, or trying to make it all back in one go after a loss, it means you’re just like I was—you haven’t figured out the real game yet.

Focus on surviving first. Everything else comes after.