My name is Ge. When I entered the market in 2017 with $5,000, some people around me ended up liquidated on contracts and even had to mortgage their houses, but my account curve has always been rising at a 45° angle—over the past five years, my principal has never retraced more than 8%.

I don’t rely on insider information, airdrops, or believe in those K-line mysticisms. My core approach is actually very simple: treat the market as a gambling machine, and be the casino boss yourself. Today, I’ll share three core methods that have kept me alive until now.

**First Trick: Lock in profits and compound, armor your gains**

As soon as I open a position, I set take-profit and stop-loss orders simultaneously. Once profits reach 10% of the principal, I immediately transfer 50% to a cold wallet, and use the remaining "free money" to continue rolling the position. The benefit of this is: if the market continues to rise, I enjoy the compound effect; but if the market moves against me, I’ll only give back at most half of the profits, keeping the principal highly safe. Over these five years, I’ve taken profits 37 times, with the largest single weekly withdrawal reaching $180,000. The exchange’s customer service even contacted me via video call, suspecting I was laundering money.

**Second Trick: Displaced position building, using the “leek” liquidation points as signposts**

Simultaneously monitor three timeframes—daily for the big trend, 4-hour for the consolidation range, and 15-minute for precise entry points. For the same coin, I open two orders: Order A追多 (chasing longs) when breaking key levels, with a stop-loss set at the previous low on the daily chart; Order B埋伏空 (laying in shorts) with limit orders in the 4-hour overbought zone. Both orders’ stop-losses are strictly controlled within 1.5% of the principal, and take-profits are set at over 5 times.

You must understand that 80% of the market time is spent oscillating back and forth. While others get liquidated here, I can profit from both directions simultaneously. Remember the Luna crash in 2022? The market plunged 90% in 24 hours—yet I profited 42% in a single day by using both long and short take-profit orders.

**Third Trick: Stop-loss equals explosive profit—trade big with small injuries**

This is the most counterintuitive. I treat stop-loss as the entry ticket cost, using a small risk of 1.5% to gain a layout opportunity comparable to a whale. When the market moves favorably, I move the take-profit to let profits run; if the market reverses, I close quickly. Over the long term, my win rate is actually only 38%—sounds low, right? But that’s not important. The key is my profit-to-loss ratio has reached 4.8:1, with a mathematical expectancy of +1.9%. In other words, for every 1 dollar risked, I can reliably earn 1 dollar 9 cents. Just catching two real trend waves a year can yield returns far exceeding bank savings.

**Three essential details to remember in live trading:**

Divide your capital into ten parts; any single trade can only use one part. Never hold more than three positions at once. If I suffer two consecutive losses, I force myself to shut down and go to the gym—never revenge trade. The last point is crucial: every time my account doubles, I take out 20% to buy US bonds or gold. Even if a bear market arrives, I can withstand the psychological pressure.

This method sounds simple in theory but is extremely counterhuman in execution. But remember one thing: the market doesn’t fear you making wrong decisions; it fears you can’t recover after a liquidation.