Many people ask me why I can stay alive this long without getting wiped out. The secret is simple—don't bet all your chips on a single card.

I've seen too many cases where large accounts lose so much they can't sleep. It looks like their accounts have hundreds of thousands of U, but in reality, their mentality collapses faster than retail traders. Why? Because once that money shrinks, there's no more bullets to turn things around. So the most important thing is not how much you make, but simply staying alive, alive, alive.

**Divide your funds into pieces, like slicing a cake into three parts**

Suppose you have 700U. Don't put it all in at once. Splitting it into three separate accounts is much better.

The short-term portion, check for opportunities 1-2 times a day. Making 5%-10% profit and then stopping is enough. For a 700U short-term position, take profits over 70U immediately and put the principal back in your pocket. What's the benefit of doing this? You never experience a large drawdown, and your mentality stays steady. Many people get ruined by the words "wait a bit longer."

The trend-following portion requires patience. Only act when the weekly chart shows a clear direction—for example, when the moving average breaks upward and volume increases, confirming a trend. No signals, no action. During choppy markets, stay out. Many of my losses come from this—getting repeatedly slapped in non-mainstream markets.

The backup fund is the third part and the most critical. This money stays idle most of the time, only to be used if you really get wiped out that day. Don't get greedy and pour all your money into a position to cover losses; that last wave of counter-trend movement can wipe you out completely.

The core logic is just one sentence: surviving in this circle is a thousand times more important than making quick money. The purpose of splitting funds is to always have something to play with, never letting a single trade decide your fate.

**Only focus on the middle part, don’t be greedy and try to eat from start to finish**

When the market starts moving, many people's common mistake is wanting to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. But in reality? Most people can't buy at the bottom or sell at the top. Instead, they end up losing the most by repeatedly chasing highs and selling lows.

Here's my approach:

Wait until the daily moving averages form a bullish alignment (for example, the 9-period and 21-period exponential moving averages cross upward), and at the same time, the price breaks out above previous highs with increased volume—that's a real trend confirmation. Only then do I enter.

Once in, take profits equal to 30% of the principal and start reducing positions gradually. For a 700U position, if you make 210U, first transfer half of the profit (105U) out to your trading account, and leave the rest with a trailing stop (for example, close automatically if the price retraces 10%). Why do this? Because you've already locked in profits, and what's left is just using those profits to gamble. Your mentality is completely different.

What's the benefit? When the market continues to go up, you can still follow along, but you'll never lose money. Where's the top? Nobody knows. But you know when to stop.

Many retail traders blame their failures on "bad market" or "insufficient skills," but the real reason is often this—poor fund management, losing control of their mentality. They see a position go from earning 1000U to retracing to a 500U loss and still refuse to exit.

Crypto isn't a sprint; it's a marathon. Either you learn to diversify risk, protect your principal, and be content, or one day you'll die from greed.