The day I tossed 800U into my account, the chat box was full of mocking internet memes. Someone said this amount of principal isn't even enough to cover the fees, but I couldn't be bothered to respond and just muted the messages.

I have a clear calculation in my mind - treat this money as four lives, each worth 200U. If one life is lost, I will stop and never chase after it. I have a few notes stuck up beside my computer screen, with some hard rules written on them: only trade mainstream coins like BTC and ETH, cut losses at 3%, set profit-taking at 6%, and run when it hits; only add more when I'm in profit, pull back when I’m in loss; I must shut down my computer by 11 PM, staring at the screen until dawn is something foolish people do.

The first two weeks were like delivering food, grabbing a few dozen U and then pulling out. 800 slowly rose to 880, and then it crawled up to 1000. The jokes about me in the group never stopped, but I didn’t say a word; I just separated the profits I earned and kept myself a little more alive. From four health bars to five, my mindset actually stabilized.

In the third week, Bitcoin's daily line suddenly surged above the 30-day moving average, and I knew the opportunity had arrived. I invested the 400U profit all at once, keeping the stop loss at 3% and raising the take profit to 12%. Four days later, I woke up in the morning to see that my account had broken 1600 for the first time! Without saying a word, I transferred 800U of my principal into a hardware wallet and told myself: every penny I earn from now on is free money.

After securing my principal, I became even more cautious. I split the remaining 1600 into three parts: 60% continues to do short-term trading, 30% waits for a weekly pullback, and 10% is kept for transaction fees. During those two months, I didn't miss out on three waves of market movements: the anticipation of Ethereum upgrades, the hype around ETFs, and Solana's sudden surge. My profits snowballed, going from 1600 to 3600, and then to 7200. I took out 800 from my cold wallet and bought a second-hand monitor, which I consider my first bonus.

After my account surpassed ten thousand, I raised the single position limit to 20%, but added a safety rule: if the daily drawdown reaches 5%, I will immediately cut half of the position. Later, when the Federal Reserve took a hawkish stance and the exchange experienced a flash crash, I managed to avoid big losses twice thanks to this rule.

In the early hours of March 14, 2024, the account balance was fixed at 160000U. I took a screenshot and threw it into a group I had long since left, paired with a phrase: "Isn't it enough?" No one replied in the message box, but my private messages exploded instantly.

Looking back, there are three rules: a single loss should not exceed 2% of total funds, and the additional position should not exceed half of the last profit; do not act if any of the three conditions are missing: daily line breakout + increased trading volume + mainstream currencies; look for divergence signals in 5 minutes, confirm in 15 minutes, and establish the range in 1 hour before entering.