A blunt truth for newcomers just entering the space: Contracts are not casinos, they are battlegrounds.

I have seen too many people rush in with just a few thousand yuan, eyes shining with the glow of "getting rich quickly," filled with dreams of "doubling" their money. As a result, after just three days, the light goes out, the dreams shatter, accounts are wiped clean, and even faith is lost along with the liquidation.

I was once one of them.

That year, I only had 5000U in my account. I opened a 100x leverage for the first time and lost half in just 15 minutes. My palms sweat, but my heartbeat strangely remained calm — that was not calmness, that was complete confusion. It was at that moment I realized: liquidation is not an accident, but a "welcome gift" that high leverage trading offers to beginners.

Leverage amplifies not only gains but also risks; frequent trading may seem diligent, but in reality, you're working for the exchange; losing 90% and needing ten times the effort to break even — that’s not recovery, that’s building a rocket.

To survive, the first step is not to learn how to make money, but to learn how to "not die."

What truly made my account curve start trending upward was not some "divine stroke of genius," but a "survival system" built with real losses.

For example, the BOLL indicator — many people only know the surface phenomenon of "opening and closing the mouth," but no one tells you it actually reflects the market's "breathing rhythm." The closing indicates volatility compression, the market is gathering strength; the middle line direction shows who has the upper hand in the bulls and bears; the opening with volume expansion signals a burst of momentum — that’s the time to act.

Last October, I watched SOL's daily chart close 7 times, with the middle line slightly upward. I built a position near the lower band, with a stop-loss set at the low point before the close. As a result, a big bullish candle shot straight to the upper band, yielding 30 times profit in a single month.

It’s not that I am particularly talented, but that the system turned chaotic market conditions into probabilistic events.

But even the sharpest system cannot eliminate human itchiness. So I set three iron rules for myself, posted beside my screen, unbreakable:

First, never lose more than 2% of total capital on a single trade; second, do not open more than 2 positions per day; third, after a 50% unrealized profit, immediately move the stop-loss up to protect the principal — preserving capital always comes first.

Does it sound conservative? Actually, it’s about embedding the goal of "staying alive" into the trading strategy.

Contracts are indeed the fastest track for ordinary people to overtake on curves, but you must remember one principle: trading based on feelings hands the steering wheel over to emotions; using systematic trading is how you hold your destiny in your own hands.

If you are still stumbling around in the crypto space, it might be time to try a different approach.