#数字货币市场洞察 A lot of people ask me whether it’s actually possible to make money in the crypto market.

My answer is: yes, but only if you have a method that can actually survive.

Last year, I brought a friend into the market. He only had $1,800 in principal. To be honest, I didn’t have high hopes—I've seen too many stories of people blowing up their accounts in just three days. But three months later, his account balance stabilized around $80,000, and it’s still holding up to this day.

It wasn’t luck. It’s because he strictly followed a few hard rules that I figured out myself years ago.

Let’s talk about position sizing first.

A lot of people go all-in as soon as they enter. They get excited when the K-line rises, panic when there’s a pullback, and can’t handle normal volatility. I had him break up his $1,800 into three parts: $600 for quick in-and-out intraday trades—grab opportunities and run, no attachment; $600 for swing trades, only moving every 10-15 days, following the major trend; and the last $600 locked as a base position, to stabilize his emotions when things get rough.

You really need to break the habit of going all-in. If you don’t leave yourself any room to retreat, how can you even talk about making a profit?

Next is timing your trades.

Most of the time, this market is just moving sideways. Real directional trends might only make up 20% of the time. If you’re staring at the screen every day and trading frequently, you’ll just end up feeding your money to the exchange in fees and slippage. If you wait for a real trend before jumping in, your win rate and returns will be much higher.

His current trading habit is: whenever a single trade makes more than 20% profit, he takes out 30% of it and pockets it, holding the rest. This “locking in profits” move might look dumb, but it keeps you calm when a big pullback hits. The people who really make money aren’t those trading dozens of times a day, but those who mostly stay put and catch entire market moves when they act.

Finally, discipline.

Intelligence isn’t the key factor in this market—execution is. Every trade he makes follows three iron rules: cut the loss at 2%, no matter how painful it feels; when profits hit 4%, trim part of the position and turn floating profit into real cash; and absolutely never average down—90% of the time, averaging down comes from emotional breakdown, not rational strategy.

Controlling yourself sounds easy, but it’s actually really hard.

It took three months to go from $1,800 to $80,000.

It wasn’t because he’s some genius, or because the market was especially good. It was just repeating a simple set of rules dozens of times, until it became muscle memory.

Whether you can make money in crypto doesn’t really depend on the market. The key is whether you have a trading system that lets you “always survive”—how you size positions, when you act, how you protect profits, and when you absolutely have to cut your losses.

Until you have these things in place, don’t get ahead of yourself thinking about doubling your money.

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