20,000 yuan principal turned into a loss of 1,200U in just three months. That night, I stared at my account balance—in all honesty, I really wanted to just uninstall the app and call it quits.

Later, I forced myself to review every single loss, and managed to come up with 7 survival rules—relying on the remaining 1,200U, I managed to grow it to 280,000U in half a year. It wasn’t just luck; I finally figured out a few key things.

Each of these 7 rules was learned the hard way:

**1. Don’t act if you don’t understand the market**
There are opportunities everywhere in crypto, but even more traps. Jumping in when the signals aren’t clear is basically giving money away. It’s better to sit out ten times than to blow up your account by stepping into a deep pit once.

**2. Make quick money with trending coins, don’t get attached**
Some coins skyrocket out of nowhere and the gains are real. But when they drop, they drop even harder. Set your take-profit and stop-loss lines in advance, and get out as soon as the hype fades. Don’t just watch your unrealized gains turn into bags at the top.

**3. When the market surges, just hold on**
When the candlesticks open high and trading volume explodes, that’s the trend coming in. The worst thing here is to get itchy hands and overtrade. You need to withstand short-term volatility to capture the full move.

**4. When you see huge bullish candles, exit in batches**
Whether it’s a high or low point, a huge bullish candle often means whales are unloading. Sell in batches to lock in profits—if you get too greedy and wait just a few more minutes, those profits might vanish.

**5. Moving averages are a retail trader’s compass**
Keep a close eye on daily support and resistance levels, and turn over positions every 3–7 days. Enter on golden crosses, exit on death crosses—let the data guide you, not your gut.

**6. Follow the trend, not your emotions**
Hold as long as the uptrend isn’t broken; only start bottom-fishing in batches once the downtrend stabilizes. Chasing pumps and dumps gets you wrecked nine times out of ten.

**7. Never go all-in, build positions in batches**
Going all-in feels great when it works, but most likely you’ll get wiped out. Enter in batches to average your cost, always set a stop-loss for each position, and use small losses to chase big gains.

In crypto, you make money if you have the right knowledge; if not, you’re just here to hand out money. Many people are stuck in a cycle of winning and losing—not because they’re not working hard, but because no one has helped them break through that barrier of understanding.

There are market movements every day, but opportunities won’t wait. Figuring out your direction is a thousand times more important than charging in blindly.