To be honest, in the crypto world, nine out of ten retail investors are losing money, and the remaining one? Still struggling on the road to recoup investment. Do you think it's the market that doesn't provide opportunities? Wrong, most of the time it's because you dug your own pit and then jumped in without hesitation.

I have been in this market for ten years. In the early years, I lost most of my principal due to chasing highs and selling lows, but now I am steadily profitable using a seemingly clumsy method. The pitfalls I've encountered could fill a book if I wrote them down. Today, I want to share some real experiences with you, all hard-earned lessons bought with real money.

In the first few years of entering the market, I was a typical retail investor. Watching others' coins double in a few days made me anxious, always feeling like "if I wait one more second, I'll miss out on a fortune." What was the result? Chasing highs led to being trapped, cutting losses during rebounds, and my capital plummeted like a roller coaster. It was only later that I realized: to survive in this market with small funds, it's not about being "fast," but about "waiting."

Stop thinking about operating with a full position all day, trying to catch every fluctuation. That's just giving fees to the platform and acting as an ATM for the big investors. Accurately capturing the main uptrend two or three times a year and fully understanding a segment of profit is enough. Remember, slow is fast.

I have seen too many newcomers who can't even understand candlestick charts but dare to go all-in. Treating real trading like a demo account? You can restart a demo account if you lose, but making a mistake in real trading might lead to being completely out, leaving you without even the principal to make a comeback. This is the most basic risk awareness.

In trading, the ones who truly make money are never the ones who operate frequently, but those who understand how to wait and dare to exercise restraint. The market is always there, and opportunities are always present, but if you lose all your capital, you will be completely out of the game.