Why do some people get liquidated of all their principal in just three months of trading contracts? It's not that the market is too harsh, but rather that they went the wrong way from the very first trade.

In 2017, I entered the market with 5000U, watching around me as people leveraged up, went all in, and faced liquidations, while my own account kept climbing. I never experienced that kind of "going back to square one" despair. The reason is simple —

I consider myself a landlord collecting rent, not a retail investor betting on wins and losses.

Today, I will lay out this set of survival rules that has been alive for eight years. If you can follow them, you can at least avoid 90% of fatal losses.

**Rule 1: Profits must be taken, and accounts must not go to zero**

For each of my trades, the take profit and stop loss have already been set in stone when opening the position. As long as the weekly profit exceeds 8%-12% of the principal, I will immediately transfer 40%-60% of the profits to the cold wallet, and use the remaining portion as "chips given away by the market" to continue rolling.

There are three benefits to doing this:

When the market is strong, profits generate more profits, and compound interest rolls like a snowball;
When the market hits hard, the most I'll give back is floating profit, while the principal remains untouched.
The account curve keeps climbing up, never having to start over.

Over the past few years, I have withdrawn more than 40 times. Once, I withdrew over 200,000 U in a single week, which directly triggered the platform's risk control. The customer service asked me to record a video to prove that it was me operating. If you can persist with this action for six months, you will have already surpassed the vast majority of people in the market.

**Article 2: Enter with reverse thinking, I take the profits where others get liquidated**

The market is in sideways consolidation 80% of the time, what does this mean?

Those who only gamble on price fluctuations will eventually be worn out.

I am watching three cycles at the same time:

Daily line to determine the overall direction;
4-hour range defined for fluctuations;
Find precise entry points in 15 minutes.

I often open the same coin.