#加密生态动态追踪 $ETH, $SOL, $BTC——Stop just watching the charts and blindly trading

I know a guy. Ever since he saw me making some money trading crypto, he got the itch. Dropped 20,000 USD in, decided to try it himself.

The result? After two months, his account was only left with 3,500 USD.

The craziest part was that $SOL trade — he didn’t buy in at 150 USD, watched it rise to 180 USD, and then someone in the group was shouting "Breaking 200 USD, for sure," impulsively he went all-in. The same day, it dropped back to 165 USD, and he cut 2,300 USD in losses. Then he followed a meme coin trend, got cut in half in three days, and his account exploded.

He came to complain to me, and I just told him one thing: "Don’t make a move without clear signals."

The core issue isn’t the market itself but that his trading relies purely on gut feeling, emotional to the extreme. Every rise and fall he wants to gamble on — that’s the path most retail traders lose money.

But there’s an even more painful point — buy and sell signals must be set by yourself.

I use Bollinger Bands + volume to judge: buy when $BTC breaks below the lower band with increased volume, sell when it hits the upper band with reduced volume, strictly set stop-loss at 3%, take-profit at 8-10%. I’ve used this logic for half a year — not the most profitable, but the most sustainable.

His situation is different; with a smaller capital and weaker risk tolerance, I advised him to adopt a conservative approach: only trade mainstream coins, wait for a pullback over 5% before entering, take profits at 7%, and never allocate more than 20% of a single position.

He spent a whole week reviewing his previous losing trades, finally understanding why he kept taking hits. Then he developed his own buy/sell logic.

This month, he only made 6 trades — 4 profitable, 2 stopped out, net profit of 2,600 USD. His mindset also stabilized.

Last week, when $ETH pulled back to 1900 USD, he followed signals with a small position, and when it reached 1995 USD, he sold decisively, earning 4.5%. He even sent me a message to share the good news — that was the most calm I’ve ever seen him.

The current market is unpredictable, big swings are normal, intraday volatility is insane. If you can't control your emotions, you’ll easily be manipulated by every single candle on the chart.

Real progress never comes from staring at the screen looking for opportunities, but from first establishing a trading discipline that suits you and then sticking to it stubbornly. Don’t always think you’re smarter than the market — just by following simple rules like "only act on signals," and not letting the ups and downs drag you around, you’ve already surpassed most retail traders.

Rules, discipline, execution — these three things are worth more than anything else.