What’s it like for an #ETH走势分析 account to crash from 300,000 USDT to 10,000 USDT?



A trader I know from my WeChat Moments, Aqiang, went through this disaster last year. The night he got liquidated, he messaged me: “Is there any hope?”

I told him not to rush into any trades and to first organize his position records from the last three months. The results were clear as day—chasing pumps, panic selling, stubbornly holding onto losing positions, and emotionally adding to positions. Classic self-destructive trading.

Afterward, I set two hard rules for him:

**Risk Management Red Lines:**
• Loss hits 5% on a single trade? Stop trading for 3 hours immediately.
• Cumulative loss of 8% in a day? No trading allowed before the next day’s market open.
• Stop loss must be set outside key support/resistance levels; if profit hits 5%, immediately move stop loss to breakeven.

**Coin Selection Logic:**
• Allocate 5% of the portfolio specifically to small-cap potential projects.
• Only enter when BOTH conditions are met: on-chain whales are continuously accumulating + exchange circulating volume is consistently decreasing.
• If either signal is missing, pass immediately.

Sounds simple? Actually doing it is boring as hell. Every day it’s just drawing trend lines, marking key levels, setting price alerts—none of that overnight-get-rich thrill.

Five months later, the account balance grew to 150,000 USDT, with max drawdown kept under 5%. Aqiang told me, “Turns out making money isn’t about luck—it’s about self-control.”

The harshest truth in this market: The ones who survive are never the most aggressive, but the most disciplined.

Have you built your trading system? In $BTC ’s volatility, discipline is worth more than predictions.
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NonFungibleDegenvip
· 12-07 02:40
nah ser this is literally me except i never recovered lmaooo... discipline sounds fake but ig it's the only move that doesn't end in tears
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StakeOrRegretvip
· 12-06 19:21
300,000 dropped to 10,000... This guy really got schooled by the market, I genuinely feel bad for him. To put it bluntly, he just didn’t cut his losses and kept hoping for a rebound. Discipline does make money, but it’s easier said than done—most people just can’t do it. These rules sound rigid, but they really are the key to survival. What I’m most curious about is—can he really stick with it? Or will he get carried away again in five months?
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GamefiGreenievip
· 12-04 13:12
To be honest, I've seen a lot of cases where 300,000 drops to 10,000, but very few people can actually bounce back... Aqiang is one of the rare clear-minded ones. But I still have some doubts. Can a 5% drawdown rate really be consistently reproduced in this market? It feels like most of the time it's still about luck.
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RugResistantvip
· 12-04 08:41
Self-restraint is easy to talk about, but how many people can really stick to it... Every time I want to take a gamble, the result is always the same story: the account goes from 300,000 to 10,000.
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CryptoComedianvip
· 12-04 08:32
Turned 300,000 into 10,000—just how much can you mess around, seriously, this is killing me. Costs more than me playing games. Self-restraint is real, but I can't even last a week before I start itching to get back in. That's the real incurable disease.
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MemeEchoervip
· 12-04 08:32
300,000 down to 10,000... This is what happens when you don't set a stop loss. My friend went through the same thing once, and now just looking at the charts scares him. Forget about fancy systems, it all comes down to two words: stop loss. If you can't do that, nothing else matters. That rule about stopping for 3 hours after a 5% loss feels a bit rigid to me, depends on the market conditions. Self-control is definitely important, but this market is really a test of human nature. Most people simply can't stick to it. It sounds like he truly woke up. Turning 10,000 into 150,000 does require the right mindset. I've tried this logic too, but the problem is your brain melts when you actually try to execute it. Reviewing trades can be a lifesaver, that's true, but nobody really does it.
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MetaverseVagabondvip
· 12-04 08:32
From 300,000 to 10,000, this is truly a real and bloody lesson. So many people have ruined themselves like this.
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ChainComedianvip
· 12-04 08:19
300,000 dropped to 10,000... My brother went through that too. After reading this, I suddenly understand why he now stares at the candlestick charts every day.
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