Woken up in the early morning by a life-threatening call, the voice of my buddy from Shenzhen came through the screen, sounding devastated:

"Buddy, help! I opened a 10x long position with 10,000 dollars, and the market only dropped 3 points, how did my account evaporate like that?!"
Pull out his position record, good buddy, 9500 dollars all in, stop loss line? Doesn't exist.
Too many people think that using the full position mode equals strong risk resistance, but the truth is quite the opposite—if the full position is used incorrectly, the losses can be even more severe than using the incremental position.
**Why do 95% of people treat full margin as a life-or-death issue?**
Let's do some calculations with a principal of 1000 dollars:
You invest 900 dollars with 10x leverage, and if the price of the coin moves against you by 5%, you will be wiped out.
But if you only invest 100 bucks with the same multiplier, the coin price would need to skyrocket by 50% in the opposite direction to get liquidated.
My buddy is a typical case—putting almost all his assets into a one-sided market, and with 10x leverage, a slight pullback triggered liquidation.
**I relied on these three tricks, and I haven't been liquidated in half a year with my entire position, plus I've doubled my investment.**
**Tip 1: Do not invest more than one-fifth of your total funds in a single transaction**
I have ten thousand dollars in hand, and I can throw in a maximum of two thousand dollars at a time.
Even if the direction is wrong and I stop loss at 10%, I would only lose 200 bucks, and the principal is still there, so there will be plenty of opportunities to make a comeback.
**Second Move: Lock the maximum drawdown of a single transaction within 3% of the total position**
For example, using $2000 with 10x leverage, setting a stop-loss order at 1.5% in advance, if triggered, would result in a loss of $300, which is exactly 3% of the entire account.
Repeated judgment errors several times will not harm the fundamentals.
**Third move: Do not take action in a sideways market, do not increase positions in a profitable state**
Only take certain opportunities after a trend breakout; no matter how attractive it is, resist the temptation during a sideways market.
Once the position is established, never add more; don't let emotions dictate your actions.
**The correct way to open a full position: leave it blank, not gamble your life**
The essence of the full margin mechanism is to provide a buffer for volatility, but the core premise is light position trial and error + strict risk control.
Previously, a buddy called Yueyue was forcibly liquidated. After strictly following this strategy, in three months, he rolled from $5000 to $8000.
He later told me: "I used to think that going all in was gambling with my life, but now I understand that going all in is to live more steadily."
The survival rule in the crypto market has never been about who earns the most, but rather about who can hold on until the end.
Gamble less on direction, manage positions more, slow is fast. $ETH $BTC