I stared at the remaining $1246 in my account and gave myself a hard slap. This is the hard-earned money from three years of working on the factory assembly line tightening screws.

On that rainy night in 2018, I curled up in my rented room, continuously refreshing the trading page, unable to stop. In just twelve days, half a year's salary was reduced to nothing. I barely ate a few bites of instant noodles before throwing them up; all I could think about was how to tell my family.

At that time, my monthly salary was five thousand yuan, which was originally meant for repairing the roof back home. Brainwashed by the story of "doubling overnight" in the crypto world, I believed a stranger's claim that a certain small coin "has big capital behind it," and jumped in without even looking at the white paper. The market's response was a heavy blow.

It has been eight years. From being cut to a bloody "chives", I have become a veteran who can steadily earn over ten thousand a month. Today, I will unveil my trading system; these four rules, earned with real money, may help you avoid some detours.

**Rule 1: Only focus on targets created from substantial funds, and avoid those junk coins.**

In 2019, I was still deceived. A certain coin dropped from $10 to $3, and I slapped my thigh and shouted, "Isn't it cheap to buy the dip?" As a result, after throwing in my remaining capital, it continued to drop to $1.5. I completely became a "long-term shareholder," even switching from ten-dollar cigarettes to five-dollar ones.

Later I understood: in the crypto market, cheap does not come from a drop, but is piled up by funds. A junk coin is still junk no matter how cheap it is, while a coin bought by large funds can rise even if it's expensive.

My screening logic is quite straightforward: I only look at the top performers in terms of growth over the past 7 days.