2026-01-14 10:27:07

3 a.m. wake-up call from a phone call.

The caller is a female fan from Fujian, crying intensely, her voice trembling: "My 8000U... exploded..."

Trading with full position, opening long with 5x leverage, the market just had a slight pullback, and the account was wiped out. I asked her for a trading screenshot—7700U in a single trade, with no stop loss at all.

Many traders believe in this: full position = profit doubles. But opening the books reveals that full position actually pushes you to the brink of disaster.

Full position is like driving a malfunctioning car. Losing control of the steering wheel once, crashing into the wall is inevitable.

Interestingly, after a margin call, most people immediately blame the leverage multiple. But in reality, the real killer is never the multiple itself, but the excessively large position taken at once.

A comparison makes this clear:

With a 1000U account, using 950U to open a 5x position → market moves less than 6% in the opposite direction, and you're wiped out immediately.

The same 1000U principal, only using 100U to open a 5x position → it would take a move of over 80% to potentially lose everything.

Risk resistance is nearly 10 times worse.

The female fan’s problem isn’t the 5x leverage itself, but that she poured over 96% of her principal into the market at once. With such a position size, even a slight "breath" in the market can't be tolerated.

I've also suffered many losses over the years, and later developed three ironclad rules that kept my account drawdowns under control while still achieving a steady growth of over 70%.

These three rules are quite basic:

**Use only about 7% of total funds for each trade**

**Limit single losses to no more than 1% to 1.2% of total funds**

**Stay out of the market if the trend isn’t clear**

I don’t aim to make big money in one shot. I only take action when the daily chart pattern is formed, key levels are effectively broken, and volume gently increases.

A fan who analyzed the market with me followed these three rules for over four months, growing his account from 4000U to over 60,000U. He later told me something that left a deep impression: "I used to think full position was just gambling my life. Now I understand, true full position is an art of surviving longer."

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MetaMasked

· 9h ago

Full margin trading is really a poison. Seeing that guy's three iron rules makes me think of my own wild days.

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OldLeekNewSickle

· 9h ago

Damn, the 7700U went all-in without a stop-loss. How risky is that? Truly playing with fire. By the way, I've heard this set of logic many times, and every time someone believes it, and every time someone gets wrecked. The key is, why can't they just remember it? 7% position size, 1% stop-loss, basically just to survive longer. Invincible. It's another "stable growth of 70%", another "turning 4,000 into 60,000", just listen and consider it, brother. For reference only. Full position is just self-deception for gamblers; the question is, who doesn't want to go all-in, right?

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MEVHunterNoLoss

· 9h ago

Full position is just courting death, I've known that for a long time. The problem is that knowing and actually doing are two different things.

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GasFeeCryer

· 10h ago

Oh no, it's the story of going all-in again... There's always someone who refuses to believe in bad luck. A single sweep of 7700U directly hits zero, how brutal is that? It really hurts to watch. To be honest, leverage itself isn't the problem; the issue is when people go all-in with their brains turned off, that's the real deadly poison. These three rules aren't actually complicated, but the number of people who can truly stick to them is very few. Most just want to turn things around with one big move. From 4,000 to 60,000—that's what I call a steady way of life.

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