There is an interesting phenomenon in the crypto world: most retail investors are obsessed with finding a "high win rate" strategy, unaware that some top traders have win rates below 25% but achieve financial freedom through completely opposite logic.

Recently, I uncovered the trading record of a Swedish trading master. This guy turned $9,000 into $140 million over five years. The most shocking thing isn’t the number itself, but the "counter-human" methodology behind it — it has no complex indicators, a win rate of only 25% (losing 7 out of 10 trades), yet manages to profit continuously through the cyclical bull and bear markets in crypto.

**What are retail investors being fooled by?**

Ninety percent of people in crypto are making the same mistake: obsessing over win rate metrics and celebrating wildly. "My strategy has a 70% win rate, guaranteed profit!" you hear this every day in chat groups. But this master’s logic is completely opposite — he closes 75% of his trades with stop-losses, relying only on the remaining 25% of "big wins" to turn the tide.

How does he do it? The key is that he never focuses on "how many times he wins," but instead on "how long he can survive and how aggressively he can earn." These two seemingly contradictory pursuits are unified through proper risk control systems.

**The survival mantra: three ironclad rules**

The first and most crucial rule is — risk management is 1, everything else is 0.

He once said a piercing truth: "In crypto, it’s not about who makes money faster, but who can survive until the next bull market." This exposes many people’s problems. The volatility in crypto is inherent to the game — 20%+ drops are common, futures liquidations and altcoin zeroing are daily routines. In such an environment, limiting a single stop-loss to no more than 1-2% of the principal becomes a lifesaver.

Imagine this: even if Bitcoin drops from $60,000 to $30,000 in an extreme scenario, losing 10 trades in a row would only shrink the account by 20%. But traders without discipline? One or two misjudgments could lead to liquidation. Survival itself is the greatest advantage.

The second rule is trend thinking. Don’t be scared by short-term fluctuations; every market movement is a process of filtering for the persistent. True profits come from holding positions across multiple cycles — which explains why a 25% win rate can still generate enormous gains.

The third rule is patience for "big trades." Most people trade frequently and exit with small profits. This master is different — he will cut losses repeatedly, but when a real opportunity appears — such as a signal of a coin bottoming in a bear market or a market structure reversal — he will deploy accumulated risk buffers, making a single successful bet offset all previous losses and even multiply profits.

**Why can’t retail investors do this?**

Psychologically, humans are naturally averse to losses. After three or five consecutive stop-losses, most start doubting themselves and adjusting strategies. But that’s precisely the moment to persist. Comparing to this master’s approach, his early losses might be continuous, but once the big trend confirms and a major move occurs, the gains from that wave are enough to make all previous patience worthwhile.

In execution, strict 1-2% stop-loss discipline sounds simple but is rarely practiced. When you are confident about a coin and have already lost 8%, sticking to a 2% stop-loss requires strong mental resilience.

But data doesn’t lie: the growth curve from $9,000 to $140 million over five years is the best proof of this methodology. This isn’t a get-rich-quick story but a result accumulated through proper risk management, patience, and sensitivity to big trends, cycle after cycle.

The crypto world isn’t short of opportunities; what’s missing are traders who can stay alive long enough to seize those opportunities.