After years of navigating the crypto world, you will encounter a phenomenon that is easily overlooked—most retail investors lose not because they lack effort, but because they initially chose the wrong direction.

Many beginners tend to fall into a thinking trap: "Research more, learn more, and you'll lose less." So they spend every day browsing news, analyzing KOLs, stacking indicator systems. EMA combined with RSI, plus MACD, then overlay funding rates and sentiment indicators—systems become increasingly complex, but the account ends up more and more depleted.

It looks like progress, but in reality, it's just using complexity to mask a lack of discipline. Today chasing AI narratives, tomorrow following MEME sentiment, the day after listening to "insider information," switching between 5 different coins and 3 different systems in a week. Claiming to "optimize strategies for perfection," but actually unwilling to admit previous mistakes. As a result, errors are spread out more evenly—seemingly less painful, but overall, it's just grass-cutting.

It took a trader several years to realize this: **90% of retail investors don't lose because they choose the wrong direction, but because they "have too many choices."**

He finally boiled down his entire trading logic to just three elements—

**First, focus on only one coin**

Choosing between BTC or ETH is enough. No chasing hot topics, no following narratives, no emotional farming. Ordinary retail investors lack informational advantages; the only thing they can rely on is **focus**. Watching the same coin for three months will give you a better understanding of its volatility than most.

**Second, follow the trend**

Go long when it’s rising, go short when it’s falling. No bottom fishing, no guessing tops, no betting on reversals. The market is the boss; you are just a worker. If the boss gives you a task, do it; if not, wait. Trends don’t require you to understand them thoroughly—just obey.

**Third, split your position to manage risk**

Use small positions as entry tickets, add to positions after confirmation, take profits when the trend extends, exit immediately if your judgment is wrong. **Structure determines destiny, not win rate**.

It sounds ridiculously simple, but executing it is shockingly stable.

A rookie fan last June started with a capital of 6,000 USDT, with no insider info, no heavy positions, no miraculous moves—just these three principles: follow the trend, wait for the right moment, and strictly adhere to discipline. In less than a month, 6,000 USDT turned into 21,000 USDT. This isn’t some trading miracle; it’s just **the result of disciplined compound interest**.

Many people ask how to start. The answer is: begin by abandoning complexity. Delete all those flashy indicators, return to the simplest trading logic. One coin, one direction, one set of position management rules.

Simplicity is not because of low level, but because it’s the shortest path to stability.