#数字资产生态回暖 Perpetual Contract Beginner’s Survival Guide: Four Bottom Lines to Keep You Alive and Making Money

What are the biggest fears in contract trading? One-night liquidation. How to avoid it? Understand these four lines, and your chances of survival can go from 10% to 80%.

**First: Full Position is a Dead End**

Before entering the contract market, don’t focus on how much you can make. Instead, ask yourself: What’s the maximum loss I can tolerate and still sleep well?

This answer determines your life or death. Funds must be divided, not out of fussiness, but because you are bound to make mistakes. No one is perfect.

The safest approach: divide your loss budget into at least three parts. For example, with a $200,000 account and a maximum tolerable loss of 20% ($40,000), split it as: $10,000, $10,000, $20,000. If you only lose once out of three chances, you’re still alive. Being alive is a win in itself.

**Second: Don’t Obsess Over Bottoms and Tops**

What’s the easiest mistake beginners make? Chasing perfection. Trying to buy at the lowest point and sell at the highest point. The result? You lose everything in one shot.

Markets move in two ways—consolidation and trend. Consolidation looks comfortable—you keep adding positions, taking profits, stop-losses, and grabbing rebounds, but it’s actually the most exhausting, and a wrong move can cause a blow-up. Trends may look fierce, but they are the real money-makers.

Why? Because the money in trends is driven by following the momentum, riding the wave makes it easier.

In an uptrend, a 10% to 20% pullback? That’s not a signal to short; it’s a safer zone to add to your position. If you miss the entry, be patient and wait. Don’t rush to re-enter after exiting. Opportunities are hidden in trends, not in your anxiety.

**Third: Take Profits and Stop Losses Not as Details, but as Lifelines**

To earn steadily, only three conditions are needed:

• Never lose more than 5% of your total capital on a single trade
• Aim for at least 5% profit on each trade
• Maintain a long-term win rate over 50%

As long as you stick to these, your account will grow mathematically. You don’t need to win every trade; you just need to make big when you’re right, and lose small when you’re wrong.

In professional terms, your risk-reward ratio should be greater than 1. Once you achieve this, time will work in your favor.

**Fourth: Don’t Treat 24-Hour Market Data as 24-Hour Trading**

BTC perpetual contracts run 24/7, but that doesn’t mean you need to trade around the clock.

The most common mistake for beginners is: over-trading → making a wrong move → losing confidence → revenge trading → over-leveraging and going against your position → a big loss, and it’s all over.

Understand this: good opportunities are actually rare, but when they come, they are very violent; good trades don’t require many, just decisive.

**Final Words**

The competition in the contract market isn’t about who is smarter or faster; it’s about who makes fewer mistakes and survives longer.

Keep the demon of liquidation at bay first, and the story of steady profits can begin. Once you pass this hurdle, you’ve already surpassed most people.