#美国核心物价涨幅不及市场预估 How much do you need to earn to feel safe to exit?$RIVER

This old chestnut always seems to trip people up. How many have fallen for greed, only to lose even their principal in the end.

I still remember the 2018 market rally. A friend invested $20,000, and within five days, his account soared to 300,000. We advised him to withdraw immediately, but his eyes lit up—he said he wanted to hit one million to achieve financial freedom. Half a year later, his account shrank to just over 10,000, and his principal was gone. I’ve also fallen for this trap myself. During the 2021 bull market, I watched my account skyrocket to 1.8 million USDT in a single day. Seeing those numbers, I couldn’t stop thinking—if I could just double again, I’d cash out. But what happened? When I finally realized, only 400,000 remained.

That period, sleep became a luxury. Countless times I woke up in the middle of the night, repeatedly calculating—if I had sold earlier, I could have paid for a few houses. But these are all hindsight.

Later, I realized a truth: how much you earn in the crypto market doesn’t really matter; what matters is how much you can actually withdraw. Many people talk about financial freedom all day long, but they can’t even do the most basic “take profits when the time is right.”

I set a strict rule for myself: as soon as my position gains 300%, I must take out half of the profits in stages. This way, I won’t be mentally hostage to the numbers on the screen, and my account can last longer.

Someone asked me, what level of profit is enough? Honestly, no one would complain about earning too much. But everyone has a psychological limit. The key is whether you dare to convert paper wealth into real assets before greed consumes you.

The deepest lesson the crypto world has taught me is this: never try to exit at the highest point, because the highest point doesn’t really exist. The ones who laugh the most at the end are those who decisively get off the ride at the halfway mark.