#美SEC促进加密资产创新监管框架 recently reviewed a case: a student started with $600 and grew it to $20,000 in three months, with zero liquidations.

She was initially anxious—everywhere online, people say “small capital is doomed,” with endless stories of going all-in and getting wiped out, or buying the top and getting stuck. The turning point was when she adopted a seemingly clumsy but executable method: split the principal into three parts, $200 each.

**First Part: Short-term Position**
Focus solely on highly liquid coins like BTC and ETH. The rule was rigid to the point of being laughable: sell everything at a 3%-5% gain, never get greedy. Her first BTC trade went up 4%. She hesitated for ten seconds over the sell button, but pressed it—$200 became $208. Although it went up another 2% later, she said she slept well that night.

**Second Part: Swing Position**
This part tested patience more. Don’t move unless there’s a clear signal (like ETH breaking the 15-day moving average with matching volume). Enter on the signal, hold for three to five days, then exit—don’t try to hold long-term. Once, she wanted to hold for an extra week, but someone sent her a screenshot “swing turned into bagholder” and convinced her otherwise—beginners especially fear losing their rhythm.

**Third Part: Base Position**
This $200 was psychological support. No matter how bad the market got, she wasn’t allowed to touch it; it was reserved as comeback capital if the other two lost money. Once, after losing $300, she wanted to use it, but ultimately closed the trading app—“That would be gambling on my future self.”

**21 Days is a Threshold**
For the first three weeks, she fought her instincts daily: with short-term trades, wanting to wait for bigger gains; with swings, wanting to hold longer. But rules are rules. After a bumpy 21 days, she’d made $50 from short-term, $80 from swings, and hadn’t touched the base position. The account grew from $600 to $730, and for the first time, she felt this was doable.

**The Numbers Three Months Later**
The account eventually reached $20,180:
- Short-term trades made $4,200 (from countless 3%-5% gains)
- Swing trades made $8,900 (waiting for signals, holding 3–5 days)
- Base position was never touched (but it provided confidence to trade)

The key to zero liquidations isn’t the size of your principal; it’s not messing around.

There’s no shortage of stories about turning $3,000 into $80,000, or $5,000 into $150,000. But all those success stories have one thing in common: **when discipline and greed clashed, they chose discipline.**

Having a small amount of capital isn’t a sin—losing control is. Even $600 can prove that.

Watch: $ACE