In the cryptocurrency futures market, 90% of retail traders lose money not because their technical skills are poor or they can't read the market correctly, but because they die in the obsession of "going long when it drops, going short when it rises" against the trend, and die in the mindless predictions of "tops and bottoms."

I've always told my followers who mirror trade with me: when trading, engrave this sentence into your bones: right-side trading means not fearing highs when prices rise, not fearing lows when prices fall; don't go long when it drops or short when it rises. In a one-sided market, playing this way guarantees death.

Let me first correct a major misconception among most retail traders: right-side trading is NOT mindlessly chasing gains and cutting losses. Rather, it means not guessing tops, not catching bottoms, only following the confirmed and certain trends that the market has already established.

Many people always feel that once a market has risen significantly, chasing it means taking over the bag, afraid of standing on the mountain top; once a market has fallen substantially, going short means missing the bottom, afraid of selling at the floor. So once it rises, they shout "top is in" every day and short at every high; once it falls, they shout "bottom is in" every day and catch every dip. What's the result? In bull markets, shorting all the way, getting liquidated all the way, watching the market surge from 2000 to 3500, your short positions get blown from 2200 to liquidation; in bear markets, going long all the way, catching more on every dip, watching the market crash from 3000 to 1500, your long positions catch the bottom from 2800 until your capital is halved.

This is the cruelest truth of the market: the market will never stop rising just because you think "it's risen too high," nor will it stop falling just because you think "it's fallen enough." Once a trend forms, the force of momentum far exceeds your imagination. Your little capital, operating against the trend in a one-sided market, is like a praying mantis blocking a car—it gets crushed in an instant.

True right-side trading is letting go of your obsession with tops and bottoms, learning to be friends with the trend. In an uptrend, don't fear new highs, only fear touching the top prematurely. As long as the uptrend hasn't broken, even if it's already up 10%, 20%, we only go long following the trend, never touching any short positions, earning the most certain and safest money in the trend; in a downtrend, don't fear new lows, only fear catching the bottom prematurely. As long as the downtrend hasn't reversed, even if it's already down 10%, 20%, we only go short following the trend, never touching any long positions, not becoming the market's "bag holders."

Many people will ask: what if the market reverses after chasing in? This is the trading iron law I've always emphasized: never add positions, only set strict take-profit and stop-loss, use profit/loss ratio to cover win rate, use rules to lock in risk.

All my live-trading setups are implementations of this right-side logic: for example, the ETH 1:4 profit/loss ratio setup only enters following confirmed trends, never opens counter-trend positions; throughout the process, no adding positions or holding losses, set fixed take-profit and stop-loss immediately upon entry, never giving myself any chance to add counter-trend positions or stubbornly hold losses; when profit reaches 1x the profit/loss ratio, immediately lock in the principal, let the remaining position run risk-free. This way, you won't miss the excess returns in one-sided markets, nor will you let profitable positions turn into losses.

Trading is inherently a game against human nature. The retail trader's instinct is "fear of heights and greed for lows," while right-side trading uses iron discipline to fight the greed and fear in your bones.

Stop always wanting to buy at the lowest point and short at the highest point. No one in the market can precisely predict tops and bottoms. Those who always want to "buy at the lowest and sell at the highest" will ultimately only get slapped repeatedly by the trend. What you can actually make is always the money in the trend that you understand and can catch.

If you want to keep up with the pace and don't want to be liquidated going against the trend in one-sided markets anymore, follow my live-trading setups directly. Strictly execute right-side trading discipline, don't guess tops or catch bottoms, use confirmed profit/loss ratios to lock in every wave of gains in the trend. $ETH