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title: 'I Tried Crypto Trading For 1 Week (and Here''s What Happened)'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hct0lMYVruQ'
video_id: 'Hct0lMYVruQ'
date: 2026-07-06
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# I Tried Crypto Trading For 1 Week (and Here's What Happened)

> Source: [I Tried Crypto Trading For 1 Week (and Here's What Happened)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hct0lMYVruQ)

## Summary

The video follows a YouTuber who lost $20,000 in crypto by following bad advice. He now attempts to turn $5,000 into profit by copying trades from top performers on the app Involy, using leverage. Over one week, he documents the volatile journey, ultimately making $3,700 in profit.

### Key Points

- **Crypto's allure and risks** [00:03] — Crypto has made millionaires but is full of scams; the narrator lost $20,000 following bad Alpha from Discord.
- **The concept of Alpha** [00:43] — Alpha is valuable info; most is false, but good Alpha can lead to big gains.
- **Finding good Alpha on Involy** [01:21] — Involy app lets users post trades that cannot be deleted, ensuring accountability. The narrator decides to copy top traders.
- **Leverage explained** [02:59] — Leverage multiplies investment; 5x leverage means a 1% move gives 5% profit or loss. A 20% drop wipes out the investment.
- **Copying a 100% win-rate trader** [04:08] — The narrator finds a trader with 84 trades and 100% win rate, using leverage for 10-20% profits.
- **Starting the challenge** [04:34] — Deposits $5,000 and copies trades from user 'updown' who posts long positions on BSV, StarkNet, and Bitcoin.
- **First profits and scaling** [06:50] — After a Bitcoin dip, trades turn green; account reaches $6,600. The narrator shaves half the positions to lock gains.
- **Dollar cost averaging (DCA)** [08:16] — When a trade goes negative, the narrator adds more to lower entry price, turning a loss into profit.
- **Biggest loss and recovery** [10:53] — A trade drops $770; the narrator keeps adding. The chart reverses, and the trade ends up $2,600 in profit.
- **Final profit** [14:14] — Account reaches $8,719, a 75% gain on $5,000 in one week. The narrator credits Involy and the copied trader.

### Conclusion

Copying successful traders on Involy led to a $3,700 profit in one week, but the narrator questions if it was skill or luck. He invites viewers to try the app and consider a longer challenge.

## Transcript

Finance it's taken the World by storm turning teenagers into Millionaires and plenty of granny's out there you hear people preaching to stay far far away profit in the long run it's full of scams and you'll eventually lose
everything you invested but what if that wasn't the case what if you had some successful crypto Traders were buying and just copied what they do well that's what I'm going to do in this video crypto is a weird place and myself I've
lost over $20,000 trying to catch those winning coins and make millions of dollars but I always ended up holding the bag of a pump and dump scheme and I'm yet to see any real success or any success for that matter so why is it
that some people can consistently catch winners make millions and sell their coins at the right time while us on the other side are taking L after L well I think I might have figured it out in crypto the term Alpha gets thrown around
a lot and it basically means valuable info Alpha range from yo buy this coin I heard the team is super trustworthy and they're going to make it go to the Moon to hey I know justtin Bieber's manager and I know for a fact that he's
going to promote this cryptocoin tomorrow so buy it now and literally everything in between people will make up and say the most absurd things about coins and call it Alpha when most of it is just complete Bol but the hard part
is getting good quality Alpha remember how I said I lost $20,000 yeah I did that by unknowingly following terrible quality Alpha from random Discord channels and I paid the price for it a little while ago I made a
YouTube sh trying out some high-risk crypto investing and in that video we bought into a coin called hyper with just $50 in a matter of days that $50 ended up skyrocketing into over $2,500 and that's because for once I
actually got my hands on some good quality through this guy's site he's a pro crypto Trader who posts all of his trades on this app in volum now I've been on this app for a few months mainly
noticed that there's a few people on there who share pretty consistently good investing and people post what trades they're in like you can see here but what makes it different is that once someone posts a trade they can't delete
it if a crypto Trader is sharing terrible pump and dumps which lose 90% they can't ever delete them and people will see those posts forever unlike on doesn't look good or profit they just delete it and no one knows that it ever
that I've fallen for countless times so I thought to myself why not give crypto one last chance take $55,000 of my hard-earned cash and copy exactly what the top Traders on this app are buying into for one week straight now from what
usually hold their positions for a few days to a few weeks at best and most of them use this thing called Leverage which as far as I know makes the trades honestly need someone to explain to me what leverage even is welcome class to
leverage 101 I'm Professor pump ilus dump through the thir but I know that's a mouthful so you can just call me Dr pump and dump now leverage think of it as basically a multiplier for your investment if you were to invest $1,000
on five times leverage you've effectively invested $5,000 without needing that extra $4,000 in your account if we were to open a trade with $1,000 on five times leverage and the coin simply moved by 1% that would
result in a 5% profit for us because 1% turns 5x Leverage is 5% but it of course goes both ways and if the coin were to suddenly drop 10% which happens all the time in crypto that would be a whopping 50% loss for us and if the coin happens
to drop 20% that would completely wipe out our investment because 20 * 5 is 100% And that's everything we've got and trust me I know that's what happens because it's happened to me many times why do you think I started selling nfts
I've been looking at size account more specifically his short-term trading portfolio and this seems absurd but he has a 100% win rate and he's taken 84 different trades now these trades are
all leveraged which you can see here and most of them are closed for around a 10 to 20% profit so I definitely want to copy that account this week because honestly why wouldn't I but I rarely see him post trades every single day so I'm
well like this account I found here called at up down it's pretty funny they going to go up or down they give no reasoning or explanation as to why but time so I've decided to copy their
time so I've decided to copy their trades this week as deposited $5,000 into my crypto account if we take an L this video is going to be expensive in the last 48 hours Bitcoin has taken a huge dive but that
means that it's got some room to go up again and that may work in our favor and opportunities all right it's officially time updown has just posted that he's going long on this coin bsv on five times leverage meaning he's predicting
that it's going to go up and he's using 10% of the account so I'm going to directly match that and go in with $500 he's also just posted another long trade on this coin Stark net same thing 10% of the account at five times leverage so
well and just like that we've already been about 30 minutes and we're currently down about $100 so not the best start but it's obviously still extremely early so I'm really not
worried all right updown has just posted yet another trade going long on bitcoin the biggest crypto coin in the world so he's obviously betting that the entire obviously be great for us so I've just entered that trade and we'll see what
happens another 40 minutes went by and our account dropped to $4,840 meaning we were down 170 bucks but then just a couple hours later our luck turned around wow Bitcoin just had a pretty solid green candle and our trades are
now in profit we're up over $120 on the bsv trade alone and the other two are progressed the trades continued to climb and by 8:00 p.m. our account was sitting $284 in the green then by 9:00 p.m.
nearly $350 and at 11: we'd made over $500 in profit all right I'm about to go to sleep but all of our trades are hugely in the green and Bitcoin is still looking strong so it's safe to say this
has been an absolutely insane day we definitely got very lucky starting this challenge after a big Bitcoin dump but we both know exactly what crypto is like from the moment I go to sleep until I wake up so I guess I'll check back in
wake up so I guess I'll check back in with you guys in the actually wow our account is approaching $66,000 right now and updown has started
sizes which basically means that he's cashing in some profits and taking some risk off the table so I'm going to do the same I shaved roughly half off of those positions over the next few hours locking in hundreds of dollars of gains
it's 12:00 p.m. now I just completely closed the rest of our first trade and percentage of that Stark net trade and our account is currently up $970 for the rest of the day I kept holding the small Stark net trade but nothing new got
posted so that was it for day two okay this morning I locked in the of that Stark net trade and after it's all said and done our account is at a beautiful $6,000 right now up down has also just posted a long trade on this
coin Jupiter but this position is a bit smaller than usual with only 5% of the account so we're only risking about $300 here I think he's risking less because uncertain about Bitcoin at the moment
and if it were to suddenly dump it's best to not be Overexposed all right currently down about $22 on that new trade not a lot is really happening and the overall Market seems a bit uncertain so it's probably a good thing that we
so it's probably a good thing that we went smaller than 16% on that trade which totals to about a $47 loss but updown has just posted position so I'm going to do the same and I'm adding another $300 into that trade
this is what's known as a dollar cost average or a DCA where you buy more when the trade is negative and effectively give yourself a better entry so that's assume that he's pretty confident in it eventually going up as the day
and since we doubled the position at the bottom it didn't have to move much for us to hit the green and within 1 hour we us to hit the green and within 1 hour we went from $44 of profit to over 155 then
another hour later 255 it's crazy we are making $100 an give me Jeff bezos's phone number I need to call him up and personally warn him that I'm going to take his spot for the wealthiest man
was bouncing around a lot and once up down closed it I did the same for a $150 following on involo didn't post anything new so I decided to only film on days
today is one of those days up down just posted along on this coin tow so let's enter it I also dm'd s who's the co-founder of involo and also the top I told him about this video and he's given me a code gives you guys access to
his trades for free forever because I believe one day he's going to start blame him but with my code you'll be able to see them for free forever which it's code Baxter when you sign up to involo and I've put it in the
description as well the tower trade stayed pretty flat over the day nothing much really happened but overnight we got some movement okay this is getting pretty crazy it's the next day the trade is up $185 right now and our account is
sitting at 6,320 $9 I should probably wait longer between updates because it's only been 15 minutes but we have made another $100 I'm pretty sure that's been helping so I'll keep that
up up down took 25% of the position off the table here and I'm going to do the same because no one ever went broke taking profits okay it's dropped a little bit an up down has officially closed that trade and so have I and our
closed that trade and so have I and our account is sitting at we are back in to we closed this exact same trade last night and honestly good chart has dropped quite a bit so I guess we're looking to ride it back up again
and we're in it pretty heavily with $1,000 let's see what happens currently down $77 on that trade hurts a little but I'm not worried we're now down about $112 and I'm adding another $225 into the
trade ouch it's the next morning and we're currently at our biggest loss of the challenge thus far the trade is down $313 right now -25% so what are we going to do you guessed it add more this time we are adding a ton another $750 going
into this trade and our account is currently at $6,000 flat all right it's added to the trade but a few beautiful green candles have brought us back to break even which is why it is so important to buy the dips it's only been
10 minutes and we are now in the green up $46 let's keep this up the a couple hours later and we are at $195 profit but it wasn't all sunshine
and rainbows oh boy it's the same day 600 p.m. and we're currently down $386 on that trade since about midday the chart has just been going lower and lower and our account is below $6,000 for the first time in a while it's 9:00
p.m. now and we're down $524 I've added another $200 to the trade here for good measure 11:00 p.m. now this is not getting any any better we're down $620 this is starting to really hurt our account is at
$5,695 right now I'm literally watching all of our profit just get wiped out updown has also just increased the position size on this trade to 50% which is huge so I've just added another $800 into it we've got a lot of money in this
trade all right it's 7:00 a.m. the next morning now we're currently down $770 on this trade oh this one really
so did our luck okay it feels like a long time since I've had any good news but in the last 4 hours the chart has really started to reverse and we're only down $170 right now and just 20 minutes later we were break even then in the
green we are now up $90 after being down 770 just this morning all of our buying price which has helped us out as ton but this has been intense is it as
watch this as it is for me to film it because damn I need a nap but I didn't get a nap instead I got a chart that did not stop going up green candles on green candles on green candles I've been out today so I haven't been able to film
anything but it is 10: p.m. the same night and our trade is up over $830 right now and our account just crossed $7,000
this is ridiculous but it didn't end there this chart was Unstoppable it's been another day since I picked up the camera but oh boy our trade is up nearly $1900 right now and our account just crossed
$8,000 what is going on but as fast as things can go up they can come back down again just kidding we sold it this morning updown officially closed that trade and the money in our account is 100% stressfree cash
finally now I'm sure a ton of you are wondering which crypto app I used to leverage and so on so I'll put a link to that in the description but without further Ado how much did we make well our account is at $
8,719 for a total profit in this challenge of $33,700 wow we ended up closing the trade when it was at a profit of $2,600 just look at that chart that is ridiculous we pretty much made a 75% %
gain on our $5,000 investment in one week which is nuts these are the type of scammers will promise you and we've just done it for real now I've got my involo for free forever in the description below as well as the crypto platform I
used in this video and I think all that's left for us to do now is run it back should I try this for a month 3 months leave a comment below and but I guess crypto really isn't so bad
but I guess crypto really isn't so bad after all or did we just get lucky