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title: 'How to Trade Crypto with Just $8: Scalping Strategy for Small Accounts'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=d7Ngol5tN6I'
video_id: 'd7Ngol5tN6I'
date: 2026-07-12
duration_sec: 1891
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# How to Trade Crypto with Just $8: Scalping Strategy for Small Accounts

> Source: [How to Trade Crypto with Just $8: Scalping Strategy for Small Accounts](https://youtube.com/watch?v=d7Ngol5tN6I)

## Summary

This video demonstrates how to trade crypto assets with a very small bankroll of $8.21, using high leverage and scalping strategies. The presenter emphasizes the risks of starting with little capital but aims to teach professional trading concepts through practical example.

### Key Points

- **Starting with a small bankroll** [00:02] — The video begins with a bankroll of $8.21 to prove it's possible to start small, but warns it's extremely risky due to high fees and liquidation risk.
- **Margin settings: Isolated vs Cross** [01:46] — For beginners, isolated margin is recommended because it only risks the amount allocated to the trade, not the entire futures balance. Cross margin uses the whole balance as collateral, increasing liquidation risk.
- **Leverage and timeframe choice** [04:10] — With a small bankroll, high leverage (40x) is necessary to make meaningful profits. The trader uses 5-minute and 1-minute timeframes for scalping, though these are riskier.
- **Asset selection and multi-timeframe analysis** [06:12] — Ethereum is chosen for its symmetry. The trader analyzes 5-min, 15-min, 1-hour, 4-hour, and daily charts to identify trends and resistance levels.
- **Resistance on higher timeframes** [08:33] — The 1-hour chart shows price approaching a resistance zone, signaling a potential trend reversal. The 4-hour chart also shows resistance and a possible reversal pattern.
- **Using indicators: EMA and RSI** [17:11] — A 50-period exponential moving average (EMA) and Relative Strength Index (RSI) are used. The price is above the EMA and RSI is above 50, indicating bullish momentum.
- **Executing the trade** [22:07] — A long position is opened at market price with 40x leverage, isolated margin, and no stop loss or take profit. The entry is triggered when RSI touches a predefined level (53.99) and bounces.
- **Closing the position and results** [28:11] — The position is closed manually after a 7% profit, resulting in a net gain of $0.36 (from $8.21 to $8.57). High fees from market orders reduced the net profit.

### Conclusion

Even with a small profit, the video demonstrates that scalping with high leverage can generate returns, but fees significantly eat into profits. The series aims to grow the small bankroll through disciplined trading and risk management.

## Transcript

channel operating Banco Real on the scale, and for that we're going to start with a small amount of just eight dollars and twenty-one cents to prove that it is possible to start with a small bankroll operating crypto assets. If you don't know
leave a link in the first video description where I give a complete step-by-step guide to get you started. It's worth taking a look, and if you liked the idea of ​​our series, leave a like, and if you haven't subscribed yet, subscribe so you do
n't miss the next episodes. Remember that if we get a lot of likes and comments, we can change the format from recorded video to live; it all depends on you. Let's get to the video. Well, since we're going to
work with a very small bankroll of only 8.21 cents, for any movement, for any operation, we're going to need to use very high leverage because it's no use opening a position here with eight dollars with
very low leverage, for example, two times, because our results will be very low compared to our fees. very low compared to our fees. So I don't recommend you start
with such a low amount precisely because any liquidation...  So, basically, we're going to break our small bankroll, right? But we're going to try to operate using 0% margin. So we're going to use some strategies here that
we'll put the entire bankroll on, remembering that it's extremely risky to start with little money in the bankroll. Okay, the logic I'm going to show can also apply with larger bankrolls of $50, $100, etc. In short, what
will guide you here is the logic behind the operation. I want you to learn some concepts that these professional traders use when making a decision. Okay, so let's go. First thing, let's adjust here for
isolated margin. In our case, if we put the Crossed Margin, it wouldn't change anything. Any difference between the Crossed and isolated margin? The Crossed Margin is... Hello everyone, the balance you have in your futures account, and you... it doesn't measure up with the balance of the sport.
So let's say you have 10,000 reais in your Spot account and you transferred 10,000 reais to your futures account. If you're on Crossed Margin, it will take those full 1,000 reais as collateral for your trade, okay, to
as collateral for your trade, okay, to avoid liquidation, and already... Isolated margin will take the entire value you placed in that order. So, let's say in our case, we'll put 8.21 cents. Since that's
our entire future balance, it will be our entire position balance. So, regardless of which margin you use, it will be the same. But for example, if you had a bankroll of $100 and risked $10 on each position,
if you put it in isolated margin, you'll only have your $10 left for liquidation. So, you... Oh, okay, the other $90... If you put it in cross margin, you'll
put the other $90 as collateral for this loan. So, for those who are starting out, I always recommend putting it in isolated margin. You'll work
operation by operation, nothing in cross margin because what happens is we have a false interpretation of our liquidation. We think we'll be liquidated much less frequently, but in
money when we are liquidated. That's what happens when you put cross margin because you're putting your entire bankroll at stake. So, this is for those with more experience, for some more directional training, like swing trading,
some position trading that you can also do throughout the year.  Timeframes are recommended for cross-exchange strategies, but for beginners, let's isolate them. We 'll use leverage that's truly worthwhile.
For example, with a small balance of 8 and 21, there's no point in using low leverage. We'll be working with very little money, and we'll be making small scalping movements. It's not
scalping movements. It's not ideal, but for didactic purposes, I'll have to for you to see. So, we 'll take a smaller percentage of profit. There's no point in staying in one trade for two or three hours because you wo
n't learn from it. So, I'll look for small scalping trades. Timeframes of 5 and 1 minute are much riskier, but it's a didactic way for you to learn. It's not what I do with my
day-to-day trading, where I actually do my professional day trading, but for didactic purposes, I suggest that... And in this way... So, since we're very small price movements, the leverage we'll have to put here... I'll start with 40 times
the cap, so we won't be...  Okay, stopped right away, right? So, we're setting our margin, putting it in our leverage. Let's work with everything. In this first video, I'll only be using the market price. Okay, but
we'll also work with the limit price, the some Profit Stop Loss operations, which is our famous Profit Stop Loss operations, which is our famous head and shoulders pattern, and in the future, some
targets, some Stop Losses that we'll be using the relation function. Okay, everything is market price, raw and practical chart interpretation,
right? So let's go. The first thing you need to do is choose an asset to trade, right? We can trade with more than one asset, no problem at all, but since we're going to work with a very small bankroll now at the beginning, with
8:20 one cent, we don't have enough capital to open two or three positions at the same time, so we 'll need to work with one position at a time, okay? So for today's video, I chose the Eternal.
Notice that it has a very nice symmetry in the five-minute timeframe, okay? At least now, in this last day, it has a nice symmetry, okay? Hi, and the a nice symmetry, okay? Hi, and the first thing we need to do is
to follow...  This is a technical market analysis. So we're going to look at the chart, we'll zoom in here on our screen, on our screen, and we'll need to look at the chart and
also the transaction volume. minute timeframe, we clearly see a strong upward trend.
a strong upward trend. And how do we see this? than the previous bottom, which was inside, some
pullback corrections, right? So we are in a clear we are in a clear short-term upward trend for Ethereum. So, the first thing we evaluate is our timeframe, which we will operate on in this
right? Mark that in your heads. But now we're going to take a look at the 15-minute timeframe.
A kiss on the 15-minute chart, the symmetry is high. On the last day we had good symmetry, and the same situation as the five-minute chart, right? Upward trend,
highs and lows higher than the previous ones. So we will be our trading chart, upward trend, and the 15-minute chart,
upward trend, and the 15-minute chart, which is the larger timeframe of our trading trend.  Okay, let 's go! One-hour chart,
kiss. The highs and lows are The highs and lows are higher than the previous ones, but notice something: we are getting very close,
a price resistance zone. See, I'm going to draw a horizontal line up here, which is a resistance line. So
we are getting very close to a resistance zone. What does this resistance zone. What does this indicate? That we may be about to see a major trend reversal on the one-hour chart. Okay, why don't I
use support and resistance on the 15-minute and five-minute charts? Because I don't consider much smaller timeframes to be resistance. For me, the smallest, strongest timeframe is the one-hour one because we have a lot of
oscillation, a lot of volatility in the smaller timeframes. So, for me, it doesn't make support and resistance on smaller timeframes. Okay, I'm not criticizing
smaller timeframes. Okay, I'm not criticizing this analysis, but for me, it's not a valid analysis. Okay, I start using support and resistance from the one-hour chart. Okay, so we have a one-hour chart hitting a
resistance, which is already a warning sign for our main trend. Let's go! Analyzing the four-hour chart, you can see that we're already in a very stretched leg of correction here. We had a
of correction here. We had a sideways drop, a little sideways drop, a little sideways drop, and we're sideways drop, and we're in a pullback.
I'll just mark it here: we're in a pullback for the price to continue falling pullback for the price to continue falling on the four-hour chart. So, you can see here on the four-hour chart that we clearly have descending tops and bottoms. We're
also hitting a resistance region that a resistance region that we could reverse on. But it's a signal that we have to be alert to. Another thing I noticed
Another thing I noticed here is that we're forming a reversal pattern on the four-hour chart. Normally, reversal patterns tend to have a very high leg. So it's possible
that we could see the price reach here, only price reach here, only 3,290 on the four-hour chart. Of course, it's not always in a wave motion, because the chart never goes up like this, right?
chart never goes up like this, right? We can see if We can see if this here is a reversal pattern. We could be seeing a very strong movement.  The price is rising on the
four-hour chart, so I wouldn't be surprised if we surprised if we quickly reached 3,290 in the ethereal chart. Okay, let's continue our analysis. Five-
minute chart: clear upward trend. Fifteen-minute chart: clear upward trend. One-hour chart: we're already hitting resistance, so that's a warning sign. Four-hour chart: we're also hitting
resistance, clear downward trend. So on the four-hour chart, we already have a clear downward trend, but we're also seeing a formation, a possible formation, in a reversal pattern. So that's another point
to keep an eye on. Let's take a look at the daily chart Let's take a look at the daily chart trying to form a bottom, right? Normally this pattern here is a bottom pattern, right?
Notice that we had a price consolidation, we had a strong upward leg, we had an attempt at a pullback, right? Fullback. The price continued to fall, and normally we already have a
bottom consolidation in this region, right? This shape. But remember, nothing prevents the price from moving sideways here, right? Making sideways movements.  The text is a jumbled collection of words and phrases in Portuguese (Brazil) that don't form coherent sentences. It appears to be a mix of technical Making sideways movements.  The text is a jumbled collection of words and phrases in Portuguese (Brazil) that don't form coherent sentences. It appears to be a mix of technical
analysis, possibly from a technical analysis, and doesn't form coherent sentences. A direct translation is impossible without context. It seems to be discussing the price's movement and its potential for price
consolidation. A possible interpretation is: "The price is moving sideways, and I'm looking for this support here. The truth is, all technical analysis always has two sides, right? It can go up or down, it's obvious. What we're looking for here are the mathematical and statistical probabilities of what the price can do. So we know that normally only a bottom consolidation is configured, but in terms of taste, how do you know this? It's screen time. This is something you'll rarely see right away and maybe see a see right away and maybe see a
daily chart we can see a rise in the coming days, coming days,
On the four- hour chart, on the daily chart, we are still in a bottom consolidation, so we are in a period of are in a period of sideways movement. So our analysis is
done, let's go back to our operating timeframe, which will be the five-minute timeframe, and let's go back to the macro analysis."  Regarding our price analysis,
we have some minor observations we need to make, so let's go. A big kiss... In the last five-minute price movements, we had a strong upward
we had a strong upward correction, an upward leg below the previous high, an almost lateral correction, a strong upward leg breaking our previous high, a
previous high, a sideways correction, and a bar, right? The Hulk's penis, as many call it. What we can notice here... let's take a look now at our bars, our key patterns, along
with the volume, and you can see that we have volume peaks here, right? Volume peak here, and you can see that we didn't have a high selling volume, we only had
high selling volume, we only had exhaustion bars, find another one here, also no lower shadow, many upper shadows, and a high degree of volume. Then we had a good period here sideways, we can consider it up to here,
like this: 2:50 sideways, practically no 2:50 sideways, practically no trend,
strong buying bar here. We also do buying bar here. We also do n't have high volume, this could also be forming a flag pattern. So our...
Flag nativity scene, what do we do now, the short and long position? We still don't have confirmation of which way the market will go. If I were to open, I
need to open now. It's an order opening that will depend on my life. I order opening that will depend on my life. I open a long, right, to follow the open a long, right, to follow the primary market trend, but with no
confirmation, only with our price action. We could open a long. But let's put some indicators here to guide us. What is the best operation to do? So let's put an indicator, okay?
First, an indicator, and that's an EMA, which is an exponential moving average. Let's put an EMA here at
50. Okay, there are about 50 that were put today, and let's put a momentum indicator. I really like to use it here at the base, I prefer to use it at the tank, you know. I use the McQueen indicator a lot. Okay, but it's not like the
the McQueen indicator a lot. Okay, but it's not like the vagina day, it's a McQueen, very, the MEC for you here, you can see that it does n't have much information and very little
configuration, right? The source, I also can't move much, so the histogram is also very precarious, right? I don't have a color histogram, so I don't see it directly on the platform.  " Bahian, if I don't use it much, believe me, so
Bahian, if I don't use it much, believe me, so for that I use an RSI quite a lot, right? Relative Strength Index. So, take a look at the RSI here, let's open our chart. Call me there
and see what we have. The 50-period moving average is the 50-period EMA pointing upwards, the price is working above the EMA, not even touching it here, above the EMA, not even touching it here, right? In our RSI
right? In our RSI we have a position of 59. Currently we are in a position of 59, always working above the ' 59, always working above the ' show maximum' level.
See here on the five-minute chart, since since 1:35 we are always working with RC above the 50 line, right? See that the minimum it touched here was 48 and it
went back up, so it hits the selling pressure, then hits the selling pressure, retreats to the 50 level and comes back, right? So
what can we do based on this information from the RSI? this information from the RSI? Go back here
so what can we do here to wait? Okay, what would I do in this case? And see that we are in a flag pattern, right? Practically speaking, like a flag."  There will
be many people in the literature who will say that this is n't the flag, that this is never the case, but I usually use chart analysis in a slightly different way, not so traditional, but more
didactic and illustrative. You don't need to learn the names of Kendall's patterns, you don't need to learn the names of nativity scenes. They are patterns of figures, nothing like that. I need you to know the logic of buying, the logic of selling,
when an asset is overbought or oversold, what overbought or oversold, what its trend is, the price movements, what each candle says, what each shadow represents, the pressure, the volume. And that's what
especially when you're starting out. Okay, here's a very simple strategy for our first operation. It only takes a real bank here in Bahia to change here, as you get a little more used to it. So let's go, what are
we going to wait for? We're going to open a DeLonghi position. We 're already defined in the 40 pattern. Okay, but what am I going to wait for to open a long position here? Notice that we're in descending volume and we have
in descending volume and we have So I haven't had any large volume bars.  "It's a sell bar, right? Like I had here, for example. So we're seeing bars with high volume, always in buy positions. I
want to take one of these bars, okay? Since we're working with a scalp with a very small bankroll, I want to optimize this type of bar as much as possible so we can enter and exit, maybe on the same bar. That's what I'm going to
show you. And when will the half-entry be? Let's wait for the RSI to half-entry be? Let's wait for the RSI to touch. Just put the horizontal line here. touch. Just put the horizontal line here. Let's wait for the reciprocal. This position
Let's wait for the reciprocal. This position here... Ah, okay, let that one touch. Maybe it needs one more, right? Maybe... Let's put a little bit here for it. Here, the index is
Here, the index is 5453 for us. That's good, okay? So let's follow that and our chart, and let's leave it here. We're going to put it at market price
in isolated margin mode, 40 times. We're going to put 0% of our bankroll. Let's go back here to 0% of our bankroll. Take Profit Stop Loss, we're not going to use it. We're also not going to use it, and now we're just going to
going to use it, and now we're just going to wait to reach this position of 53/99. Let's wait for the next Canon close."  Okay guys, we're going to open a long position. Canon close."  Okay guys, we're going to open a long position.
we open the long position, we'll come back. We're back our indicator has already touched our position and opened upwards. We're at the opening
of a green candle. We have two options: we can open now, since our indicator indicated a hit and bounced back, or we can confirm this movement by waiting for the green bar
green bar and close. Okay, we're going to open a long position here at 40x. Order sent, marketing order filled. Below we can see our position in Ethereum
see our position in Ethereum Perfetto 40x. The size of our position, so this leveraged $8 at 40 times. We have a bankroll of We have a bankroll of $317, our entry price, the
reference price which is now, our settlement price, and our margin ratio. How much did we invest in the order? one lot, so it will never be 100
so it will never be 100 %, and here is our net loss, or our  Net profit, right? Now we're losing 1.43 percent, which is worth 12 cents on the dollar.
cents on the dollar. To avoid the position dwindling, we're going to define some issues here. Let's zoom in on the chart. So, we 're operating by visualizing the screen, so we're not working with
we're not working with stop orders, neither take So we need a mental strategy for this setup. What are we going to use? Notice that we opened the position more or less halfway through this
position more or less halfway through this bar here, right? What happens is that I know we probably won't recover the price we missed. Our trend movement is...
Probably when we lose this bottom here, let me mark it for you. Probably when we lose this bottom here, okay, so probably
bottom here, okay, so probably when we lose this bottom here. And it's because we made a mistake in the move, okay. So you see that we have a Stop at 3040, let's round it here, we can even move it a little more, but let's
leave our Stop at 3040, okay? So when it reaches 3040, we're going to exit our position because we had to take a Stop, okay? And to our target, to our target, we're going to wait for the RSI to enter oversold again, okay? So
to enter oversold again, okay? So when they are surviving here, okay, that's when when they are surviving here, okay, that's when we're going to execute our exit, okay? There you go, this is overbought, let's go, folks, there
are numerous nomenclatures. Some people say it's just overbought, okay? Some people say it's surviving, why do I say it's oversold? Because the price is being sold higher than it's
sold higher than it's worth, so no oversold is oversold, the chicken is overbought, the price is being bought below what it's worth, the logic works for the universe too, it's all a matter of  The terminology is good
for me, some are correct, always working, watch, sexy, basically, it passed the 70 line, we have to sell, it passed the 30 line, we have to buy, that's the standard, and the 50 line is our water level, so when it
reaches our oversold index above the 70 line, we will make our exit, if it reaches 30/40 we will make our Stop,
right? I'll cut the video here, as soon as we reach our Stop or our we reach our Stop or our album, I'll come back with a quick update on our position, see that it hasn't even closed the first bar yet, we
even closed the first bar yet, we are already at a profit of... 27 percent, that's how our bankroll is huge, we are earning from wheat and 25 cents from Dorna, but what matters is our percentage, so we are even at the
train, it's going with our movement now, it's already at 40, right? Forty cents of a dollar, 4.69 percent, our rs has already pointed upwards, maybe we'll close it as soon as it hits 70, everything will depend on
how it behaves here in this region.  Maybe it's at the top, but we'll keep an eye on it together here. I'll let you follow along, okay? As soon as there's interesting movement, I'll be back. I'm coming back, folks. From here, our
position is currently showing a profit of 50 cents on the dollar, about six or seven percent at this moment. We had a red closing and now a green opening. Our RS is still in a
straight line, so it hasn't gone up or down. I'm going to close the position now But I see that in Três Barras we've already achieved a seven percent performance. We could probably stretch it a little further
to the Atena receipt, but that might last about 40 or 50 minutes. Unfortunately, today I don't have all that time to be buying with you. Okay, so let's close this position here. Close all positions, confirm. Great!
So, positions closed. Let's see, we finished our day Let's see, we finished our day today with eight dollars and 57 cents. It's today with eight dollars and 57 cents. It's good to pull out the calculator. 8:57
or less. $8.21 that we made. So  Look here, we made a net profit of 36 cents on the dollar. That's our closing profit; we dollar. That's our closing profit; we made 60, so we're putting it down.  60 -.  36.
half in fees, you can see how much we earn, especially because we used
market orders, which I'll teach you in the next videos. The differences between market orders, limit orders, take orders, what a
fee amounts are different. And what we can learn from this part is that even if we sometimes only make a little profit, we're still making something, so don't be so greedy. Another issue is that we pay a lot in
scalping fees. So even if you're not making a profit, small compared to the size of the fees you pay. So, let's say we didn't even reach
point 6, right? 60 cents of a dollar more in net profit, we only had more in net profit, we only had 36 cents left. It's still a profit, 36 cents left. It's still a profit, but nothing compared to the fees we
ended up paying, right? Because when you lose money, nobody pays anything to us, right? Guys, I hope you enjoyed the video. I hope you like this new series. Tomorrow I'll be releasing the next video in this series on the channel.  I'll
also be testing our strategies, all the strategies I share on the channel and some others I use in my daily life. I'll be bringing them in this video series, so if you liked it, please subscribe if you
're not already, leave a like, comment with your questions, and we'll be leveraging this small bankroll of $8.21, which is now at bankroll of $8.21, which is now at 8:57 AM, into a large bankroll
in the future. So I ask that you follow along and activate the notification bell so you don't miss any of these videos. Unfortunately, I don't know the exact times I'll be posting, but I'll try to post at least one
video a day. Today's video was another order opening, a was another order opening, a action. I taught you how to do the analysis on the necessary timeframes
and with a small trend and momentum indicator. I hope you and momentum indicator. I hope you enjoyed the video. That's all, folks, until enjoyed the video. That's all, folks, until the next video.