Size by units, not by vibes
A documented copy-LP wallet ran ~10.75 SOL per position across 9,806 closed positions, turning consistent unit sizing into a 78% win rate and ~40 SOL per month. The unit size is what makes the statistics meaningful: with wildly varying sizes, one oversized loss erases twenty wins.
Practical rule: define one position unit (a fixed SOL or USD amount), never exceed one unit per new setup, and let count of positions rather than size of positions express conviction.
Scale on net, gate on proof
The 36-positions-per-week trader held sizing below $100 until net PnL grew by a further $800, and only then increased size. That is the discipline: scale after a measured net milestone, not after a good day.
Set your own gate before you start: for example, scale up one notch per $X of cumulative net profit, and drop back a notch after a drawdown of one unit. Write it down before the emotions show up.
Portfolio over position
Degen basket strategy explicitly runs on total portfolio PnL: no per-token targets, no closing winners early, rugs left alone at -99%. The unit economics only work if individual outcomes are allowed to happen.
The failure mode is watching single positions. A position sitting at the bottom of its range does not need action if the basket is net positive and the exit rules have not triggered.
Expectation setting
Even good LP books have losing weeks: a 78% win rate still produced five losing trades out of 36 in one week, including a -$47.81. What keeps the book alive is that average wins ($10-55) are protected by hard exits and the unit size caps each loss.
Never size so large that one out-of-range exit or one rug forces a strategy change. If a single position outcome would change your plan, the unit is too big.