If you've been wandering in the crypto world for three or four years without making a breakthrough, and you're in your thirties or forties without developing a decent trading strategy, constantly relying on high-leverage contracts to gamble your luck—earning a few hundred dollars today, losing thousands tomorrow—in the chaos of long and short swings, then I have to tell you—if you keep going like this, your trading career will most likely end in repeated liquidations and panic.
Do you think staying up late to monitor the market can save you? Dream on. When you finally blink and open your account, the combination of fees, funding rates, slippage, and stop-loss misfires will wipe out your week's gains. The remaining principal can't even withstand a decent drawdown.
Your main job is becoming increasingly neglected, and every now and then you think about quitting to trade full-time. Your family looks at you like you're a hopeless gambler—they simply can't understand.
And you, on the other hand, see a group member posting screenshots of returns multiplied dozens of times, hearing him say he achieved financial freedom in a bull market and even bought a new car. Meanwhile, looking at your dwindling principal, the sense of gap and anxiety inside you feels just like the heart-pounding moment when you receive a margin call in the middle of the night.
You can keep doing technical analysis and stubbornly pushing forward, but the reality is—without a systematic trading method, you're just wasting time and capital. Anxiety and pressure weigh down on you like a mountain, like an unresolvable deep position. No matter how much BTC rises, it can't save someone without trading discipline.
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GweiWatcher
· 4h ago
Honestly, reading this article is a bit heart-wrenching... The part about staying up late to monitor the market really hit home. The invisible little cuts like transaction fees and slippage are the most frustrating.
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MetaDreamer
· 5h ago
That hit too close to home, the part about staying up all night watching the market really struck a chord with me…
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Going all-in just to turn things around, wake up brother, this is gambling
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The look in your family’s eyes haha, I get it, they’re basically saying you’re crazy
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Without a system, you’re just giving money to the exchange, that’s not wrong
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When group members show off dozens of times gains, why does no one share their liquidation stories…
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Instead of staying up all night watching the market, it’s better to get a good sleep. Slippage and wear and tear, you simply can’t make that back
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Three or four years still gambling on luck, it’s definitely time for reflection
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The principal is getting smaller and smaller, this is a sign. Should you get out? Better get out.
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PretendingSerious
· 9h ago
That really hits home. I'm just the kind of idiot who goes all-in every day.
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orphaned_block
· 12h ago
To be honest, those who haven't achieved stable profits in three or four years are basically driven by a gambler's mentality.
Staying up all night watching the market is something I've given up on long ago; the wear and tear is more despairing than a margin call.
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MemeEchoer
· 12-26 09:53
That's really heartbreaking; this is the fate of most people...
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Whale_Whisperer
· 12-26 09:48
That hits too close to home. I know several guys like this, and now they’ve all disappeared.
Smart contracts are really a trap; you get wiped out as soon as you go to sleep.
Looking at those share screenshots in the group, nine out of ten have gone silent afterward.
There's no way but to gamble; I’ve recognized this fact long ago.
Staying up late to monitor the market? Even my mom advises me not to do that.
The biggest enemy in the crypto world is probably your own greed.
Now I’d rather miss out than get liquidated; that feeling is truly despairing.
The system is important, but more important than the system is staying alive.
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GasFeeBarbecue
· 12-26 09:39
This is so heartbreaking, it's exactly how I looked three years ago... Luckily, I haven't gone full-time into gambling yet.
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DeFiCaffeinator
· 12-26 09:35
That hits too close to home. I know a bunch of people like that, and now they've all gone silent.
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TokenAlchemist
· 12-26 09:25
nah this hits different tho... the liquidation cascade analysis is spot on. problem isn't the market inefficiency vectors, it's that most traders lack the discipline to extract actual alpha. they're just chasing MEV crumbs while ignoring protocol dynamics. no systematic routing strategy = guaranteed value leakage
If you've been wandering in the crypto world for three or four years without making a breakthrough, and you're in your thirties or forties without developing a decent trading strategy, constantly relying on high-leverage contracts to gamble your luck—earning a few hundred dollars today, losing thousands tomorrow—in the chaos of long and short swings, then I have to tell you—if you keep going like this, your trading career will most likely end in repeated liquidations and panic.
Do you think staying up late to monitor the market can save you? Dream on. When you finally blink and open your account, the combination of fees, funding rates, slippage, and stop-loss misfires will wipe out your week's gains. The remaining principal can't even withstand a decent drawdown.
Your main job is becoming increasingly neglected, and every now and then you think about quitting to trade full-time. Your family looks at you like you're a hopeless gambler—they simply can't understand.
And you, on the other hand, see a group member posting screenshots of returns multiplied dozens of times, hearing him say he achieved financial freedom in a bull market and even bought a new car. Meanwhile, looking at your dwindling principal, the sense of gap and anxiety inside you feels just like the heart-pounding moment when you receive a margin call in the middle of the night.
You can keep doing technical analysis and stubbornly pushing forward, but the reality is—without a systematic trading method, you're just wasting time and capital. Anxiety and pressure weigh down on you like a mountain, like an unresolvable deep position. No matter how much BTC rises, it can't save someone without trading discipline.