Attention to high-risk factors!!!

How does a sucker go from entering the market to being trapped? Watching, rushing into the market, going all in, leveraging up, increasing the position at a 'good time,' fear, collapse, despair, a small flame of hope, and then dying.
I've waited for 8 years, just to wait for an opportunity, I want to fight for it, not to prove how great I am, but to tell others, I must get back what I've lost!