The worst thing you can do after an emotional trade and a big loss is increase leverage trying to win it back. That money is gone. Accept it. The moment you start revenge trading, you’re no longer trading the market… You’re fighting your own emotions. Forget the loss. Shift your focus back to execution. Money in trading doesn’t come from heroic trades. It comes from compounding small advantages and repeating good habits over a long period of time. If you’re chasing home runs, you’re not building an account. You’re preparing to blow it.
You trade well → confidence grows → emotional attachment to profits increases → one bad moment triggers urgency → urgency turns into tilt → tilt destroys weeks of discipline in hours.
The beginner fears losing money. The intermediate fears missing opportunities. The professional fears breaking process. And that final fear is the only one that actually protects capital.
In the beginning, traders try to conquer the market. In the end, they learn the market was never an opponent, only a mirror reflecting their internal state.
Every trader begins by trying to predict the future. Eventually, the market teaches a deeper lesson: The future was never the problem. Your need to control it was.
When you invest $10,000 into one asset, the math is simple: You can only lose $10,000. But if you’re right, there’s no ceiling. That’s the beauty of asymmetric bets.
Me and my buddies had UST parked on Anchor Protocol chasing that 20% yield. Thought it was safe stable money 😂 Then the depeg happened... I still remember staring at the LUNA chart that night during the death spiral, watching it collapse candle after candle, realizing in real time this wasn’t a dip… it was the end. Who's got their own Luna/UST story?