Why does the exchange show a profit, while the amount you actually make after deducting all costs is much lower?

When reviewing their trades, many traders focus only on the difference between the buying and selling prices, while overlooking an important issue:

A profit on paper does not necessarily equal actual net profit.

In particular, in the cryptocurrency market, trading frequency, order types, holding time, and market liquidity can all affect the final result.

To find out whether a strategy can actually make money, you need to account for at least the following five types of costs.

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Why can your account’s overall risk far exceed expectations even when you’ve only made a few trades?

Many traders review their positions one by one but overlook a more important question: Do these trades share a common source of risk?

Suppose you hold long positions in BTC, ETH, and SOL at the same time. On the surface, you hold three different assets; but if they are all affected by a broad market decline, a contraction in liquidity, or a drop in risk appetite, all three trades may lose money together.

These are three issues in portfolio risk that are often overlooked.

I. Correlation risk

Why can some people follow the same trading signals consistently over the long term, while others keep changing their plans at critical moments?

Many traders are not lacking indicators or trading strategies.

They know where to enter, where to place a stop-loss, and how to manage position size.

But once they actually enter the market, everything changes.

When they are in profit, they worry about giving it back and close their positions early.

When they are losing, they refuse to admit their judgment was wrong and widen their stop-loss without authorization.

When the market rises, they fea

In the cryptocurrency market, many traders see BTC trading volume suddenly surge and assume the market is about to rise. But sometimes, volume increases significantly while the price fails to rise and instead falls. Why is that?

First, it’s important to understand that trading volume represents market activity, not simply buying pressure. Every trade involves both a buyer and a seller, so a surge in volume does not mean the price will necessarily rise.

First, rising prices on increasing volume. If the price continues to rise while volume increases, it suggests market participation is growing

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In BTC trading, many people see a candlestick with a long lower wick and assume buyers are starting to fight back and the price is about to rebound, so they rush in to buy the dip. But in reality, a long lower wick does not necessarily mean a trend reversal; it may just be a brief rebound during a downtrend.

So, how should you assess it?

First, look at where it appears. If a long lower wick forms near an important support level from earlier, it suggests that strong buying may have emerged after the price fell to this area, making the rebound signal relatively more meaningful. But if it appea

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In the cryptocurrency market, many traders know some technical analysis methods yet continue to lose money repeatedly in choppy markets. The reason may not be that their technical skills are inadequate, but that they have failed to identify the current market condition.

The biggest difference between trending and choppy markets is how prices move.

First, in a choppy market, prices usually fluctuate repeatedly within a certain range, with resistance above and support below. If you follow a trend-trading approach—going long when you see prices rise and going short when you see them fall—you ca

When a trading strategy starts to fail, should you adjust its parameters or stop trading?

What’s truly dangerous isn’t that a strategy starts losing money, but that you don’t know why it’s losing and keep changing its parameters in an attempt to repair the returns curve.

A strategy may have worked in the past, but the market won’t keep behaving the same way forever.

Trends may turn into range-bound markets, liquidity may decline, trading costs may rise, and entry signals that once worked may gradually lose their edge.

So how should you make the call?

Step 1: Determine whether you’re seein

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BTC currently has two 4-hour MACD segments, combined with an RSI oversold bullish divergence, but trading volume is still low and the rebound is very weak. Bearish momentum is weakening, so watch for a rebound here to test 75000, as I also mentioned on yesterday’s livestream.

A reversal is only possible if the 75000 resistance is broken and holds.
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In BTC trading, many people see several large bullish candles appear consecutively and assume the uptrend is fully established. Worried about missing out, they rush to chase the rally. But consecutive gains do not mean every price level is suitable for buying. Sometimes, the faster the rally, the more wary you should be of short-term pullback risks.

Why isn't it necessarily a good idea to chase a rally after several large bullish candles?

First, the price may have moved too far from a reasonable level. After consecutive gains, the short-term price may be far from the moving averages. The mar