In five years of being in the circle, I have seen too many people stumble in the market. The most memorable was a friend who used 10x leverage to chase a rally, only to be liquidated to zero in ten minutes. He cried, saying he had found the right direction but still lost. My answer was straightforward: "What you entered isn’t the market itself, but a setup carefully crafted by others."

Later, I realized that big funds in the market never cut through technical analysis; they cut through human nature. Your greed, fear, and luck are all scripted long ago. Today, I want to share the experience I gained through losses over these years.
**First Pattern: Fake Breakouts Eat Up Chasers**
Be cautious when you see a sudden large bullish candle breaking through a key resistance level. On social media, the voices claiming "main players are entering" will flood the scene, retail investors follow the trend, only to be crushed when the price reverses. Judging a true or false breakout is simple—real breakouts are accompanied by increased volume; a rise without volume is just a show. Last year, a DeFi token surged 80% in one day, the market was buzzing about a "technological revolution," but the next day it was halved. Those following the trend clung to the top, while the big players had already sold off their spot holdings.
**Second Pattern: Long-term Consolidation Wears Out Your Patience**
The price oscillates narrowly for months, creating an illusion of "calm before the storm." When you can’t stand it anymore and are about to chase or cut losses, they suddenly push the price up or down. Essentially, they use time to force you into mistakes. I once spent three months on a sideways coin, and just as I planned to cut losses, it surged 50%. Only later did I realize the big players were targeting the tight stop-loss zones.
**Third Pattern: Reverse Double Kill (Futures Market Version)**
This is the cruelest. When bullish confidence is high, they dump to create panic, triggering a chain of stop-losses; then they quickly rally again, trapping the shorts in a reverse squeeze. Back and forth, retail investors on both sides become nothing but cash machines.
Understanding these patterns isn’t about prediction; it’s about realizing that the market isn’t an equal arena. Capital size, information advantage, execution speed—these are on different levels. Instead of studying candlestick patterns, it’s better to first control your greed and fear.