I've been lurking in the group for a long time, but I still want to chime in: holding spot positions without selling, or getting liquidated on futures contracts—it's not that you "can't read the charts," it's that your position has twisted your emotions into a knot. Here's my straightforward take on position management: first, keep the money you can sleep peacefully with, and only then should you go for the rest; don't go all-in right away to prove yourself, the market doesn't buy that.

Futures are even simpler and more brutal: leverage isn't meant to help you make quick profits, it's meant to make you die faster... I now prefer to open smaller positions, admit mistakes when they happen, and not rely on "holding on a bit longer" to drag things out. Recently, with pledging, shared security, and stacking yields being criticized as copycat tactics, I understand it well— the more you stack, the more you seem to stack risks too. People with unstable mindsets are the easiest to be taken out by a single setback. Anyway, I complain about it verbally, but I still stay diligent with my hands, at least I won't let my position turn me into an ATM.