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Honestly, for those who have traded derivatives before, wanting to "completely return to normal life" is not easy at all, and can even be said to be quite difficult.
I know a friend who was very ordinary when he first entered the scene, just trying out a contract with a little over a thousand dollars, and then luck came—within two days, he went straight to forty thousand.
At that moment, his entire state changed, not happy, but a clear excitement of "I seem to understand the market now."
But the problem was also planted from that moment on.
Later, he started adding positions, leveraging, holding onto trades, winning more and more boldly, and when losing, he was unwilling to cut, gradually losing the forty thousand until only a small amount remained.
If he had been more rational, he should have stopped at this point, but the reality was, he couldn’t get out anymore.
You’ll find that his life was completely tied to the market: his phone was always on, eating while watching candlestick charts, checking the market again before bed, saying “I won’t touch this anymore,” but his hands were more honest than anyone else—whenever there was a fluctuation, he was the first to jump in.
The most terrifying part of trading derivatives isn’t losing money, but the “feedback being too fast.”
Oh, and it only takes a few seconds to give you a reward, making you feel powerful; if you’re wrong, it only takes a few minutes to wake you up.
But people tend to remember only those few wins.
Over time, this creates an illusion:
It’s not that I’m trading, it’s that I can catch one more wave to turn things around.
But the real cruelty of the market is here—it won’t wait for your emotions to recover, nor will it give you a second chance just because you’re unwilling to accept defeat.
Many people think they lose because of their skills, but in reality, they lose more in this rhythm: too much stimulation, too short cycles, too strong emotional feedback, dragging people step by step into it.
In the end, derivatives are not tools to make people gradually stronger; they are more like amplifiers—magnifying greed, impulsiveness, and luck to a level you can’t handle.
Those who can step back are not the ones who win the most, but those who realize earliest when to stop. $BTC