After being in the crypto space for a while, you'll realize a pretty painful truth:

Many people aren't "reaped" by the market, but slowly destroy themselves.
When they first enter, holding a few thousand or tens of thousands of USDT, the market doesn't specifically target anyone, and the bull/bear cycles aren't that extreme, but after some time, when you look back at your account—the money has shrunk a lot, and yet you've been busy.
Busy doing what? Busy staring at the charts.
Switching between 1-minute and 5-minute K-lines, phone glued to your hand, afraid of missing an "opportunity." Dozens of trades a day, looking diligent, but when you actually calculate, the small profits are eaten up by fees and slippage. The more you trade, the lighter your account becomes—this is all too common in crypto.
Worse is the information environment.
A random "100x coin screenshot" in a group instantly gets your emotions fired up; you were on the sidelines a moment ago, and the next second you're all in. Once you go all in on a position, logic takes a back seat. When it goes up, you feel like the chosen one; when it goes down, you can't even bring yourself to hit the stop-loss.
There's another more insidious situation: emotional trading.
Losing a bit during the day feels unfair, and at night you want to "win it back." The more you rush, the more reckless your entries become. Eventually, you realize you're no longer trading—you're using your account to fight your emotions.
After doing this for a long time, I've become increasingly certain of one thing:
The real difficulty in this market isn't technical skills, but "restraint."
Here are three simple words that many people will never achieve in their lifetime:
First, don't be held hostage by short timeframes. $BEL
If you stare at the 1-minute chart, the market will play with you using noise. Truly meaningful opportunities mostly lie in larger timeframes. When you stay still, you're actually waiting.
Second, don't hold losing positions, and especially don't add to them to gamble your life.
If you're wrong, admit it, take a small loss and exit. Keep your capital for the next opportunity. Those who try to average down by adding positions usually end up buried by their cost basis.
Third, make stop-losses "mechanical."
If you get stopped out twice in a row, stop and take a break. Don't force trades. This is what trading is all abo