A man who trades crypto—how does he return to normal life? Honestly, it’s very hard.


I have a friend. When he first entered the crypto world, he was pretty ordinary—he just tried playing with futures/derivatives. As it happened, he got lucky. In just two days, $1,500 capital turned into $40k. $LAB
In that moment, he was completely “floating.” I’m not exaggerating—he felt like he had found a “wealth password.”
But the problem started from that point on.
Later, because he went all-in, overexposed, maxed out positions, and kept holding through drawdowns, the $40k slowly dwindled back to a few hundred. He should have stopped, but he couldn’t anymore.
Every day it was just watching the chart—phone in hand, not letting go. He ate while looking at it. Even before sleeping, he kept looking. On his mouth he’d say, “Only contract dogs play this,” but the moment there was any movement, he rushed in faster than anyone.
To put it plainly, once you’ve tasted the feeling of “fast money,” it’s hard for a person to pull back.
Futures/derivatives themselves are extreme. Tens of times leverage is right there—if you’re on the right side of a move, the funds really do multiply quickly; but the opposite is also true—if your judgment is wrong once, the drawdown can directly punch through.
It’s far more stimulating than stocks. It’s even more addictive than a lot of gambling—because it gives you feedback too fast.
Stocks can move up to 10 points in a day at most; in crypto, hundreds of points in a day aren’t unusual. This kind of pace easily creates a delusion that you can still win it back again.
But reality often is that most people don’t even get the chance to “break even” before the market has already wiped out the account. $EVAA
So you’ll find a very realistic situation: once futures/derivatives get you “high,” it’s really hard to turn around.
It’s not because you’re greedy. It’s because it’s too fast, too stimulating, and it’s too easy to fall into the illusion that “next trade will let me break even.”
A lot of people don’t lose because of technique—they lose because of this sense of tempo.
The market will never give you a second chance just because you’re unwilling to give up. $TAC
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