Once you get hooked on trading and start to become addicted, it’s really hard to return to a normal life.


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A friend of mine had one at first—he only used 1,500U to trade futures contracts. In just two short days, he turned it into 40kU. His mindset completely flew off the rails. His salary from his day job didn’t look appealing anymore, running a real business felt too hard, and all he could see was the up-and-down K-line chart. He was convinced this was the only way to turn things around.
After the market reversed, his trading went entirely out of control. When he was in profit, he always complained his position size was too small; when he was losing, he held on to it stubbornly and refused to exit. As soon as there was a drawdown, he would add to the position to bet on a rebound. He was constantly hoping that another trade would let him break even immediately.
In the end, the 40kU account was reduced to only a few hundred U. Financial losses were bad enough—but the hardest addiction to quit was the trading compulsion: eating while staring at the charts, repeatedly checking the market before sleep, even waking up in the middle of the night to open the app and watch price moves. He would tell others to stay away from futures contracts with his mouth, but he couldn’t control himself and kept opening trades frequently.
The most harmful part of high leverage is that it first gives you the sweet taste of fast profits. The thrill brought by large gains in a single day will completely wear down your patience, and you’ll never be able to steady your mind to compound responsibly again.
But the market specifically targets people like this: the more desperate you are to get back to even, the heavier you’ll go all-in; the more afraid you are of missing the move, the more you’ll chase after rising prices. If you can’t bear to lose, you won’t cut losses in time. In the end, what crushes people is never the market movement—it’s the gambling addiction bred by the promise of fast money.
If you want to build a foothold in the crypto market long-term, don’t rush to worry about whether the price will go up or down first. Start by interrogating yourself: if you can’t read the market, can you stay out with no positions? If you lose money, can you decisively cut losses? If you’re profitable, will you take profits in time? If your mindset becomes unbalanced, can you shut off the app directly?
If you already feel yourself gradually getting hooked and losing control, you must adjust your pace in time—don’t wait until both your funds and your daily life collapse before regretting it.
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· 4h ago
Contracts can really be addictive. There are too many people around me who are like this. If you’ve made quick money, you basically can’t go back to a “working a normal job” mindset—it always ends with being liquidated and then getting out. If someone can realize that they need to close the app and cut their losses, they’ve already been half awake.
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