A college student mistakenly entered the crypto market at school—he lost more than a hundred thousand, but is there still a chance to turn things around?

Not long ago, a college student found me.
He originally just wanted to make some extra money through the crypto market to ease the burden on his family. But after he got into futures contracts, he traded based on instinct and believed in so-called “sure-win strategies.” In just a few months, he lost more than a hundred thousand, and he even took on loans. He couldn’t focus on classes either.
He said, “I really don’t know what to do.”
At that time, every day he was scrolling through charts and posts, with only one thought in his mind—quickly earn back the money he’d lost.
But the harder he tried to break even, the more distorted his operations became, and his account kept losing faster and faster.
Later, he saw an article I shared about position management and trading discipline. He reached out to me proactively, hoping I could help him regain direction.
I didn’t rush to teach him how to place trades. Instead, I asked him to stop first.
We spent a week going back through every trade he’d made before, and in the end we found that he wasn’t incapable of analyzing the market—he just had no trading system and no risk awareness.
So I told him to pause trading for now and start learning from the basics again.
Learn position management, learn how to set stop-loss, and build a trading plan. Every trade must have a clear reason for entry and exit.
At first, we even only traded small positions of dozens of USDT per trade. Each one was analyzed carefully and executed strictly according to the rules—not based on instinct.
Slowly, he started to find his rhythm.
When the market moved, he no longer impulsively chased pumps. He wouldn’t stubbornly hold losses. And when profits hit the target, he would take profit according to plan.
A few months later, not only did he gradually make up the earlier losses, but his account also began to generate stable profits.
More importantly, he returned to the classroom, and life gradually got back to normal.
Later, he said something that stayed with me.
He said, “I used to think turning things around depended on the next trade. Later I realized the thing that truly turned me around was learning to stop.”
The crypto market has never been heaven or hell—it’s just a market that amplifies human nature.
Losses aren’t the scary part. What’s scary is repeating the same mistakes over and over just to get back to even.
The people who truly manage to get out of it aren’t lucky—they’re willing to admit the problem, rebuild rules, and execute patiently.
If you’re willing, I can accompany you for a while, and we’ll get you back to the surface.
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