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#There is a strange paradox in trading that nobody prepares you for.
Losses don’t usually destroy traders.
Success does.
Not because profit is dangerous, but because the mind quietly redefines reality after a big win.
I call this distortion Expectation Debt.
It is the psychological pressure created when your brain starts treating an exceptional trade as a baseline for future behavior.
This is the story of how I learned it the hard way.
The Trade That Rewired My Mind
It started with BTC futures during a high-volatility expansion phase.
The market had spent days compressing liquidity between a t