My order was resisted, and this lesson is now deeply ingrained. The order I placed the night before last was expected to be safely closed the next day. But when I woke up and checked the market, the opportunity for a capital-preserving close was right in front of me. I wondered if I could squeeze out a bit more profit. As a result, due to this greed, the situation completely turned around.

Looking back at my trading habits, I used to be very cautious, risking at most 1% per position, and habitually placing stop-loss orders. But that day, for some unknown reason, I broke my usual routine and unexpectedly increased my position size, forgetting to set a stop-loss. A moment of greed turned my steady approach into a gamble. This time, I proved with real money a well-known truth — even the smallest carelessness in trading can lead to the biggest losses. Greed and luck are always the invisible killers of an account.