$ZEC Liquidation has never been about losing to the market, but rather about failing to admit one's own mistakes.
The hardest part is not losing money, but having one's mindset collapse in an instant. It's not that you don't understand stop losses, but that you are unwilling to admit that this trade was a mistake, always clinging to that little hope of 'maybe it will come back if I wait a bit longer.' Often, it just takes one more candlestick, and before you know it, the account is already done.
What's even more brutal is that this is usually not the first time. You understand the reasoning, but when it comes to your own trades, you start to hesitate, procrastinate, and get firmly bound by reluctance and luck. You feel invincible when you make a little profit, but the moment you lose even a bit, your mindset becomes unbalanced, only thinking about how to recover immediately—this is fundamentally not a technical issue, but a loss of control of human nature.
What truly drags a person into the abyss is not the market itself, but that stubborn, unyielding obsession. A stop loss is not simply cutting losses; it's about preserving life. Before a liquidation, you always think about holding on a bit longer, but when something goes wrong, you realize that surviving is what gives you the next opportunity.
Traders who can last long-term are not those who are right every time, but those who dare to admit their mistakes when they are wrong, walk away when they incur losses, and never confront the market head-on.