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The market is dangerous because of our illusions.
It's this constant:
"Ah, I should have..."
"Here were such opportunities..."
"And every time we look back, we definitely know what we should have done and how. But in the moment, something went wrong — and we regret, regret, regret."
🧠 it consumes all our thoughts, and we keep replaying fantastic scenarios of how everything could have been. But in the moment, we still don't know what to do.

1. Classic trading with stops
This approach is familiar to most traders.
📌 The logic is simple:
opened a position
set a Stop Loss
either made a profit or took a loss
Pros
✔️ Simplicity ✔️ Clear risk control ✔️ Doesn't require complex infrastructure
Cons
❌ Frequent stop hunts (especially in a volatile market) ❌ The market 'collects liquidity' before a move ❌ Psychological pressure (fear of loss, revenge trading) ❌ Every mistake = realized loss

Hedging: from John Paulson to Binance Futures — how tech has changed the game
In 2007, John Paulson executed one of the most profitable trades in history, personally raking in around $4 billion. But few realize how challenging it was back then compared to today's trading capabilities.

John Paulson is one of the brightest examples of how savvy hedging can turn deep market analysis into epic-scale wealth.
The Start of the Journey
John Alfred Paulson was born in 1955 in New York. He worked at the investment bank Bear Stearns and later founded his own hedge fund, Paulson & Co., in 1994. By 2006, his fund was relatively small and not well-known—managing around $140 million.

The most mature model often sits in the middle.
When:
• part of the capital works calmly and systematically;
• part is used for active ideas;
• a person doesn't become a market hostage.
⚙️ Then trading stops being a source of chaos and turns into a strategic tool.

When folks first hear the term 'hedge fund', most think of something complex, exclusive, and almost 'elite'. But the name actually has a pretty straightforward and logical origin.
What does the word 'hedge' mean?
The word hedge translates from English to mean 'fence', 'protection', or 'insurance'.

Over the years of watching the market, I've noticed that most investors can be roughly divided into three groups.
⚠️ No approach can be labeled as absolutely right or wrong — it all depends on your goals, time horizon, and attitude towards money.
1️⃣ Investing as capital accumulation
This is an open system with a constant influx of funds.