$ETH That liquidation completely woke him up.
In the early morning voice message, his voice seemed drained: "Winning three trades in a row, with a floating profit of 20%, I feel like I can do this."
$SOL Risk control discipline? Long forgotten.
"Just this once, it can't be wrong." He heavily leveraged and jumped in.
The market first gave him a taste of success, and he screenshot it to share.
$BNB The next second, news struck, and the trend reversed sharply.
Stop-loss didn’t keep up, the exchange's slippage made it worse—within three minutes, the account went from a floating profit of 20% to completely zero.
He spent several hours in front of the computer, his mind blank.
"I studied the technology for a year," he asked me, "why do I still seem like a gambler?"
I told him: what you've learned is never trading; you are just making excuses for your greed.
The real battle in the market is not in the candlesticks but in the moment you control your own hands.
The first thing I had him do was to rebuild everything:
Planning is ironclad.
For every trade, write down the logic, stop-loss, and target in black and white.
If it’s not written, do not place the order.
Stop-loss is breathing.
At the designated point, exit unconditionally.
Losses are costs, not negotiation chips.
Forget about “getting rich quick.”
Treat trading as a tedious job, not an emotional gamble.
The process is taxing.
He often asks me, "Can I go for this one?" My answer is always: "Go back and check your plan."
After three months, he calmed down.
No longer anxiously staring at the market, no longer chasing after surges.
Starting with a small amount, the funds slowly but steadily climbed.
Last week he said: "Now losing money doesn’t panic me, that’s part of the planned cost;
making money doesn’t make me giddy either, that’s the reward for discipline."
He hasn’t fully recovered his losses, but his gaze has already changed.
If you are also experiencing this kind of despair.
Remember: that night which made you feel pain to the bone might be the signal that you truly started.
The key to getting over it is not to find a more miraculous strategy but to be completely honest with yourself and then execute the rules like a machine.
There are always opportunities in the market.
But the precondition is, you must survive to the next bull market.
