The Truth About Retail Investors' Shrinking Accounts: It's Not About Vision, But Self-Control

I often see investors like this: jumping in all at once, eyes glued to the K-line, unable to move. When the price jumps, they imagine a 10x return; when it dips slightly, their fingers tremble, wanting to cut their positions. The whole person is being led by the trend.

The most heartbreaking are those sideways phases. Watching the coin price bounce back and forth within a certain range, feeling more and more frustrated. Waiting and waiting, finally unable to hold back — selling just before a real rebound. Turning around to leave, and then the market starts to rise. This makes the heart race even more; chasing in again, only to get trapped. After all the fuss, the price of $BTC and #数字资产动态追踪 hardly moves, but a chunk of your principal has evaporated.

This cycle of repeatedly taking losses isn’t really about the market itself, but falling into three psychological dead ends:

First trap: Thinking frequent trading can relieve anxiety. In fact, each trade is just an action to soothe insecurity, not rational judgment.

Second trap: Being completely hostage to short-term fluctuations. Ignoring the overall trend, your mind is full of minute-by-minute oscillations.

Third trap: Letting emotions rewrite your trading plan. Thinking about a rebound when you should cut losses, and greedily pushing up profits when you should take them.

How to break free? It’s actually not that complicated:

• Limit yourself to no more than 3 trades per day to strongly reduce the desire to operate;

• Write down your stop-loss and take-profit levels before placing an order, and only act when the price reaches those levels — no action otherwise;

• During sideways periods, simply turn off your trading software to prevent market noise from draining your nerves.

Those who can preserve their money in the crypto world are always the ones who are "willing to hold cash and brave waiting." Market opportunities are always there, but the real scarcity is having the discipline not to be led astray by emotions.