#数字资产市场动态 After such a long market cycle, I increasingly understand one principle—what determines how far you can go in the futures market might not be how good your skills are, but your ability to resist trading impulsively.
To put it bluntly, when beginners first start out, they usually have this mindset: not holding a position feels uncomfortable, the market moves slightly, and they get itchy to trade, wanting to participate in every direction, fearing to miss any upward opportunity. It’s as if not placing an order is wasting time.
But in reality? The traders who can survive longer and earn steadily have just one secret—learning to say "no" to most trades. Your profit gap often isn’t about how many correct trades you make, but about how many trades you avoid that shouldn’t have been made in the first place.
**Look at those trades in your account that got stuck:**
Major losses rarely happen because the core strategy hit a black swan—more often, it’s because you entered positions where you shouldn’t have; you see unclear signals and still want to gamble; or you’re just bored and thinking "let’s see if I can catch the bottom." Assets like $ETH with high volatility are more prone to this impulsive trading.
Taking two minutes to calm down before placing an order might be the difference between your account’s gains and losses compared to others.
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SchrodingerProfit
· 17h ago
Really, the itchiness is a problem that needs to be addressed. I used to be like this—anxious to death without any orders. Now I realize that most of the time, just holding back is winning.
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YieldWhisperer
· 18h ago
Really, boredom is the number one killer of accounts... I just went into a few bad trades out of boredom and ended up losing everything.
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LightningHarvester
· 18h ago
Exactly, itching hands are the root of losing money. That's how I ended up getting in.
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OnChainDetective
· 18h ago
nah fr though, every blowup i've traced on-chain tells the same story—transaction pattern suggests these aren't strategy failures, they're just plain fomo. wallet clustering indicates 80% of liquidations come from positions that had zero business existing. statistical anomaly? not really. typical rugpull signature of your own hands doing the damage lol
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MainnetDelayedAgain
· 18h ago
According to the database, my account lock-up records have been organized into archival-level documents... Calm down for two minutes? Friend, I took two years to calmly realize this.
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MrRightClick
· 18h ago
Really, the itch to trade is a trader's occupational disease. I can especially understand that restless feeling, but losses really happen this way.
#数字资产市场动态 After such a long market cycle, I increasingly understand one principle—what determines how far you can go in the futures market might not be how good your skills are, but your ability to resist trading impulsively.
To put it bluntly, when beginners first start out, they usually have this mindset: not holding a position feels uncomfortable, the market moves slightly, and they get itchy to trade, wanting to participate in every direction, fearing to miss any upward opportunity. It’s as if not placing an order is wasting time.
But in reality? The traders who can survive longer and earn steadily have just one secret—learning to say "no" to most trades. Your profit gap often isn’t about how many correct trades you make, but about how many trades you avoid that shouldn’t have been made in the first place.
**Look at those trades in your account that got stuck:**
Major losses rarely happen because the core strategy hit a black swan—more often, it’s because you entered positions where you shouldn’t have; you see unclear signals and still want to gamble; or you’re just bored and thinking "let’s see if I can catch the bottom." Assets like $ETH with high volatility are more prone to this impulsive trading.
Taking two minutes to calm down before placing an order might be the difference between your account’s gains and losses compared to others.