Why is it so hard to make money with contracts? I’ve observed many traders and found that the problem isn’t really in their trading skills, but in their mindset and rule awareness.



Have you ever thought—before placing an order, the most important thing isn’t analyzing the market, but asking yourself: how will this trade end? When to take profit, when to cut losses? Many people think the opposite—they only focus on how to enter, never considering how to exit. In the fluctuations of coins like #数字资产市场动态 , @E5@, so many traders get caught up in the trap of "not knowing when to stop."

The words "take profit" and "stop loss" sound simple and everyone understands them, but how many actually execute them? When entering a trade, they swear they will set these levels, but once the market moves against them, they immediately change their tune: "It will rebound." And then? They hold on more and more painfully, eventually either being forced out at the lowest point or having their account blow up, with no chance to react.

There’s also a strange phenomenon—making a small profit makes them nervous and eager to run, while losing money makes them hold on stubbornly. This contradictory psychology seems to work in the short term, but in the long run, it’s inevitable that the account can’t withstand it. The problem isn’t just a single trade; it’s the fundamental flaw in this way of thinking.

Traders who truly last long don’t rely on luck or inspiration. They have a clear plan and explicit rules. If they make a wrong judgment? That’s okay, because they’ve already set their stop-loss points, so their account won’t bleed heavily, and their mindset won’t collapse. In contrast, those who trade impulsively based on feelings will only face liquidation sooner or later.
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TokenDustCollectorvip
· 5h ago
That's so true. I used to be the kind of fool who only thought about how to get in and not how to get out.
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GasGasGasBrovip
· 5h ago
You're right, stop-loss is easy to say but deadly to implement.
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RugPullAlarmvip
· 5h ago
That's right, but I find on-chain data even more straightforward — for those liquidation addresses, you can see exactly how they got wiped out by tracing the fund flows. It's always the same pattern: greed + no stop-loss.
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ImpermanentPhobiavip
· 5h ago
Oh my, this is just my daily routine. Setting stop-loss is like useless decoration.
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