2026-01-02 09:25:10

Three years ago, I only had $3,000 and charged into the cryptocurrency market like a headless fly. I couldn’t understand what candlesticks were, and every day I just followed the "gurus" in the group shouting buy or sell, step by step. The result was naturally repeated disappointment from stop-losses. At my worst, I could lose half a month’s salary in a single trading day.

It was late at night when I flipped through my trading records, trembling—suddenly I realized a cruel truth: everyone’s profits come from understanding the market, while every penny I lost was due to complete ignorance. At that moment, fear overwhelmed me. If I kept going like this, my account would be wiped out, and my confidence would vanish.

The first decision I made was to immediately leave all trading groups, completely cutting off reliance on shout signals. Looking back now, this was probably the wisest choice I’ve made in my trading career.

The period when I was analyzing charts was a nightmare. I couldn’t understand what candlesticks, moving averages, or volume meant at all. But I stubbornly treated the charts as textbooks, staying up late to watch the market, pulling historical data during the day to review, and recording every detail of each trade. Although that half-year was exhausting, it became the fastest phase of my progress.

About half a year later, I finally started to get a little clue. Not that I suddenly became an expert, but I began to understand what the market was saying. The reactions of prices at support and resistance levels, the market sentiment revealed behind volume, these previously ignored pieces of information started to become important references before I placed orders.

The most important lesson was: the market always moves along the path of least resistance. This sounds simple, but truly understanding and applying this principle in practice took countless trial and error in trading.

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GateUser-e19e9c10

· 14h ago

Honestly, copying trades really is money-making. I only realized this after experiencing some losses. The moment I left the group was truly a turning point, more effective than anything else. Staying up late for half a year to monitor the market is indeed painful, but I feel like this is just the process of paying tuition fees. That last sentence was brilliant: the path of least resistance. It sounds simple, but actually executing it is incredibly difficult.

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MetaNeighbor

· 17h ago

This is the difference between the chosen ones and the newbies: those willing to leave the group have already won half the battle. Really, following others' calls blindly should have died out long ago. Doing your own research is the true way. The insights gained from half a year of staying up late to monitor the market are worth much more than paying for courses—it's all about this understanding. The least resistance path—it's easy to say but really hard to do. I'm still in the trial-and-error phase.

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PanicSeller69

· 01-03 19:58

Leaving the group is really the lifesaver; how many people are still getting scammed there?

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NFTArtisanHQ

· 01-02 09:55

the real paradigm shift here isn't the charts or the numbers... it's the moment you stopped outsourcing your cognition to telegram shillers and started reading the market's actual text. that's the aesthetic of true literacy—painful, unglamorous, utterly necessary.

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PortfolioAlert

· 01-02 09:55

Leaving the signal group at that step is really crucial; otherwise, you'll just become a part of the leek processing factory assembly line. Burning the midnight oil for half a year to review sounds crazy, but it is truly the most valuable investment in trading. The phrase "the path of least resistance in the market" sounds simple, but how much blood and sweat does it take to actually follow it? That 3000U loss was really heartbreaking, but at least there was still a chance to wake up; some people never wake up. This story tells us that the most expensive tuition in crypto trading is not the money lost.

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AirdropLicker

· 01-02 09:52

That's right, signal calling really is just a trick to cut leeks, I should have quit long ago... But I want to ask, how much did you lose after half a year of entering with 3000U? --- Leaving the trading group was something I only realized later; if I had known earlier, I wouldn't have paid so much tuition. --- K-line, support levels, resistance levels... sound simple, but trying it in real trading shows how tricky it is. Honestly, these things require you to suffer and figure out through experience. --- Reviewing trades is definitely addictive, it’s exhausting, but over time you can really start to smell something, the market’s flavor. --- The path of least resistance... sounds right, but I still get trapped every time, maybe I just lack the talent. --- Thinking of my most embarrassing moment, losing half a month's salary in a day, that feeling was intense and exhilarating. --- This guy’s path isn’t exactly the nightmare of most retail traders, luckily he managed to come out alive. --- So the key is to have your own trading system; you can't rely entirely on others’ words, you need to refine it yourself. --- By the way, during those six months, didn’t your account blow up? Feels like 4 out of 5 trades are close to a loss.

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OnchainDetective

· 01-02 09:50

According to on-chain data, this guy's trading trajectory is a classic case—from mindless copying of 3000U to independent review, the shift in trading patterns is particularly interesting. Those "experts" calling signals in the groups can be tracked through multiple addresses to basically identify typical "leek" harvesting methods, which is obvious.

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MrRightClick

· 01-02 09:29

Really, starting with 3000U and still making it out alive is already a win. Back then, I was also led by signals to the point of doubting life... Following the trend is just using other people's money to teach yourself; the loss is always your own share. The support and resistance concepts are essentially just磨 (grinding); without 200 trades' worth of blood, you simply can't see through that chart.

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