The recent trades have completely made me understand what it means to "keep falling into the same pit over and over again."

First, there was the ZEC trade. My short position was directly wiped out, and by the time the market moved down, I had already exited — that feeling is truly uncomfortable. I thought that was embarrassing enough, but then ETH was even more outrageous. I opened a short at 3170 and added to it at 3250. It looked like I was about to make a profit, but I couldn’t resist closing the position. When the market finally dropped, I realized what I had missed — my mindset instantly collapsed.

What’s even more painful is that when the price dropped to the 6x range, I still hadn’t learned to wait. In the end, I made a rather hasty decision and was stopped out again.

Thinking back now, these operations are like a complete 'collection of negative lessons': greedily adding to positions without clear risk management, unstable mentality leading to frequent stop-losses, blindly trading without understanding the big picture. These are the most common mistakes in trading.

Honestly, after paying so much tuition, I finally realized these lessons. Next time I feel the urge to do something similar, I need to give myself a serious slap. Some of the pain from trading might be more effective than any theory.