ZaidSohail
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Bearish
💸 I Lost Over $1,000 in One Night — All Because I Ignored One Thing 📉
I don’t usually share personal losses, but this one stung — and it taught me something I’ll never forget.
Last week, I was holding a leveraged long on ETH and a few altcoins (mainly LINK, SOL, and a small bag of ARB).
Everything looked great — strong charts, momentum building, funding rates stable. Then suddenly… boom.
📢 Trump made a surprise announcement about expanding tariffs on China and revisiting U.S. tech restrictions.
Markets panicked. The DXY spiked. BTC dumped. Altcoins followed. In a matter of hours, my stop-loss didn’t trigger on one trade, and I lost over $1,000.
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📉 What Went Wrong
🔻 I was too focused on charts.
🔻 I didn’t check the macro calendar or geopolitical headlines.
🔻 I went 4x leverage — and left it overnight.
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🧠 What I Learned
✅ Always watch for macro events: Fed speeches, elections, global news, trade policies — they move crypto harder than charts sometimes.
✅ Use hard stop-losses — not just mental ones.
✅ Leverage is a weapon — don’t treat it like a cheat code.
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✍️ Final Thoughts
This $1,000 loss wasn’t just money — it was tuition.
I’m sharing this so you don’t have to pay the same price.
#MyTradingStyle #GENIUSActPass $BTC
#FOMCMeeting $ETH
I don’t usually share personal losses, but this one stung — and it taught me something I’ll never forget.
Last week, I was holding a leveraged long on ETH and a few altcoins (mainly LINK, SOL, and a small bag of ARB).
Everything looked great — strong charts, momentum building, funding rates stable. Then suddenly… boom.
📢 Trump made a surprise announcement about expanding tariffs on China and revisiting U.S. tech restrictions.
Markets panicked. The DXY spiked. BTC dumped. Altcoins followed. In a matter of hours, my stop-loss didn’t trigger on one trade, and I lost over $1,000.
⸻
📉 What Went Wrong
🔻 I was too focused on charts.
🔻 I didn’t check the macro calendar or geopolitical headlines.
🔻 I went 4x leverage — and left it overnight.
⸻
🧠 What I Learned
✅ Always watch for macro events: Fed speeches, elections, global news, trade policies — they move crypto harder than charts sometimes.
✅ Use hard stop-losses — not just mental ones.
✅ Leverage is a weapon — don’t treat it like a cheat code.
⸻
✍️ Final Thoughts
This $1,000 loss wasn’t just money — it was tuition.
I’m sharing this so you don’t have to pay the same price.
#MyTradingStyle #GENIUSActPass $BTC
#FOMCMeeting $ETH
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