I Lost $12,000 in Crypto — Here’s What No One Told Me 💥💸

About 4 years ago, a friend said, “Bro, get into crypto — it’s easy money.”

Everyone was hyping Binance, so I jumped in. No research. Just vibes.

Bought whatever coins friends mentioned. At first? Small gains. I was hooked.

So I went all-in.

$12,000. My entire savings. 💰🔥

Then boom… the market crashed.

I had entered at the peak of the bull run.

Charts went red. Portfolio got wrecked.

And what did I hear everywhere?

“You’re not losing if you don’t sell.”

Biggest lie I ever believed. 🙄

I held. And held. And watched my savings vanish.

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Truth is:

Not selling doesn’t protect you — it traps you.

If I had just used a stop-loss, I could’ve cut losses early and bought back better.

But I didn’t.

And that one mistake cost me thousands. 😓💔

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What saved me a little?

A degen coin called $SWRV. It had pump-dump cycles.

I finally used stop-loss & sell orders to ride the waves, grow my stack, and claw back some losses.

Still risky. But now I had a plan. 🎯

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Lessons I learned the hard way:

✔️ Don’t follow hype — follow facts.

✔️ That “you’re only down if you sell” line is a trap.

✔️ Stop-loss is your shield, not your enemy.

✔️ Build a strategy. Stick to it.

✔️ Protect your capital like your life depends on it — because sometimes, it does.

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This isn’t financial advice. This is survival advice.

If this helped, smash that like & share so others don’t repeat my mistake.

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