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**This is a true story that happened to me about 7 years ago… I lost more than 4500 dollars! 💥**

When I started trading, I was only focused on Bitcoin.

I was learning and experimenting for many long months, opening trades with very small amounts for practice, then after weeks of learning, I decided to start my real journey with a capital of about 300–400 dollars (to be honest, I don't remember the exact number).

At first, I was opening trades of only 1–2 dollars, and I was very cautious… and the surprise? 95% of my trades were successful!

I was shocked: I'm not a professional! Yes, I learned, but I'm not an expert… and after just one month, the 300 dollars turned into 900 dollars! 😱

I was very happy, even though I wasn't sleeping well because I was monitoring my trades all the time, and that was a big mistake.

**Then the problem came…**

I started to trust myself too much (and that's the worst thing in trading!).

I told myself: Why not become a millionaire before the end of the year? and I started increasing the value of my trades.

In just one week, the 900 turned into 1600 dollars! and by the end of the month, I had about 3500 dollars! 🤯

The third month… I began opening trades of no less than 300–400 dollars!

I felt like I was the “king of trading”…

**Then came the black day.**

I opened a 300 dollar trade (short), and it started losing: -50, -100, -200…

I didn't set a stop loss, because I was monitoring everything myself, and that was the biggest mistake.

24 hours passed and the trade was in the red, then 48 hours and my loss exceeded -1000… so what did I do?

I added 1000 dollars