True story 👉📉💔 My First Trading Experience: From Excitement to Reality Check 💸
Let me take you back to 2012… the year I stepped into the world of trading — clueless, curious, and completely unprepared. 🙈
🔰 Day 1:
I didn’t even fully understand what trading was!
But I did build a virtual portfolio on MoneyControl, and guess what?
📈 It was up 20% in just a month. I thought, "I'm ready for the real thing!" 💪
🛑 Day 2: The Reality Check
Got my broker credentials. Bought 1 share of Bharti Airtel at ₹360.
It rose by ₹1 and I was already dreaming of Lamborghinis 😅🚗
Then it hit 10 AM…
🔥 Markets started crashing.
📉 Sensex dropped 450 points — one of the worst single-day falls at the time.
I had no idea what to do. No stop-loss, no trend knowledge, no strategy.
Just vibes... and fear. 😰📉
💥 Day 3: The Panic Move
Averaged down like a genius (I thought).
Market? Kept falling.
Portfolio? Bleeding red.
Pain? Unbearable. 💔
Eventually, I gave in and sold everything at a loss.
That was the end of my first trading chapter.
📚 Lesson learned the hard way:
Never trade without a strategy
Technical analysis isn’t just a textbook subject
Risk management is EVERYTHING ⚖️
Follow me 👈 👈 👈 👈
Sometimes failure is the best teacher.
I lost money, but I gained wisdom.
And I never looked at markets the same way again. 💡📊
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