That night, I sat watching the chart dance, my eyes were drooping from sleepiness. Seeing a tasty opportunity, I opened a Long position x10, telling myself: “Set a take profit and sleep for a while, in the morning my account will bloom.”
But… because I was “lazy” to set a stop loss, I thought the price surely couldn’t go down to that level overnight. A deadly mistake!
The next morning, I turned on my phone. No longer the bright green of my dreams, only a cold notification: ACCOUNT = 0. The chart was bright red, the price had plunged straight down to hell while I was sound asleep.
The feeling at that moment… was like someone had drained all the blood from my body. I finally understood: Futures don’t sleep, but I do — and just one night, the market can take everything away.
