#数字资产市场动态 Do you think understanding candlestick charts is enough to make a profit?

Stop dreaming. The traps set for retail investors in the crypto world are far more numerous than you imagine.

I once lost 800,000 in the futures market — and the most ironic part is, I predicted the direction of those market moves correctly every time, yet I still ended up losing everything.

Only after opening the settlement statement did I realize: it’s not the market that causes losses, but stepping into one trap after another laid out by the big players. Each time, it felt like a carefully designed hunter’s trap.

**Trap One: Going in too early, the big players counterattack with a reverse needle**

As soon as the market stirs, you can’t hold back. Seeing a breakout line, you rush in with full position.

Then the big players give you a quick spike in the opposite direction.

You get harvested and exit the market.

The market doesn’t reward your courage; it punishes those who are too eager.

**Trap Two: Setting rigid stop-losses**

Hard stop-loss numbers like 3% or 5% are like live targets in highly volatile futures trading.

I’ve experienced the horror of being swept three times by “false breakouts.” After hitting the stop-loss, the market immediately reverses and surges in the direction I originally predicted.

The market makers take the chips, tally up their gains, and then prepare for the next round of harvesting.

**Trap Three: Heavy position betting, entrusting your account to Lady Luck**

At the moment of going all-in, you’re no longer a trader — you become a gambler.

So what if you guess the right direction? Just three or five reverse K-lines can wipe out your account.

When the margin call popped up that day, I stared blankly at the screen, feeling like the whole world had frozen.

After experiencing these, I set three iron rules for myself, and it was these that helped me climb out of the deep loss pit:

**Rule One: Always diversify your positions; never bet everything on a single trade.**

**Rule Two: Be flexible with stop-losses, adjust according to market volatility, don’t stick rigidly to numbers.**

**Rule Three: If you can’t judge the market, take a break. Better to miss opportunities than make mistakes.**

Sticking to this methodology for a year, my account tripled.

In this market, the real winners are never those “smart” people who think they can predict the market.

It’s those who understand that “surviving is the greatest victory.”

They know that trading isn’t about prediction, but about survival.

Understand this, and your trading logic will change completely. No more frequent trades, no more reckless all-in bets — instead, every move is made with risk control as the priority.

This is the correct way to trade futures.