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The Cost of 50x Leverage

At 3 a.m., Xiao Li stared at his phone screen, his fingers trembling slightly.

MUBARAK had just pulled another 15% bullish “big green candle.” The price surged from 0.061 to 0.079 in a straight line. In his futures account, his unrealized profit already showed 32,200 U. That was his salary for three months.

"If it goes up a little more, I’ll close the position." he told himself. He had repeated this line for six whole hours.

Three days ago, Xiao Li saw a post on the Binance Plaza. Someone claimed that MUBARAK was going to reach one dollar. Back then he thought it was absurd—the coin was only a few cents, how could that be? But over the next two days, MUBARAK rose from 0.04 to 0.07, nearly doubling.

In the group chat, people started posting screenshots of their gains—100,000 U, 500,000 U—filling the screen with green numbers that seemed to burrow into his brain like a virus.

He finally couldn’t take it anymore.

Yesterday afternoon, with only 8,000 U left in his account, he transferred it all to his futures account and opened a 50x long position. Entry price: 0.066. In an instant, the system matched the order and executed the trade. At that moment, his heartbeat pounded like a drum; his palms were soaked with sweat.

At first, the market behaved exactly as he wanted. MUBARAK climbed steadily. His unrealized profit rose from 200 U to 1,000 U, then to 5,000 U. He sent messages in the group: "Brothers, this one is solid." The chat erupted with praise. Some called him “big boss,” others asked him to guide their trades. The feeling of being idolized was more addictive than making money itself.

But at 2:30 a.m., a massive bearish candle suddenly slammed down.

The price dropped from 0.079 straight to 0.068. In just ten minutes, it fell 14%. Xiao Li’s unrealized profit instantly went to zero, and his account began showing losses. He frantically refreshed the page, trying to manually close the position, but network latency made every attempt fail.

The liquidation price was right around 0.065.

He watched helplessly as the price kept sliding—0.064, 0.063, 0.062. Every second felt like a century. When the price finally touched 0.06169, a prompt popped up: the system would liquidate his position automatically.

8,000 U—gone to zero.

He slumped on the bed. The glow from his phone screen cast light onto the ceiling like a cold tombstone. The group chat had gone silent. Those who had been shouting “big boss” earlier—some blew up even sooner than he did; others quietly deleted their posts.

At 8 in the morning, he opened the app. MUBARAK’s price had returned to 0.072—and climbed back up again. If he hadn’t used leverage, if he had simply bought the spot asset, he should be in profit right now.

But in this world, there’s no such thing as “if.”

Xiao Li turned off his phone and stared at the ceiling for a long, long time. He knew that tonight he would open that app again. He would see those green candlestick charts again. And he would feel tempted again. That’s the cruelest part of the crypto world: it always gives you the illusion of a next chance, while quietly taking away all your principal.

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