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That early morning, I personally pressed the button to go all-in long

At 3:17 a.m., I stared at the INIT candlestick chart on my phone, my fingers trembling slightly.

0.17378. That was its low for the night. It had plunged all the way from 0.25, dropping 30 percent. The group chat was full of people wailing. Some said the team had abandoned the project; others said this was the final shakeout. I stared at the long lower wick, and my heart suddenly began to race.

“A crash is an opportunity.” I had no idea where I’d heard that, but the words kept circling in my mind like a spell.

I opened the futures trading screen, my finger hovering over it. I still had 23,000 U in my account—three months’ salary. I took a deep breath, cranked the leverage up to 20x, and went all-in long at an entry price of 0.17520.

A red warning popped up: Estimated liquidation price: 0.16850. I hesitated for 0.3 seconds, then tapped Confirm.

For the first two hours, the market moved just as I’d hoped. INIT slowly climbed back from 0.175 to 0.19. My unrealized profit showed up in green, and I even started imagining doubling my money. I poured myself a glass of water, leaned back in my chair, and thought I was a genius.

Then, at 5:42 a.m., a huge red candle came crashing down from nowhere.

The price plunged straight from 0.19 to 0.172. My liquidation price was 0.16850, and the system started bombarding me with notifications. I fumbled around, trying to add margin, but I couldn’t get my finger to hit the right input box.

0.170. 0.169. 0.1685.

A message suddenly appeared on the screen: Your position has been liquidated.

I froze. 23,000 U—gone. It didn’t disappear gradually. It was as if it had never existed, wiped out in a matter of seconds.

I turned off my phone, lay down on the bed, and stared at the ceiling. It was already getting light outside, and I could hear a street-cleaning truck downstairs. I thought back to when I’d first started trading crypto three months earlier: I’d made 2,000 yuan and been so happy that I treated my friends to hot pot. Now I couldn’t even afford hot pot.

The most ironic part was that when I opened the app at noon the next day, INIT was back up to 0.208. If I hadn’t used leverage, if I’d just bought the spot asset, I’d be in profit now.

Twenty-times leverage turned my call on the market from “right” into “dead.”

Later, I saw an older guy in the group chat say something. I took a screenshot and saved it on my phone. Every time I feel like opening a futures position, I pull it up and read it:

“The crypto world never runs out of opportunities. What’s in short supply is people who survive long enough to see the next one.”

After that day, I withdrew all the money from my futures account. I didn’t move it to another exchange to keep gambling—I transferred it back to my bank account. I set myself one rule: never touch anything with more than 1x leverage.

Two months later, I bought some ETH on the spot market at 2311. This time, there was no leverage, no liquidation price, and no trembling at three in the morning. If it went up, I’d be happy. If it went down, I’d treat it as saving money.

I finally understood something: in crypto, staying alive matters ten thousand times more than making money fast.

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