I met a driver who runs ride-hailing cars online. By day, he drives; at night, after he finishes, he stays by his parking position to make a living. In early August, the market was a bit unstable. The position he held was up by a few tens of thousands. As it kept rising, his heart kept itching.
That night at 12:30, he finished work and went back to his rental room. He stared at the screen for almost twenty minutes, hesitating. On one side, he had to go out driving again the next morning at 6:30—if he didn’t clear the position, he couldn’t sleep easily. On the other side, the market didn’t seem like it was at the end yet. He couldn’t bear to close it and lock in the gains like that.
His finger hovered over the button to clear the position for a long time. In the end, he pulled it back. He thought, let’s wait; he’ll run at the high point tomorrow. He casually placed a take-profit order, but didn’t set a stop-loss, then went to bed.
The next morning, when the alarm rang at 6:00, he fumbled for his phone in a daze—then his face went pale at once. During the night, the market basically pierced him like a needle: the take-profit order didn’t trigger. Instead, his position broke through the cost line. The small tens of thousands in unrealized profit overnight turned into a loss of nearly ten thousand.
Later, he told me: if that night he’d just clenched his teeth and hit the button, he’d already have locked in the gains by now. Too bad that twenty minutes of hesitation rewrote the ending.
Have you ever had a night where a moment of hesitation changed the outcome?
#币圈故事 #Risk
That night at 12:30, he finished work and went back to his rental room. He stared at the screen for almost twenty minutes, hesitating. On one side, he had to go out driving again the next morning at 6:30—if he didn’t clear the position, he couldn’t sleep easily. On the other side, the market didn’t seem like it was at the end yet. He couldn’t bear to close it and lock in the gains like that.
His finger hovered over the button to clear the position for a long time. In the end, he pulled it back. He thought, let’s wait; he’ll run at the high point tomorrow. He casually placed a take-profit order, but didn’t set a stop-loss, then went to bed.
The next morning, when the alarm rang at 6:00, he fumbled for his phone in a daze—then his face went pale at once. During the night, the market basically pierced him like a needle: the take-profit order didn’t trigger. Instead, his position broke through the cost line. The small tens of thousands in unrealized profit overnight turned into a loss of nearly ten thousand.
Later, he told me: if that night he’d just clenched his teeth and hit the button, he’d already have locked in the gains by now. Too bad that twenty minutes of hesitation rewrote the ending.
Have you ever had a night where a moment of hesitation changed the outcome?
#币圈故事 #Risk