Don’t Blame Every Liquidation on the Market
I’ve seen far too many liquidated accounts over the years. If you tell me it was all because the market was out to get them, I don’t buy it.
The market doesn’t liquidate you—you walk straight into the blade yourself.
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You know perfectly well that the higher the leverage, the greater the risk, but you still max out your position to gamble on a big win. Before entering a trade, you never work out how much volatility it can withstand. You only focus on “how much can I make?” When losses hit your psychological limit, you know you should get out, but you keep holding on and waiting for a rebound.
How did you lose your money? The market didn’t take it from you—you handed it over yourself.
People who’ve been liquidated keep making the same few mistakes.
Positions that are too large. You can’t even withstand a normal pullback. Your account is gone before your prediction has time to play out. When you’re all-in, you think you’re a genius. After liquidation, you realize you were gambling with your life. So what if you got the direction right? With a position that big, you still can’t withstand the volatility.
No stop-loss. You can’t bring yourself to close a losing position, so you keep holding on until you’re liquidated. You get through it once and think you can do it again. Then one time you’re wrong, and it’s all over. Small losses are a cost; big losses knock you out of the game. A stop-loss isn’t admitting defeat—it’s keeping yourself in the game.
Trading against the trend. You aggressively short when prices rise and desperately buy the dip when they fall. You’re going against the trend. You think you’re smarter than the market, and the market shows you who’s really smarter.
If you’re guilty of even one of these three, liquidation is only a matter of time.
A lot of people think market makers are out to get them. Most of the time, though, they’re just repeatedly getting burned by their own bad habits.
To trade futures steadily, direction is only the starting point. Risk management is what keeps you alive.
Before entering a trade, work out exactly how much you could lose if you’re wrong, and whether you can accept that loss. If you can’t, stay out. Keep your position size at a level that lets you sleep at night. Leverage is for reducing the amount of capital tied up, not for gambling with your life. Once you set a stop-loss, don’t move it. When it’s hit, get out.
People get liquidated not because they’re unlucky, but because they haven’t established firm rules.
If you’re still getting liquidated, don’t rush into your next trade. In your current state, every trade you open will end in liquidation. Come talk to me. I’ll help you plug the causes of your liquidations one by one—how to size positions, set stop-losses, and follow the trend. I’ll show you in real time. You’re not unlucky; you just need someone to keep you in check. #ADA涨10%突破0.27美元