In crypto, the easiest thing to get wrong isn’t the market—it’s losing money in your account without even knowing how much.
1. Your cost basis after adding to a position isn’t the average of the two prices.
You spend 10,000 U to buy a coin at 10 U and get 1,000 coins.
Then you spend another 10,000 U to buy it at 5 U and get 2,000 coins.
You’ve invested 20,000 U in total and hold 3,000 coins, so your cost is about 6.67 U—not 7.5 U.
When the quantities differ, you can’t just take a simple average of the prices.
2. Making 1% a day sounds easy, but compounding isn’t that simple.
With 100,000 U, after 250 trading days at 1% growth per day, you’d theoretically have 1.32 million U.
But that’s a mathematical result, not a steady return.
Fees, drawdowns, losing days, and missed opportunities can all change the numbers.
3. A high win rate doesn’t mean you’ll necessarily make money. $BTC
With a 60% win rate, you gain 10% on each win and lose 10% on each loss.
The theoretical result after 100 trades depends on the actual return base for each trade and the compounding path.
You can’t subtract 40% from 60% and claim a 300% return.
Work out the risk-reward ratio before talking about the win rate.
4. The higher the leverage, the less room for error. $QQQB
With 100x leverage, a 1% move in the opposite direction could result in a major loss of your margin.
In practice, you also need to account for maintenance margin, fees, and liquidation rules.
Crypto has no shortage of indicators or coins that surge in price.
What’s easiest to overlook is the amount you buy, your actual cost, trading fees, and position risk.
Don’t just ask how much you could make on your next trade.
First, get your own numbers straight.
That’s how you avoid repeating many losses that could have been prevented.
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1. Your cost basis after adding to a position isn’t the average of the two prices.
You spend 10,000 U to buy a coin at 10 U and get 1,000 coins.
Then you spend another 10,000 U to buy it at 5 U and get 2,000 coins.
You’ve invested 20,000 U in total and hold 3,000 coins, so your cost is about 6.67 U—not 7.5 U.
When the quantities differ, you can’t just take a simple average of the prices.
2. Making 1% a day sounds easy, but compounding isn’t that simple.
With 100,000 U, after 250 trading days at 1% growth per day, you’d theoretically have 1.32 million U.
But that’s a mathematical result, not a steady return.
Fees, drawdowns, losing days, and missed opportunities can all change the numbers.
3. A high win rate doesn’t mean you’ll necessarily make money. $BTC
With a 60% win rate, you gain 10% on each win and lose 10% on each loss.
The theoretical result after 100 trades depends on the actual return base for each trade and the compounding path.
You can’t subtract 40% from 60% and claim a 300% return.
Work out the risk-reward ratio before talking about the win rate.
4. The higher the leverage, the less room for error. $QQQB
With 100x leverage, a 1% move in the opposite direction could result in a major loss of your margin.
In practice, you also need to account for maintenance margin, fees, and liquidation rules.
Crypto has no shortage of indicators or coins that surge in price.
What’s easiest to overlook is the amount you buy, your actual cost, trading fees, and position risk.
Don’t just ask how much you could make on your next trade.
First, get your own numbers straight.
That’s how you avoid repeating many losses that could have been prevented.
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