Took a nasty haircut on the 2nd AI stock pullback. Painful L for my portfolio size, but 100% a skill issue on my end
The post-mortem so you don’t pay the same tuition:
• The trap: Thought I found "the bottom" and sized up on leverage.
• The mistake: Failed my own risk management rules when the tape started slipping
• The reality: Levering into a falling knife isn't trading—it's donating liquidity to market makers.
The hard rule moving forward:
Leverage is strictly for confirmed momentum and structural reclaims, never for bottom-ticking a selloff. Spot is for scaling; leverage in an unconfirmed downtrend is financial suicide.
Sizing down, resetting the mental stack, and waiting for real structure.
The post-mortem so you don’t pay the same tuition:
• The trap: Thought I found "the bottom" and sized up on leverage.
• The mistake: Failed my own risk management rules when the tape started slipping
• The reality: Levering into a falling knife isn't trading—it's donating liquidity to market makers.
The hard rule moving forward:
Leverage is strictly for confirmed momentum and structural reclaims, never for bottom-ticking a selloff. Spot is for scaling; leverage in an unconfirmed downtrend is financial suicide.
Sizing down, resetting the mental stack, and waiting for real structure.
