blew 90% of my port and this cycle's gains, not afraid to share here's what happened thus far : - oversizing : got comfortable with a decently large port and started overbetting to match the holdings of people with much larger ports than me, usually ended with me selling at a small percentage loss in order to preserve the massive amount of capital (to me) that i put in, resulting in a slow, but sizeable, bleed in my port. - impatience : I would be up a solid 2-5x on a play that I thought would be a 20-50x, I'd see a slight downtrend and would take the minuscule profits in order to alleviate my worries. The coin would then typically do the 20-50x that i foresaw. - trying the cupsey method : I think every trader tried it, the new pairs method, but nobody I personally knew at the time really tried it like cupsey, the goal was typically to buy under 100k and pray for a couple mil or 8 fig MC. I almost always got burned or rugged. - borrowing conviction : there were a lot of times where I didn't develop my own thesis and I traded based on the conviction other traders had. 8/10 times that happened I would overbet and get SEVERELY burned with nobody to blame but myself. - no due diligence/copytrading : if I saw certain wallets buy I would blind copytrade and worry about due diligence later. I learned the problem with copytrading is that you typically know nobody's price targets and WILL get burned 9/10 if you're even SLIGHTLY greedy. - greediness : I would go up a substantial amount, 20-25x even on a coin, and I would say to myself but what if this is the 100x, what if this is the 1000x and it always resulted in me holding for giga long and selling at a loss. I didn't know when to close out a trade EVER, felt like I ALWAYS misplayed it. I've now officially made a bag and lost it, made a bag and lost it, made a bag and lost it, made a bag and lost it, and made a bag and lost it. I'm not bitter about it, I wasn't ready for that kind of money at the time anyway. Feels like I finally have woken up to the fact that greediness is what has killed me in every single scenario. So did trying to play the game like everyone else. I don't think I'm one of those traders that can sit at the screen and trade 50 coins a day and end up profitable, I think I'm more of a few trades a week IF THAT kind of guy (considering I almost ALWAYS have the right idea on which coins are gonna giga send over a few days to a week) Feels like I've tried to play the game everybody else's way, which was a complete skill issue on my part. Time to change it up and focus on my strategies and frameworks. Let’s run it back (and keep it this time) - OG