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After a losing trade, I used to double down on ETH too quickly. It wasn’t strategy,it was anger. Revenge trading always made things worse.

Eventually, I learned to step back. Losses don’t need instant payback. They need clarity. That mindset saved me from bigger disasters.Do you fight the market or pause when you’re hit?

I don’t try & trade small timeframes, I try to sell when I think the price is hot in a bull market (we haven’t seen that yet this year) & I then wait until the bear market 12-18 months after the top is in to but back. I work over 3-4 year periods. I find it much easier to take nice more likely profits this way. Short term trading is like playing roulette, you are at the mercy of market makers.

It’s difficult to trade on shorter timeframes, because I’ve experienced that myself. For me, it’s still better to use the daily and 4-hour timeframes, since they give a clearer view of the actual direction of a coin’s price, whether it’s Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency.

Although it’s not 100% accurate, the risk is still lower compared to shorter timeframes, which are much riskier and can quickly lead to liquidation for those who attempt them.
But in the end, it’s still a matter of personal choice in this regard.

Just learn to stop whenever you've got losses already with your trades. You don't have to revenge trading because you're in full emotion mode and that's going to take away what you've got left and all you want to do is to trade and recover asap. That won't happen and instead, you're going to go with further loss because you're not controlling yourself. And that's good that you've learned that you have to step back and stop when things don't go according to your plans.

It's essential to develop a risk strategy and how to handle it before starting to trade. Emotional trading often leads to losses, but according to Ethereum's charts over the past 12 months, we haven't been in a downward trend.

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So how did you make losses? And there is still an uptrend.

I got massively rekt earlier in the year during the time Trump introduced tariffs earlier in the year because I was revenge trading my ETH loss. The trade was going in my direction for most of the time until when everything started going down and it was down only for about 2 months straight. Revenge trading is something I've learnt the hard way and I'm still building the discipline to behave myself regardless of the size of the loss.

Cooling off time is the best approach after limit trading, and if you have the two working for you as a trader you be at a better position all the time as a trader, what most trader's don't know is that, chasing profits in trading will get you exusted quickly as a trader since you tend to make unstable decisions at that point in time, but if you ease off and cool off you make better, clearer trading decisions in the end.

In my early years of trading, that was how I used to trade, but after much trading psychology training, I don't fight the market anymore. The best I can do is just to take a step back after each lost and try to reduce my number of trades a day

You are not ready to trade in that case so maybe try to re evaluate your strategy and try to do more research first especially on area on where you commit those mistakes. Learn to strengthen up your emotion since trading is not an activity for weak hands. If you sell out of panic then you will never get any result on trading.

That's why you need to be prepared not only financially but also emotionally since trading is stressful activity. But for sure if you are consistent doing this you would learn a lot from your experience then could able to learn from those past mistakes you have made.