Lessons From Overtrading

[Moxiee]

There was a week when I placed over 40 ETH trades. Small wins, big losses, endless stress. My account balance didn’t move much, but my energy was gone.

That taught me that more trades don’t equal better results. Sometimes waiting for one clean setup is worth more than 20 rushed entries.Are you trading with purpose or just trading to feel busy?

[Oshosondy]

Good point

You will learn as you become more professional in trading.

It is very important not to use high leverage which can be another mistake. You might have a good entry but high leverage can make your position liquidated before the market massively go to your direction.

[BitMaxz]

You are a scalper?
Then if your strategy is scalping, then you can make that many entries in a short period of time.
That's a normal number of trades. Actually, a typical or active scalper can do 20-50 trades per day, and 50 to 100 trades for a full-time scalper.
There's a lot of stress and frustration, and you are forced to trade with lower time frames that need instant decisions.
I've been there before, and honestly, my balance has never been in profit. I have some win trades, but most of them lose. My capital can lose half quickly.
I'm not good at scalping, so I switch to intraday and swing trading.

Intraday: only one trade a day, sometimes none, depending on the current market condition.
But the good thing for intraday is that it can spot a big move, usually at the NY session open.

If you don't want too much stress try intraday instead.

Read this tips: 9 Guidelines to Make Bank and Avoid Getting Rekt

[PX-Z]

You will learn as you become more professional in trading.

You mean you will learn more when you experience more in trading, just like how to manage risk, read market behavior, control emotions, as well as apply strategies. Being long time in trading, or taking more time in trading doesn't make you a professional. But the more you practice, learn in every move/risk, and review your mistakes too, the more professional you will become.

[programmer3666]

overtrading does not only affect your portfolio balance, it also kind of drains your energy, focus and even confidence to some extent. many new traders think more trades mean more profit!!! but most times it just brings more losses and stress. it is better to slow down!! wait for a clear setup and enter with some patience. even one good trade in a week can be more valuable than 20 random ones. trading should be with purpose not just to feel busy or just trying to feel like a trader. like it or not the market will always be there, so there is no need to chase every small move. sometimes the best decision is to stay on the sidelines and protect your capital until the right opportunity shows up!!

[Alphakilo]

You will learn as you become more professional in trading.

You mean you will learn more when you experience more in trading, just like how to manage risk, read market behavior, control emotions, as well as apply strategies. Being long time in trading, or taking more time in trading doesn't make you a professional. But the more you practice, learn in every move/risk, and review your mistakes too, the more professional you will become.

It's true that practice makes perfection and I believe in this case of over trading, one might gain a new wealth of experience as regards what to and not do during trading hours, so as to get the best returns.

So, whether one is trying their best to manage a trading portfolio or in their daily commercial businesses that involves trading, it is important to note that, over trading can be a serious risky endeavor and it creates hazards that make one unable to manage their finances and portfolio properly, because as we know, proper organization is one good trait that makes a successful trader.

[Jegileman]

There was a week when I placed over 40 ETH trades. Small wins, big losses, endless stress. My account balance didn’t move much, but my energy was gone.

That taught me that more trades don’t equal better results. Sometimes waiting for one clean setup is worth more than 20 rushed entries.Are you trading with purpose or just trading to feel busy?

Trading with purpose is the best. Using that method of trading to approach the trading market will make stand well in the market to achieve better results even in the long run. This is where risk management matters. Having a good risk management can even make you not to be on a loss after placing four trades and losing three. Rushing into the market to take every trade without decisively selecting the best of the setups to go well, it will only make you open your chances of risks and losses the more. Trading is a mind game, don’t fall for its trap and stay true to your risk management strategy, it’ll pay well later.

[flapduck]

Overtrading eats edge and attention.

Cap trades/day and max risk per trade (<=1% of equity), enforce a checklisted setup, cut leverage, and force a 1-2 hour cool-off after a loss. Log every trade and review weekly. Automate alerts or use limit orders to remove FOMO.

[mirakal]

There was a week when I placed over 40 ETH trades. Small wins, big losses, endless stress. My account balance didn’t move much, but my energy was gone.

That taught me that more trades don’t equal better results. Sometimes waiting for one clean setup is worth more than 20 rushed entries.Are you trading with purpose or just trading to feel busy?

I guess no one trades simply to gain nothing, profiting is always the ultimate goal. However, you are right there, overtrading will never guarantee massive profits as well. Instead, it will only make you lose faster than what you expect it to be, most especially if you are still in the learning and development process.

Trading is a mental game. Thus, when you overtrade, you are driven mainly by your emotions and impulses, that you end up losing your well-structured trading plans and strategies. That’s the reason why you fail to make more money, but end up losing all your funds.

[Rruchi man]

That taught me that more trades don’t equal better results. Sometimes waiting for one clean setup is worth more than 20 rushed entries.Are you trading with purpose or just trading to feel busy?

There are traders who actually focus on trading only one pair and they have been able to record massive success than other traders who are busy accumulating a lot of trades from different pairs. I think this is a lesson that noob traders will later get to discover that success in trading does not just come from accumulating a lot of trades but actually mastering a few.

It is actually a good thing if you are able to understand a couple of pairs and you are able to trade them successfully, but if do not yet possess that level of skill in trading, you don't need to compare your trades with others who trade multiple pairs. Some of those persons don't even realise that they are making the mistakle of overtrading, an error that is a leading cause of failure that most traders experince.

[LogitechMouse]

There was a week when I placed over 40 ETH trades. Small wins, big losses, endless stress. My account balance didn’t move much, but my energy was gone.

That taught me that more trades don’t equal better results. Sometimes waiting for one clean setup is worth more than 20 rushed entries.Are you trading with purpose or just trading to feel busy?

I'm also in your situation as well, but it didn't reach to a point where I did 40 positions on ETH on a single day.

Maybe the highest was around 20 trades on a single day. Lots of coins being monitored, scalp here, scalp there. Taking profit as soon as it goes up 5-10% and vice-versa, and many more. In the end, I didn't make too much money from it in around 3-4 days of doing it, but what I got was stress, and times where I'm being overwhelmed because of what I'm doing.

Currently, I'm doing 1-3 trades per day and around 1-2 on weekends. That's the sweet spot for me, and there are also times where I don't take any trades at all for a day especially when my positions doesn't close on the same day. Sometimes, 1 trade is better than taking 20 trades because you will be losing with the trading fees. Just have a working strategy, and don't overtrade. At the end of the day, there will always be an opportunity in the market.

[JeffBrad12]

There was a week when I placed over 40 ETH trades. Small wins, big losses, endless stress. My account balance didn’t move much, but my energy was gone.

That taught me that more trades don’t equal better results. Sometimes waiting for one clean setup is worth more than 20 rushed entries.Are you trading with purpose or just trading to feel busy?

Brother, one really good trade is what it take to make it big like people who longed aster on 0.1 and now getting 20x.
Doing overtrade seems like a waste of time and resources in my opinion, the yield was never that great and you frequently do premature profit taking.

After witnessing that there are people who just trade 3-4x a year and created more than 1000% ROI i just realized that maybe I'm approaching trading wrong although I still make profit.
I've reduced my trades significantly nowadays and only waiting for a good chance to happen.

[Oshio-man]

I trade for income purpose, which is the reason I don't rush to trade when I know the market will not going to favour me, it is better you make your winning higher than your losing in crypto trading, it will make you to have enough energy to add more coins to your trading because you are getting it right, but if your losses is higher than your gain, it will make you to give up on crypto trading unless you have a mentor that will impact you to change to positive strategy that will allow you to reduce your losses in crypto trading, I don't think you will overtrade when you know that decentralized asset is a volatile because it can change at anytime to increase or decrease for the favour of traders or against the favour of traders, which you must not trade all your coins at once for future purpose.

[Catenaccio]

There was a week when I placed over 40 ETH trades. Small wins, big losses, endless stress. My account balance didn’t move much, but my energy was gone.

That taught me that more trades don’t equal better results. Sometimes waiting for one clean setup is worth more than 20 rushed entries.Are you trading with purpose or just trading to feel busy?

If it is true, I am deeply sharing your painful loss but you know, I really don't believe in your story.

40 ETH in 2025 is a fortune with many people as it is equivalently around $160,000 and with this big capital, only one percent in profit can still be big profit in its value as $1,600. I only agree that with $160,000 trading capital, if you traded badly, loss is surely big and if you used leverages for trading, your trading position and collateral (40 ETH) could be easily liquidated for causing huge loss for you.

Either trading with big or small capital, use stop loss order that is one of best weapons in trading.

[SOKO-DEKE]

I don't know maybe there are some people who trade just because they want to feel busy. But I'm not sure. Maybe they are the ones trading just to feel occupied. Honestly, I've never found a person like that.What’s the point of someone approaching trading just to feel busy? Trading is not like gambling, where some people say they do it just for fun. In trading, it's better to trade with the goal of making money, so you can take it seriously. With proper knowledge, someone can become a successful trader, and success doesn’t depend on luck. Trading is based on knowledge, unlike gambling, which is mostly based on luck.So, it’s better not to overtrade especially if you know it will negatively affect your trading. I view people who overtrade as those who are eager to make it quickly and take unnecessary risks. That’s dangerous, because you may not have enough time to properly analyze and monitor your trades.

[Nahl]

There was a week when I placed over 40 ETH trades. Small wins, big losses, endless stress. My account balance didn’t move much, but my energy was gone.

That taught me that more trades don’t equal better results. Sometimes waiting for one clean setup is worth more than 20 rushed entries.Are you trading with purpose or just trading to feel busy?

If it is true, I am deeply sharing your painful loss but you know, I really don't believe in your story.

40 ETH in 2025 is a fortune with many people as it is equivalently around $160,000 and with this big capital, only one percent in profit can still be big profit in its value as $1,600. I only agree that with $160,000 trading capital, if you traded badly, loss is surely big and if you used leverages for trading, your trading position and collateral (40 ETH) could be easily liquidated for causing huge loss for you.

Either trading with big or small capital, use stop loss order that is one of best weapons in trading.

1% profit can make $1600 but 1% loss too can makes you lost those amount immediatelly too and trading with big capital has high risk and low profit because for example lost 2% or more will makes the traders will lost thousand dollar in the short term and if we look at to the movement prices of ETH lately which facing downtrend i think it make sense if OP feel he lost a lot of money and probably he decide to cut loss and regarding OP question i think trading should be serious because it is involved to money that's why i was trading to purpose not how to gets busy because my goal to trading is i want to earn profit from those activities

[Lanatsa]

There was a week when I placed over 40 ETH trades. Small wins, big losses, endless stress. My account balance didn’t move much, but my energy was gone.

That taught me that more trades don’t equal better results. Sometimes waiting for one clean setup is worth more than 20 rushed entries.Are you trading with purpose or just trading to feel busy?

If it is true, I am deeply sharing your painful loss but you know, I really don't believe in your story.

40 ETH in 2025 is a fortune with many people as it is equivalently around $160,000 and with this big capital, only one percent in profit can still be big profit in its value as $1,600. I only agree that with $160,000 trading capital, if you traded badly, loss is surely big and if you used leverages for trading, your trading position and collateral (40 ETH) could be easily liquidated for causing huge loss for you.

Either trading with big or small capital, use stop loss order that is one of best weapons in trading.

1% profit can make $1600 but 1% loss too can makes you lost those amount immediatelly too and trading with big capital has high risk and low profit because for example lost 2% or more will makes the traders will lost thousand dollar in the short term and if we look at to the movement prices of ETH lately which facing downtrend i think it make sense if OP feel he lost a lot of money and probably he decide to cut loss and regarding OP question i think trading should be serious because it is involved to money that's why i was trading to purpose not how to gets busy because my goal to trading is i want to earn profit from those activities

The point about 40 ETH being a huge sum in 2025 is valid because at today’s price that represents serious capital and even a small percentage swing means thousands gained or lost this is exactly why discipline and purpose matter so much in trading when you’re dealing with large sums every entry and exit carries weight. The mistake many traders make is equating activity with productivity placing dozens of trades may feel like you’re working hard but without clear setups and strategy it drains energy and often chips away at the account balance through losses and fees waiting for one clean high probability setup often brings better results both financially and mentally than chasing every tiny move.

Stop losses as you mentioned are critical whether you trade small or large capital they serve as guardrails preventing one bad decision from wiping out weeks or months of effort with big capital the need for protective tools becomes even more important because the stakes are higher a 1% move in the wrong direction is no small number when the portfolio is six figures. Personally i believe trading should always be with purpose not as a way to stay busy markets don’t reward overtrading they reward patience timing and control trading just to fill the silence of waiting usually leads to poor entries emotional stress and unnecessary risk.

[Oshosondy]

Actually, a typical or active scalper can do 20-50 trades per day, and 50 to 100 trades for a full-time scalper.
There's a lot of stress and frustration, and you are forced to trade with lower time frames that need instant decisions.
I've been there before, and honestly, my balance has never been in profit. I have some win trades, but most of them lose. My capital can lose half quickly.
I'm not good at scalping, so I switch to intraday and swing trading.

Scalping are used by beginners but when they lose, they changed their approach for trading. It is good to scalp but some people think they can earn like $5 on 20 trades, making $100 daily as an example. But scalping is not like that at all and they will lose. I still scalp but not in a way that I will make more than 20 trades daily but in a way that I can have just 1 to 3 trades daily but I really make sure that I have a good entry.

Also scalpers are prone to use a very high leverage which make them lose often.

[goldkingcoiner]

There was a week when I placed over 40 ETH trades. Small wins, big losses, endless stress. My account balance didn’t move much, but my energy was gone.

That taught me that more trades don’t equal better results. Sometimes waiting for one clean setup is worth more than 20 rushed entries.Are you trading with purpose or just trading to feel busy?

 
It sounds like to me that your strategy does not work because you did not test it beforehand. Or you have a null-sum strategy which is not bringing you any losses but also no profits.

Instead of rushing in, you should first test your strategy on the historical chart. Or use a testnet exchange where you can test your trading without having to lose any money.

Personally, I think unless you do automated trading you should not trade as frequently as you do. Unless you sit at your computer looking at the chart all day, you will miss important movements or forget to put in trades.

[bettercrypto]

There was a week when I placed over 40 ETH trades. Small wins, big losses, endless stress. My account balance didn’t move much, but my energy was gone.

That taught me that more trades don’t equal better results. Sometimes waiting for one clean setup is worth more than 20 rushed entries.Are you trading with purpose or just trading to feel busy?

It is often said that some of the most valuable lessons are learned through our mistakes and ineffective strategies. Each misstep presents an opportunity for growth,
as it allows us to recognize what went wrong and how to avoid repeating it in the future.

The key takeaway is not to let those mistakes occur again but rather to use them as a guide for improvement. In trading, this means refining our approach by adopting practices that work
and discarding those that do not. Ultimately, progress comes from continuous learning and adjustment.