James Wynn’s big wins (and losses): The truth about trading with leverage

[OcTradism]

James Wynn shared his expectations for the upcoming week on his X account today: "A big week ahead for crypto. $88-92k would bring in some pain"
We can assume that he will open a big short again)

I don't pay too much attention on James Wynn, honestly as I am not actively trading. I focus on my bitcoin accumulation and investment only, so James Wynn is not my concern at all.

His story reminds me about an anonymous account on Reddit that was famous in the last market cycle. He predicted Bitcoin price very accurately in some months and many people gradually believed in his predictions. Eventually in later months, his predictions were inaccurately and many people lost money with their belief.

So don't believe in James Wynn or always take your action on the market oppositely than what James does, it can be a big trap from market makers.

I hope that someone can share a screenshot of that anonymous person years ago.

[SOKO-DEKE]

If it is not greediness, I don't think why some traders would trade with high leverage, because they also know how risky it is to use high leverage. If it is not luck, it is really hard for a trader using high leverage to stay long in trading, because they easily lose their funds while chasing high profits. And some think that the reason people use high leverage is that they are chasing their losses uthey just want to recover the money they have lost once. Seriously, if someone is using high leverage, there is no difference between them and a gambler.

[mirakal]

If it is not greediness, I don't think why some traders would trade with high leverage, because they also know how risky it is to use high leverage. If it is not luck, it is really hard for a trader using high leverage to stay long in trading, because they easily lose their funds while chasing high profits. And some think that the reason people use high leverage is that they are chasing their losses uthey just want to recover the money they have lost once. Seriously, if someone is using high leverage, there is no difference between them and a gambler.

Yes, you have a point, but let’s not forget that there are also those highly exceptional traders that are actually earning massive profits from using leverage. So earning with leverage is certainly true, but not all traders are capable to trade using leverage, that’s why if you decide to take leverage, make sure you are not trading for gambling, but definitely you are trading for maximum profits and luck, since it’s also part of trading.

[Yamifoud]

The point here if you don’t trust your trading abilities and skills, don’t bother entering trading with leverage, that will only put all your trading funds at risk of losing. Trading with leverage is undeniably highly risky, so weak and less experienced traders should not dare trying to prove theirselves that they can also be good in it, financial safety first before taking such high and inevitable risk. And for those who are brave enough to try trading using leverage, do it with high caution. Somehow, those losses can also be your trading lessons.

[tvplus006]

If it is not greediness, I don't think why some traders would trade with high leverage, because they also know how risky it is to use high leverage...

Using leverage allows to keep a smaller amount of money in an exchange account, thus reducing the risk of losing it. In addition, the use of leverage allows you to hedge risky positions. So it's not about greed if you understand what leverage is actually for.

[traderethereum]

Some traders make money from trading but we don't know how much money they make. Using leverage is only for experienced traders and not for beginners because the risk will be high for them. But if beginners want to trade using leverage, they can use small leverage so that they will not take a big risk. But I agree that trading is about patience and not about making money. If you can analyze better, you can join in leverage trading but with control so you can avoid the big loss.

[hd49728]

Some traders make money from trading but we don't know how much money they make. Using leverage is only for experienced traders and not for beginners because the risk will be high for them. But if beginners want to trade using leverage, they can use small leverage so that they will not take a big risk. But I agree that trading is about patience and not about making money. If you can analyze better, you can join in leverage trading but with control so you can avoid the big loss.

You can see their slays about trading profits but they don't show you all including their losses with trading. A half of a story is not a true story at all, and a short term profit in trading does not mean that trader will have good positive net trading profit in the long term.

Trading is dangerous as it can be easily to get profit in short term while in long term, you can lose all your money if you manage your finance, your trading capital and risk terribly. In only one or some bad trades, if you don't use stop loss order and open leveraged positions, your money can be lost very quickly to market markers, winners in the market including exchanges.

To avoid loss, and more importantly to prevent big loss, there is a stop loss order to use as your weapon against market volatility.
One of the best weapons in trading.

[tvplus006]

Finally, after 2 months of unprofitable trading, James Wynn managed to correctly guess the price movement of Bitcoin. But instead of closing his short position with an unrealized profit of $145,000, he continued to hold it, which eventually led to another liquidation -  https://hyperdash.info/trader/0x5078C2fBeA2b2aD61bc840Bc023E35Fce56BeDb6

[tvplus006]

James Wynn's starts the new year 2006 with a long BTC and PEPE, which currently brings him $900,000 in profit. However, it should be noted that these orders have not yet been closed by him and this amount of profit may turn out to be even more, but if the market turns around, the profit may turn out to be smaller.

[tygeade]

James Wynn's starts the new year 2006 with a long BTC and PEPE, which currently brings him $900,000 in profit. However, it should be noted that these orders have not yet been closed by him and this amount of profit may turn out to be even more, but if the market turns around, the profit may turn out to be smaller.

Definitely a good move on bitcoin, no idea about what this pepe memecoin shit thing is because I would never consider spending a dime on it, no matter who made how much on it. But bitcoin was a smart move, with Maduro and Venezuela situation there was a green period and I am sure it will be red again soon so he should sell and get out with profit.

We need to see it what it is, a temporary rise in price because of the world politics but that is a temporary thing like I said and won't be a big deal and won't be long term. He should get out in profit while he can. I also never understood people who have this much money and still risk it, if I had that much money, just even his profits, I would retire and risk nothing ever again.

[tvplus006]

Definitely a good move on bitcoin, no idea about what this pepe memecoin shit thing is because I would never consider spending a dime on it, no matter who made how much on it. But bitcoin was a smart move, with Maduro and Venezuela situation there was a green period and I am sure it will be red again soon so he should sell and get out with profit...

In fact, the $PEPE token is a success for trader James Wynn's, who bought it in 2023 and made a profit of approximately $30 million by selling it in 2025. And as I understand it, he will hold this token until its price increases 100 times - https://x.com/JamesWynnReal/status/2006710881745514554 Otherwise, he promised to delete his account.

[Catenaccio]

In fact, the $PEPE token is a success for trader James Wynn's, who bought it in 2023 and made a profit of approximately $30 million by selling it in 2025. And as I understand it, he will hold this token until its price increases 100 times - https://x.com/JamesWynnReal/status/2006710881745514554 Otherwise, he promised to delete his account.

He made good decision of buying $PEPE years ago and hold the token till now but what he has gotten is unrealized profit before he sells his $PEPE for either fiat currency, stablecoin or bitcoin.

If he continues his gambling trading in this market, I don't know how we will maintain his $PEPE portfolio untouched because his money will be lost with his trading and bets in the future. With James Wynn, I don't think he can control himself well and likely he will lose all of his money soon including how many $PEPE tokens he has.

Trading is risky and with a degen trader like James Wynn, it's similar to gambling, no longer trading and gambling means more risk.

[tvplus006]

In fact, the $PEPE token is a success for trader James Wynn's, who bought it in 2023 and made a profit of approximately $30 million by selling it in 2025...

He made good decision of buying $PEPE years ago and hold the token till now but what he has gotten is unrealized profit before he sells his $PEPE for either fiat currency, stablecoin or bitcoin...

What kind of unrealized profit are you talking about if PEPE tokens, which James Wynn's bought in 2023 for $8,000, were sold to them in 2025 for $30 million? And on January 1, 2026, he opened a new long with the PEPE token, the one listed above in the screenshot.

[Faisal2202]

Trading is about patience and not high leverage.


Anyone here using high leverage and making money from trading? That is a lie.

I think I have heard this name before and I know he took high leverage trades and was a pepe investor, well recently he went against the bitcoin move when it was trading around $100k after which it dropped below $90k and now it is trading at the cmp.

Well, you are right about leverage, high leverage is not good, we can lose everything to the crypto in just few seconds because we make money after a lot of struggle like 10 to 12 hour shifts and then we open a trade with 5x leverage which is not even that high but we see our 1 hour earnings to be removed from our capital just like that in seconds and at that point most newbies start to panic and they think that's not good but then they try to be on the good side like try to think positive and come up with the idea that if they can lose 1 hour to 5 hour of their salary just like that they can even make it too.

And then they lose more haha.

[tvplus006]

James Wynn's starts the new year 2006 with a long BTC and PEPE, which currently brings him $900,000 in profit. However, it should be noted that these orders have not yet been closed by him and this amount of profit may turn out to be even more, but if the market turns around, the profit may turn out to be smaller.

Yes, everything turned out as I expected. And today, James Wynn's unfixed longs profit is about 200 thousand dollars. Thus, he lost about 700 thousand dollars in one day, which confirms the fact that it is necessary to fix the profit, otherwise you can get a loss.

[Jatiluhung]

I think this will really be useful for any newbie that is active in this trading discussion board. We are all familiar with James Wynn as he thought us that leverage trading is not good.

Trading is about patience and not high leverage.

Anyone here using high leverage and making money from trading? That is a lie.

Trading futures/perpetual futures does indeed carry a very high risk compared to the spot market. And that's because we are sometimes tempted to use high leverage. But to be honest, I personally rarely trade futures, even though I often try it and sometimes make a profit and sometimes don't. However, when I was still being mentored by my own mentor, I had a higher profit ratio than loss ratio when trading futures. Perhaps because at that time I was using analysis created by my mentor, who was more experienced than I was.

However, I personally prefer the spot market. And of course, if we have sufficient capital, I am sure we will all stay in the spot market. Meanwhile, in the futures market, I was taught to trade in a bearish market, which is to take a short position when the market is indeed in a bearish trend. As a day trader, my mentor may have only taken advantage of the bearish trend by trading in the futures market. But personally, as a swing trader, I don't really like it.

However, if someone asks whether there are those who have successfully achieved consistent profits from the futures market, the answer is yes. But they usually don't use leverage exceeding 10x and, of course, with strict margin usage, employing the isolated method, and avoiding cross positions. My mentor used to demonstrate this quite often during live sessions.