Your 2025 trading mistakes

[sokani]

What are the trading mistakes you make this year that you do not want to make next year?

I'm not a professional trader. I'm taking baby steps, and I have a long way to go. One mistake I made in 2025 is not slipping my bag. I could have sold my stash when Bitcoin hit an ATH and bought again when it took a dip. If I had done that the few times the market went bullish, maybe I would have doubled my bag and made more money.

[Jatiluhung]

Besides "Mismanaging weekly or monthly income on trading and "Overconfidence" listed in your poll, on many occasions I didn't take profits off the table. I saw unrealized profits that later went into losses. It happened to me in several instances and it never felt cool. It hurts. Not taking profits when due has cost me a lot of chances to better position for business. Ilt left me with little funds as I couldn't build from taking profit. This is a mistake I won't want to repeat in 2026.

The same thing happened to me. I even saw a huge profit right in front of my eyes, but I missed it and only took the profit when it was almost too late. A profit of more than 100% turned into a profit of only a few percent. It took weeks or even months to recover from that. It was quite painful, but I personally learned something from it. So for now, I prefer to sell immediately when the profit is truly within reach. Without caring whether the price will continue to rise or not. Because I also don't want to repeat the same mistake. My mistake was not anticipating that bad news could come at any time and change the market trend quickly, even within minutes.

[el kaka22]

I would say overconfidence. I did not make that much loss on anything thankfully, but I could have made a lot more but decided to hold a bit longer than I should and that resulted with nothing good. I get that when you are profiting you keep looking for higher and want more and when things start to go down it's hard to accept that you should sell and get out.

I did the same, I hoped it would recover and made much less profit, in fact one of them was barely break even, only if I could have sold at the peak I would have made way more than what I made this year.

[Stalker22]

idk if anyone actually sells at the exact peak though so dont beat yourself up too much about it, that is just chasing ghosts, the real skill is learning to take profits on the way up even when you think it has more room to run, a bird in the hand is always better than a moon mission that crashes back to earth before you can exit

Well, someone always seems to sell right when things are at their highest.  Its usually either someone way smarter than you or an insider cheating the system while you are being overly optimistic.  Trying to time the market perfectly is a trap.  You will just end up losing everything while the big guys get richer.  Its not bad to take profits as you go; its just smart if you want to survive in a market thats trying to screw you over.

[landheer]

What are the trading mistakes you make this year that you do not want to make next year?

Using high leverage is one mistake I don't want to repeat next year, and in fact, I already started doing so some time ago. Although it brought me some profits, high leverage can cause my position to lose money quickly.
Additionally, I no longer wish to engage in excessive trading. This activity has truly consumed my time at times and made me unproductive. Although I occasionally made profits, they were not as substantial as what I could have achieved if I had worked harder and been more productive.
I hope I can trade with more control and no longer rely too heavily on emotions in my trading.

[programmer3666]

I have always said it, trade with the amount of money that you can afford to lose. Going against this, thinking you can make money from trading has been the reason for this many mistakes.

Let us discuss about our 2025 trading mistakes which I believe coming newbies can learn from.

Most people are motivated by making quick money in trading, and this is a common mistake when engaging in trading. If someone doesn't engage in trading the right way, it will be difficult for them to engage consistently because no one can survive trading if they constantly experience losses. The amount of money used in trading should be based on their willingness to lose, especially for those who are learning, because nothing in trading can guarantee consistent profits. Take several steps, and most importantly, avoid overtrading and be able to manage their money well so they can continue learning and improving their skills.

In trading, that high tendency to chase quick profit with having the proper knowledge or the ability to emotionally control the risk that comes with trading is the biggest mistake a lot of traders make, when you decide to go into trading, then it should be done with the money you can afford to lose without regretting it afterwards becuase if that's not the case then the pressure will surely to to constant bad decisions. For instance i am personally in a very annoying delimma, i bought Bome coin at $0.0017 and currently it is down to $0.00058 but since it is spot trading, i am a bit safe, but now I am just left holding the bag and hoping that the price bounces back by January 2026. This kind of situations prove why poor money management or overtrading can destroy accounts.

[Byebyebtc]

Well the only mistake I made is trading without qualified knowledge, and that is one thing alot if traders pas through even without knowing.
I blamed other things, from the market To my broker lol
But at the end of it all I realised that all I need is more knowledge and things got more easier
So sometimes just accepted the fact that you need more knowledge and calm down and learn

[Franctoshi]

Had a very good run during the beginning of the year, the first quarter and second quarter, but my trading journey this year was messed up the period Bitcoin crashed because I was actually on a long position before the crash, had no stop lose in place while the trade was running, biggest mistake of all time since my trading, taught me the lesson of my life, another thing is sometimes over trading, not leaving the market when necessary.

[Charles-Tim]

Had a very good run during the beginning of the year, the first quarter and second quarter, but my trading journey this year was messed up the period Bitcoin crashed because I was actually on a long position before the crash, had no stop lose in place while the trade was running, biggest mistake of all time since my trading, taught me the lesson of my life, another thing is sometimes over trading, not leaving the market when necessary.

Having no stop loss is kind of not an excuse the way I am thinking about it but it can be overleveragy. If bitcoin fall, it will rise again but it may not rise to the price it was falling from, not that it fall and not rise. I remember when it fell from $123000 or so to almost $101000, but it later increased and got to all-time high. Also bitcoin is not very volatile within short period of time after the all-time high, it was a slow but steady decline.

Overtrading can also mean trading addiction, a condition that is not good at all and can lead to high loss of money similar to gambling.

[Outhue]

My mistakes, were not buying some altcoins in early 2025 because I was completely focused on Bitcoin.
My second mistake was selling Bitcoin too early and not being able to get better profits.
My third mistake was being too confident that Bitcoin would still exceed $100,000 in December.
However, I don't regret them because I know mistakes are always possible in trading, and the important thing is to prepare for 2026.
I think that will be the year to start accumulating Bitcoin at a low price, maybe this will also be a mistake but I am ready for the risk.

Not buying altcoins in early 2025 is a trapped you avoided, you should be thankful because almost all altcoins failed to go a new all time high, majority of them lost 90% of their value, many people believed that history will repeat but instead retails avoid altcoins completely and went for gold and silver.

Right now silver and precious metal are doing what altcoins are supposed to do, out of hundreds of crypto influencers only one or two have predicted that there will never be a altcoin season this time around, all attention are shifted to Bitcoin and precious metal only, it's a narrow escape for those who wanted to buy but failed to buy altcoins.

[laspol65]

I like trading Bitcoin, but it is true that you should trade with as much money as you can afford to lose. But how many people follow this rule, the one who has the support enters the market with more money than he has because he thinks that in order to earn more money, he has to accept trading with more money. However, I normally enter the market with $ 100, but I am in loss this year. Because of this, there are some mistakes in my technical research and I did not get the news before because the price of Bitcoin has been dumped several times due to this trade war that had to be fought between China and Trump this year. If I had kept up with the technical information, I would have been able to correct myself from this mistake, I am facing huge losses.