This is for beginners traders because I now old traders like know these already.
You set indicators, the market fall to where you supposed to buy, like in an oversold market, you buy the coin, thinking the price will start rising. The market show as if the price will start rising but the later continue to fall and fall the more. In the process, your money got liquidated. Your tried it for overbought market but the same thing happened and your money got liquidated.
All of us that are old traders know this, so you really need to make use of strategies that can help you not to lose much and that can lead to possible recovery not avoid martingale.
Trade with the money that you can afford to lose to help you fight emotions
Do not use leverage or use very low leverage like 1.5x
Avoid most altcoins
Averaging is good but martingale is your enemy
Risk management is important
Money management is also very important
Do not trade in a way that you will always watch the screen in panic
Fundamental analyses can help in knowing when to buy at times but still be careful because it is also not enough just like technical analyses.
Old traders, if you need to give advise, what are they?
Well said! To add a thing, there is something called liquidity. When for instance a whale wants to buy a coin, they always buy it cheaper. First they push the price down below where many traders - newbies and amateur, supposedly placed their stop loss . Now they have gotten all the liquidity they needed and right before your very eyes, the market move as you have originally targeted but unfortunately your trade was taken off by your stop loss.
It's no crime, that is how the entire financial market works and you may not see it in text book, but have to experience it live. Bottom-line is, get a mentor, he has been many times to the place you are planning on going. Watch how he trades live, that is hand-on experience with the market conditions because you are going to need them tomorrow plus whatsoever you were able to gather on your own. That is a sure way to save time and money and then make more.