A month has passed, and today I decided to share this experience as a warning to everyone: learn from my mistakes and never gamble!
On June 2, a few days after the end of the Backpack S1 season, I found myself with $135,000 in cash and suddenly felt aimless. Since the backpack couldn't hedge, I turned to Lighter for short-term trading, hoping to increase my funds before S2 began. Thus, I started contract gambling, gradually increasing my position from a small amount to $1 million—where a 1% rise or fall meant a gain or loss of $10,000, which was extremely thrilling.
🔸 On the first day of trading, I lost $25,000 that night, leaving me with only $110,000. I resolved to be steady the next day and avoid blind high-frequency trading; if I could make $5,000 a day, I would break even in a week!
🔹 The next day, I indeed made over $4,000, and I was secretly delighted: as long as I persisted for a week, I could exit with my capital intact and quit gambling.
🔸 Early on the third day, I couldn't wait to trade, wanting to quickly recover my losses. I opened a position before 8 AM, and ETH was immediately trapped. I painfully stared at the screen, watching the stop-loss point approach, enduring the agony all day. That night, the stop-loss was triggered, and I lost another $25,000. At that moment, I felt a sense of relief—it was like a death row inmate finally facing execution, no longer holding onto futile hopes.
🔹 On the fourth day, my capital was down to $95,000. I was exhausted, but the thought of breaking even drove me to open another position. I missed a short opportunity at noon, and around 2 PM, I judged there would be a rebound, so I went long on ETH, only to get trapped again; at 5 PM, the stop-loss was triggered, and I lost another $10,000, leaving me with $85,000. In despair, I went all in: at 6 PM, I shorted ETH on my phone without setting a stop-loss! After shorting at the lowest point, I kept a close watch on the rebound on my way home, sweating profusely, fantasizing that if it dropped 7%, I could break even, and decided to hold the position to the end. At 8:30 PM, I pretended to watch TV but checked my phone for price fluctuations every minute. Around 9 PM, ETH rebounded nearly $30, and my losses worsened; I completely broke down, my brain numb.
I rushed back to my bedroom, trying to close the position, but Lighter indicated access was restricted. I frantically switched VPN nodes, desperately trying to close this position without a stop-loss. At the moment I closed it, I felt an immense relief—losing over 500,000 RMB in just a few days. I lay in bed, speechless, and fell into a deep sleep before 10 PM.
🔸 On the fifth day at 7 AM, I habitually checked the price: ETH plummeted 7.6% (later learned it was due to the fallout between Musk and Trump). If I hadn't closed my short position, I could have broken even as I had imagined. But life has no "if," only facing reality.
This was my experience during the first week of June. For the next 7-8 days, I only ate two bites of vegetables at each meal, feeling anorexic and depressed, mentally collapsing. Looking back, it feels like fate played a trick on me. Now, I feel physically nauseous at the sight of candlestick charts. Life doesn't have a do-over; if you ask me what I gained, perhaps it was the 310 points awarded by Lighter that week, which is my biggest points gain. But I am grateful for this experience: now I feel sick without a hedged position, and I have completely distanced myself from gambling contracts.
✅ People live because of hope.
Thanks to my psychological mentor @Metabape and wise brother @dominolu for their help in helping me step out of the shadows. Life is long; I still have capital and @Backpack_CN points, which I can earn back through various means. As long as I am alive, there is hope. Lessons make people grow—striving to achieve financial freedom in the second cycle, walking alongside my brothers! Never gamble, and never look back!
Keep it up!
from @小熊饼干.eth
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