During the recent spike in the value of TWT, a friend of mine made double her capital trading. Although she had already made double her money, she set her exit point on the trade at a very high point hoping to triple her capital. Before the crash of the market and her profits along with it, she was excited and told me how happy she felt to have made something tangible trading on her own. I adviced her not to be greedy, that she should quickly sell since she has made double and not wait to make triple a her capital, but she refused and insisted on waiting. (I gave the advice knowing that TWT is not a stable coin).
Some few moments after our conversation, i saw her with a long face saying that the market had crashed and if she had known, she would have followed my advice.
(This is not the first time she has made such a mistake)
Could this be termed "Near success syndrome in trading?".
Are you or Do you know someone with a similar episode?
This is one of the most common mistakes in trading. People tend to be greedy if they are seeing the money the invested in being doubled. They feel like it can go higher just like your friend who thought that she can make her money tripled. Being greedy is a rookie and newbie mistake. We can never tell where the drop will come and so we need to set a strategy and respect our exit plan in order to secure profits. Profit is profit. You can always look for other opportunities if you already secured to the profit. This is the beauty of trading. We have endless opportunities so never focus on one trade and be greedy about it. Some may be successful in to that greedy trade but most will not. A good trading strategy is the one that will give you more profit in the long run.
Exactly there are so many ways in which the friend of the OP could have protected her profits and yet she did not do it, for example one of the most simple strategies when your money has doubled is to sell half of your coins, if you do this and then the market crashes at least you did not lose any money and you are back at square one.
But if the market keeps growing then you can keep getting profits, but a person like that will never implement this kind of strategy as they are being blinded by greed and they think that if they sell half of their coins then their profits will get smaller too, not realizing that if they are mistaken their capital will go down to the point it will be almost impossible tor recover what they lost.