The reason why investors often lose money; as a novice, I summarized the experience in trading:
1. Investment does not equal speculation
2. Not aware of new market changes
3. Do some price comparisons of several currencies that are promising in the past and this year (you can also search the project keywords in the forum to see everyone's thoughts on this project as a reference)
4. Speculators also lose money. Investors are thorough gamblers. When I didn't buy in, I kept holding. If the currency price drops sharply, we will be finished. Maybe speculators buy at the same time (the speculators who have done the market record will be aware of the red flag warning, bad things will happen, the speculators will take action to minimize the loss, and then wait for the next favorable Opportunity to act again
Honestly what I see above is all what afters we retail traders(investor's) not the whales aka institutional investors.
Institutional investors are not moved by speculations or market anticipation, these whales they write the rules because it's easy to manipulate these markets if you have the most coins ,which is based on volume.
I have noticed that nowadays, people often take up investments without having enough knowledge to do so.
And in crypto being a retail investor without the knowledge about how these works can make you trade emotional against the markets.