The biggest lie sold to newcomers is that you can just "learn to trade" and print money. What they don’t hear is that even the best traders lose often. Especially in leveraged environments like crypto, one wrong move can wipe weeks of gains — or your entire stack. It’s literally impossible to avoid losses when you use leverage, because it turns market volatility into a landmine field. You don’t get to make mistakes. And guess what? Everyone makes mistakes.
Absolutely, the number of people that have lost money trying to trade or worse trying to use leverage is just crazy. You can't become a winning trader by trading as a hobby in your spare time. If you do win a lot, you just got lucky and need to be aware of this.
Real professionals - the ones playing options, futures, high-volume stocks - they often don’t even touch leverage. They rely on precision, timing, and deep understanding of macro conditions. Most of their edge comes from knowing when not to trade. That discipline is what keeps them in the game long after the hype cycles die out.
It is important to remember that you can't become a professional trader in your spare time. All these people do is trade, and there is a big gap between them and those that call themselves crypto traders.