How I Learned Risk Management the Hard Way in Crypto Trading

Imagine this: “you’re making money in crypto, feeling unstoppable, and every trade looks like genius level timing, until one day the market flips, and everything crashes.”

That’s exactly how I learned what “risk management” really means, the painfully expensive way.

The Overconfidence Rush

You know that rush when every trade just works?
That was me. Green charts all the time, my portfolio was climbing fast, and my ego was climbing even faster.
I thought I had just mastered trading, until the market reminded me who’s really in charge.

In a single brutal month, I lost half my portfolio. Half. Gone.

Not because crypto was unfair, but because I was reckless.

The Dumb Mistakes I Made

At first, everything was easy. Bitcoin up, altcoins up, and I thought stop losses were for people who didn’t believe in themselves.

I’d risk 20% on a trade because “I knew it would work.”

Spoiler: it didn’t.

And then the spiral began, one losing trade turned into three, then five. I started “averaging down” (aka throwing good money after bad), convinced…