when i got into this space in 2024 i loaded $300 into SOL & ran it up to around $70k in a few months i promptly gave it all back. revenge traded $70,000 back to a few hundred dollars. i felt fucking awful from there, i locked in & turned my few hundred bucks into $300k guess what happened next? i traded that back down to $5,000 i did some version of that dance several more times. im stubborn & apparently dont learn my lessons the first time the feeling of working so hard to build a portfolio then burning it all down is miserable. it can happen so fast too you dont even realize what the hell youre doing until you look up & all of your hard work is gone you feel worthless. how did i let this happen? what the fuck did i even do? the money never feels real until you lose it. but it stings when it’s gone anyways, after zeroing out several times i knew something had to change for me, getting capital out of my trading wallets helped a lot. cold storage, offramping into long term stock portfolios, anything that kept me from having easy access to large sums while tilted when i made money, i had rules for moving some of it somewhere safe & out of reach i believed if id ran up decent sums before, i could do it again, and i was right i built my port to around a $2m ATH in 2025 im down a good chunk from ATH, as i imagine most of us who have heavy exposure to crypto are, & have been slowly clawing back through the bear i still have a tendency to tilt & revenge trade. i havent fixed it completely, ive just gotten much better at recognizing when its happening & stopping before it gets way worse obviously i wish i kept all the money i made when i was getting started, but i learned lessons i dont think i couldve learned any other way i wouldnt be in the position i am today without those wild swings & losing it all multiple times figure out what works for you. set rules you can actually follow. learn how to control your emotions & never stop improving. being a good trader means constantly learning, adapting & getting better many ppl cant run it up in the first place if you’ve done it before, you can do it again, and you can learn how to keep it