#数字资产市场动态 It's 2 a.m., and my phone keeps vibrating.
A buddy who trades in Shenzhen is all panicked in the voice chat:
"Bro, I put all my 10,000 yuan into the position, using 10x leverage to go long on $PIPPIN, and it only drops 3%, and my money is gone? What's going on?"
I looked over his trading record:
Full position with 9,500 yuan, 10x leverage, no stop-loss set at all.
This is a common trap — many people think that full position means they can withstand volatility, but the opposite is true.
Using full position poorly actually leads to the fastest death.
What truly determines whether you'll get liquidated isn't how high your leverage is, but how much real money you throw in at once.
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BearMarketMonk
· 2h ago
Damn, another full-position liquidation... Playing like this really leads to quick death.
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PumpAnalyst
· 2h ago
I always say that full position trading may seem ruthless but is actually a way to invite disaster. That older brother is a living negative example.
Going all-in with 10x leverage and no stop-loss? That's just waiting to be liquidated. A 3% pullback can't even be tolerated, really.
The key is to leave room for maneuver. I stick to three rules: 20% single position, 3% stop-loss line. Otherwise, I would have been wiped out a hundred times already.
Looking at this wave, there really aren't many good opportunities; it's all signals of new investors entering the market.
Longevity is the key. Don't think about getting rich overnight—that's just the house's way of taking your money.
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BoredWatcher
· 3h ago
95% of bullets fired in one shot, and the market trembles and disappears with a single move. This is the self-discipline of crypto quick-frozen workers.
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ImpermanentPhobia
· 3h ago
95% of the bullets are shot out at once, and you deserve to burst... This guy is still asking what's going on
#数字资产市场动态 It's 2 a.m., and my phone keeps vibrating.
A buddy who trades in Shenzhen is all panicked in the voice chat:
"Bro, I put all my 10,000 yuan into the position, using 10x leverage to go long on $PIPPIN, and it only drops 3%, and my money is gone? What's going on?"
I looked over his trading record:
Full position with 9,500 yuan, 10x leverage, no stop-loss set at all.
This is a common trap — many people think that full position means they can withstand volatility, but the opposite is true.
Using full position poorly actually leads to the fastest death.
What truly determines whether you'll get liquidated isn't how high your leverage is, but how much real money you throw in at once.
Take the $BEAT example for clarity:
Same 10x leverage —
Opening with 900 yuan, a 5% adverse move wipes it out completely;
Opening with only 100 yuan, it takes a 50% adverse move to get liquidated.
The buddy's problem wasn't misreading the direction. The real issue was firing 95% of his bullets at once.
As long as the market has a normal correction, he has no room to adjust.
I also often use full positions, but I follow three strict rules that I never relax:
First: For a single position, only use up to 20% of total funds.
Second: Total loss at once cannot exceed 3% of total funds.
Third: During market volatility, prefer to stay out of the market; even if you make money, don't greedily add to your position.
The true meaning of full position is to leave buffer space for market fluctuations, not to gamble everything on one shot.
This is even more true in markets like $LIGHT.
In the crypto world, it's never about who makes money the fastest.
It's about who can survive the longest.
If you've ever struggled between "full position" and "holding on stubbornly," the problem isn't your market judgment.
The problem is that you've left yourself too little room to adjust.