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I wanted to make life changing money from crypto. Life changed because I’m broke.

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Aug 28, 2026 · 18:54

A few years ago, I got into crypto thinking I could eventually make enough to change my life.

Technically, I succeeded.

Just not in the direction I had planned.

The frustrating part is that I don't think I was losing because I couldn't read a chart or find decent ideas.

A lot of the damage came from the same things over and over:

* taking trades I hadn't planned
* moving stops when I didn't want to be wrong
* cutting winners because I was scared of giving profits back
* changing my approach after a few losses
* convincing myself the *next* trade would make it back

Looking back, I can see individual bad trades.

What I struggled to see was the pattern across all of them.

So recently I've been experimenting with putting my trade history and thoughts into an AI chat and asking it to call out the patterns I keep missing.

Mostly curious whether anyone else has used their own trading history to figure out *how* they're actually losing money.

For those of you who went through the “I know what I should do, but somehow keep doing something else” phase**,** what finally helped you break the pattern?

**My trade analysis by AI**

https://preview.redd.it/cd3knibqw5mh1.png?width=777&format=png&auto=webp&s=46d2e115e05ba2bdeadaba1ee64d4196342331b3

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