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I made 1k for absolutely doing nothing
I was a normal guy like everyone else.
One day at school, a friend told me he'd invested in stocks and was making 20% returns. I thought that sounded insane. So I downloaded a broker app, experimented a bit, watched some YouTube videos. I had no idea what I was doing but it felt exciting.
Then he said, "Look at this thing called Bitcoin."
I'd heard of it before. Probably made jokes about it. Never took it seriously. But I looked into it and something clicked. I was fascinated.
BTC was sitting around 35k. I opened a $500 position - a lot of money for my age. I didn't understand charts, indicators, or risk management. I just... bought.
Then I watched it run to 70k.
I made over a thousand dollars for doing absolutely nothing.
That was the worst thing that could've happened to me.
Because I thought that's how it works. Easy money. Just keep going bigger. So I did. More trades. More leverage. No stop losses. I didn't even know what a stop loss was. I just... traded.
Then August 2024 happened.
The yen carry trade crash. If you were in the market that day, you know. Everything fell off a cliff. I sat there watching my screen for 24 hours straight. Couldn't look away. Couldn't think. Just watched my account bleed.
4k gone.
Did I step back and reflect? No. I went full rage mode. People in group chats said "buy the dip" so I bought. Not because I analyzed anything. Because I was angry and wanted my money back.
That was the bottom, by the way. But I didn't buy enough to recover. Because I wasn't making decisions - my emotions were.
And here's the part nobody talks about.
After a loss like that, I didn't suddenly become a better trader. I didn't have some movie-moment revelation. I just... kept going. Same mistakes. Same patterns. For months.
I didn't change anything because I didn't even know what to change.
Eventually I started tracking trades in an Excel sheet. Just entries, exits, P&L. It helped a little. But it didn't show me the thing that was actually costing me money - my head.
About six months ago, I started actually journaling. Not just numbers. How I felt when I entered. What I was thinking when I held too long. What my emotional state was when I revenge traded at 3am.
That changed everything.
I'm a developer. I like building things. I like aesthetics, I like automation, and I like AI. So I thought - why not build the journal I actually want to use? Not a spreadsheet. Not some clunky app. Something that tracks psychology, catches patterns, and looks good enough that you actually open it every day.
So I built it. I use it myself. Every single day. And it works - because I catch my patterns now before they cost me money.
It's called Traverse.
If you've been trading for months or years and you keep making the same mistakes - it's probably not your strategy. It's your psychology. And you can't fix what you don't track.
I'm building Traverse - an AI trading journal that tracks your psychology, not just your P&L.
Join the waitlist → traversejournal.com
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