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#BinanceBlockchainWeek I've seen this scenario too many times: engineers from top universities staring blankly at liquidated accounts, chief physicians from top hospitals asking in group chats, "Why is my coin still dropping?", geniuses with math competition gold medals doubting their life choices while looking at candlestick charts. How do the top 1% of society's elite end up stumbling when it comes to trading?



💢 Outsmarted by their own intelligence

These people have lived their whole lives in a world of certainty. When coding, there's always an answer to if-else; in surgery, the standard procedures are written in textbooks. But the market? That's a game of probabilities. Your perfectly planned long position can be shattered by a single tweet, while some random altcoin you aped into might 10x. This kind of "irrationality" drives high-IQ people crazy—they instinctively want to prove the market wrong and themselves right.

What's worse, smart people rarely experience failure. They're used to being right from a young age, so they refuse to admit when they've called it wrong. Stop-loss? Out of the question. They'll stubbornly hold on to losing positions, convinced that "the market will eventually return to rationality." There's also this obsession: the more complex, the better. They pile dozens of indicators onto charts, study all kinds of advanced algorithms, yet ignore the simplest truth—the trend is right there, prices speak for themselves.

💎 Emotional intelligence is the hidden boss

You really don't need a Mensa membership to trade. Average IQ is enough; what matters is whether you can control yourself:

Hit the brakes when you notice greed creeping in, stay calm when panic hits. Realize that in front of the market, you're just a speck of dust—admit when you're wrong, don't fight it. Endure the boredom of waiting—staring at the screen for five hours might just be for that one entry opportunity. There's no intellectual thrill, just pure patience.

🎯 To put it bluntly, trading isn't about who's smarter, but who understands themselves better. An ordinary person who knows how to cut losses in time will always last longer and earn more than a genius who refuses to give up.

Are you attacking the market with rigid logic, or adapting with flexible thinking? This question might be more important than any technical indicator.

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*The above is for informational sharing only and does not constitute investment advice.*
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HashBrowniesvip
· 13m ago
Seriously, I've seen too many highly intelligent people fail here. These two trader friends—one graduated from MIT, the other is an IMO gold medalist—both got beaten up by the market... Now when they talk, they're especially humble, haha. IQ really doesn't help here; it's all about mindset and discipline.
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ProofOfNothingvip
· 19m ago
Really, I've seen too many smart people go bankrupt in the crypto market. Why is it so hard to cut losses?
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WalletWhisperervip
· 23m ago
Honestly, it's hardest for smart people to cut their losses. Every genius I've seen has fallen this way.
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LiquidatedAgainvip
· 32m ago
Oh, you geniuses who stubbornly hold your positions, I'm just the lucky one who survived by cutting my losses in time... It took me three devastating losses to finally understand.
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CoffeeOnChainvip
· 38m ago
Geniuses die from not cutting losses, while ordinary people profit from admitting defeat.
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