I want to share a lesson with everyone — I recently took a big hit on a contract.

It was about the RIVER coin. Honestly, whether you're bullish or bearish, it always finds a way to make you uncomfortable. I’ve experienced this firsthand. I checked my account details, and the funding fees alone ate up several thousand dollars. But that’s not the most painful part — what hurts even more is that I actually judged the direction correctly, but in the end? It still resulted in a loss.

This is the reality. Even if your understanding of the market is correct, these invisible costs keep eroding your principal little by little. Retail investors in this game really seem to have no winning edge.