2025-12-17 17:21:49

I saw a case where a retail investor opened a short position of 10,000 coins at a price of 0.4 three days ago. They've held it until now, and the price is still at 0.4, but their principal has already disappeared. At the same time, a big player also lost 1 million coins. This reflects a harsh reality: market participants all know that certain coins will fall, but they can't pinpoint the exact timing. Those who are short are hesitant, afraid of being liquidated; those hoping to profit from the price difference are also afraid of a sudden crash.

This is the game rule for low-liquidity tokens. The dealer's automated matching bots are constantly adjusting the long-short ratio, with a simple goal—maximizing profits by controlling the price. As long as retail investors enter, it's basically a pre-arranged script. In this mode, what can individual investors do to compete against mechanized dealers?

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gas_fee_therapy

· 2025-12-17 17:46

Prices stay the same, the principal is gone, this is outrageous, leverage is really poison --- Not being able to gauge the node is a fatal flaw; no matter how smart retail investors are, they can't beat the robots --- Low liquidity coins are just traps; the market makers can play us however they want, and we have to kneel --- Losing 1 million coins? That’s despairing. I will never touch this kind of thing again --- Ultimately, it's still the information gap that’s too big; retail investors are always a step behind --- Rather than fighting against the market makers, it's better to admit defeat; anyway, you can't win --- Afraid of liquidation and also afraid of a crash, it's truly a dilemma of both advancing and retreating

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CryptoNomics

· 2025-12-17 17:41

nah this is just survivor bias wrapped in a liquidation porn narrative. if we actually ran a regression analysis on whale vs retail PnL distributions across low-liquidity pairs, the correlation matrix would tell a different story. most people conflate "i got rekt" with "the game is rigged"—classic causality fallacy.

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