Your 2025 trading mistakes

[Achalugo BTC]

Of course, it's like a normal say here that only trade with the amount of money that you can afford to lose, but how many of us sticks to that rule. My worst mistake in trading was to depend on technical analysis when opening a position because this year was different due to the news from Trump trade war with China. I ran at loss and decided not to believe on technical analysis anymore since fundamental analysis plays a major role on bitcoin price movement.

This has also been the mistakes of many other fellows here, they totally depends on technical analysis, even though they knew its not supposed to depend on it totally.
Yet, they still do it, which they will refused or ignore to follow the rules and regulation in order not to be tempted to do what will later destroy their investment and might make them to even give up in anything that concerns crypto but its essential to also remember that anything crypto, whether its investing or trading needs patience in order to get through it.

[BlackBaron]

This is a mistake that can be corrected in the next year, because it's a mistake that could have been anticipated from the start by setting a stop loss. This is a common mistake that many people make.

I have also experienced mistakes like this until I finally realized that in the future installing stop loses is something that I should not miss. And I have this kind of thinking and apply it to myself, when I make the same mistake then it is no longer a mistake, but a foolishness.

The trivial thing about this is he has a very good run on 2 quarters already while he is not applying stop loss that time. Over confidence for not applying stop loss after winning is something that a human error can repeatedly do when they are on the winning streak.

Stop loss should be applied at all time and I guess this lesson learned this year will be applied properly next year.

Stop loss is now being ignored by some trader by using cross position and applying huge capital on a small trade for a better liquidation price.

I can understand that, when we always succeed without setting stoplos then at that time our confidence will increase dramatically and this is where the mistake lies. We should be able to control our minds so that we don't feel that what we do will always work, because the market can change at any time and this will cause us to experience losses that are even greater than the profits we get.

I'm sure he is knowledgeable about trading, but then again the market can crash unexpectedly and it can happen very quickly. So to anticipate that then in the future we should put a stop los.

[Botnake]

I think overtrading and overconfidence in trading boils down on the same thought, thus losing your funds because of wrong behavior and strategy when trading.

These are often my mistakes when trading, too much confidence leads to overtrading, and eventually ruin all my set plans prior to final trading in the market.

I know these are not good traits as a responsible trader, but sometimes the greed in us really strikes in and cause our trading goals to vanish in the air.

[Asiska02]

There is this thought that comes to mind at every beginning of the year that this year will be the year I will have a breakthrough at trading, then along the way I feel tired, want to give up but seeing how far one has come, one just wants to keep it up and see what they can achieve.

Risking too much has never been my thing in trading, even as i don’t really keep good records on my trading activities, I take a loss as a loss and move on and take a win as a profit and spend immediately. I don’t fund my account from my wins, anytime I get profit, I spend and can wait even after blowing the account to fund with the money i use to fund only which is what I can afford to lose.

I will say my trading mistake for the year is not been consistent in the game even when I have a clear plan on what I want to achieve and have been working towards it. Too many activities cannot make you focus on trading, and I think that has contributed to not getting the edge I really want but everything is still cool.

[Woodie]

Trading mistake number 1, Overtrading because of being trigger happy.. jeez trading isn't easy if we are going to be honest with ourselves but then again we can't give up because there is surely light at the end of the tunnel..

Mistake number 2, trying to change strategies... I think I have come to a conclusion that all strategies work but they depend on ones patience, risk management and some understanding & concentration on the markets of what's happening.. probably some interest on the happenings of the world as these do affect markets one way or another.

[xLays]

Probably my biggest mistake in trading this year was focusing too much on TON based tokens like DOGS and Hamster Kombat, as well as some Solana tokens and sites that I thought were already trusted but ended up being rug pulls or turning into nothing.
If I had just bought Bitcoin and HODL it instead, I would have made some profit if I sold it now. Unlike the tokens I’m holding such as DOGS and HMSTR which have all dropped heavily in value.
So yeah, instead of chasing tokens, it’s probably better to focus on the main coins like BTC, ETH and BNB.

[nelson4lov]

I'm not sure I made more mistakes in 2025 that I've done in other years. The thing is, 2025 was a particularly difficult year. We first started with tariffs and trade wars that resulted in huge losses for most traders. Then, there were other events that made it a terrible year like the 10/10 incidents that happened on binance. No way one could've prepared for such situation.  This was a tough year for most crypto traders and in independent of mistakes.