The night I sat at 4.8% down, with 0.2 to spare
He is thirty-two, works as a dispatcher at a logistics firm, and trades after hours. Five years in spot, two in perps, and the pace has always been slow — some months he opens fewer than ten positions. His method is conservative to the point of being stubborn: Bitcoin only, short only, and once an order is live he is not allowed to touch the parameters. He is the first to say none of that came from insight. It is what three failed challenges left him with. This was his fourth attempt. He opened exactly one position and held it for a little over eighteen hours. At its worst the floating loss sat at 4.8% of the account, two tenths of a point from the 5% line. He didn't add and he didn't cut.
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