Some things you will experience that will cost you everything unless you control them. Making money is not that hard. Keeping it is👇🏼 1. You are making money, but you aren’t making enough. You want more. “That trade kept pumping, your entry wasn’t perfect, you didn’t size up properly” - you keep complaining. Wins don’t satisfy you and even winning becomes insufferable. 2. You start comparing yourself to others and how they are doing. Social media exacerbates your apparent mediocrity because you see everyone winning. It doesn’t matter how much you make, you always see someone making better than you. 3. You feel you are a genius and making money is easy. You don’t know yet but the market is reinforcing bad habits that one day will bite you back. 4. You ramp up your lifestyle because you extrapolate your current portfolio growth to the future. You think that your level of earnings will persist and you spend like your performance is a constant function in time. 5. You devalue money and think are entitled to it. Now you spend carelessly the same amount of money you used to grind for. Not much later you will realize how much money that was. 6. You will increase your goals after hitting them due to the combination of the aforementioned points so leaving the game becomes harder as you keep making more money. 7. You keep thinking this is a sprint not realizing it is a marathon. Your stress grows as social media pushes for its incentive to keep you hooked with sentences like “the last cycle ever”, or “the final stage of the cycle which is the one with the biggest returns”. 8. When things go south, your ego won’t allow you to realize losses and accept you are wrong, and you will always chase your peak net worth, deep down knowing it will be a race to 0. A fatal reflexivity which increases risk, shortens time horizons, and increases stress and scarcity feelings as you keep losing money. Remember, making money is easy. Keeping money isn’t. Only a few do. Stay grounded. On your lane. Fight euphoria. Value money. Stop caring about others. Be rational. Keep your hard-earned money.