Caught up with an old friend after a long time and somehow we ended up talking about crypto..
He's been trading stocks and options for years, so I started explaining Web3, perps, leverage and all the crazy stuff that happens here, specially how you can make/loose 100x in few minutes to hours...
He got interested and decided to try it himself, and asked me to onboard him.
I arranged him with some $$ and also introduced couple of perp dex's from where he can get started along with the trading process, margins, fund transfer, security and wallet stuffs.
I explained him about the risk side, liquidation and intructed him to only start with low leverage and get used to how crypto perps work first.
He said, bro, I'm 100% confident in my strategy, i can predict the movement seeing the candles... I said okay fine, your call... he opened a max leverage trade on zcash:native.
For the first few minutes.... everything looked great.. his PnL went green and at one point he was up around $2K.
Then he told me ZEC was going to hit a certain level, he can see on the chart.
I said... be careful bro, everthing here depends on the BTC movement + news.
A few minutes later, the market did what it does best. His position got hit out with a SL close to liquidation
The good thing, he set SL at first place after opening the trade, he didn't revenge trade, I realized he is pro stock options trader.
I got a call from him this morning. He opened another ZEC trade, but this time he had actually studied the token, looked at the last couple of months of price action and planned the trade properly.
He's will slowly recovering the losses, I trust on his ability and I am sure he will start making profits soon but still confidence without studying and risk management is crazy.