4 years trading is still a beginner. It is not moderately experienced at all.
You bet our home, on a broker you didn't know, on a market whose characteristics you didn't know (and still don't), with no backup communication systems, no idea of the execution speed of your broker, with a loan agreement you probably didn't understand.
Highly leveraged instruments, daytraded with 400K positions, are not for the beginner trader.
I feel sorry you didn't understand that when you were trading and your broker should really have ascertained this prior to giving you a loan. However, sometimes, you do need to take personal responsibility too. The people who were long XIV when it dropped 93% overnight also misunderstood what they were trading too, or had risk management rules in place to ensure it wasn't a large percentage of their net worth.
As soon as you start thinking about "if I lose 10 (or more) trades in a row, some of them catastrophic with crazy losses, what happens?" your mindset will dramatically change.
You bet our home, on a broker you didn't know, on a market whose characteristics you didn't know (and still don't), with no backup communication systems, no idea of the execution speed of your broker, with a loan agreement you probably didn't understand.
Highly leveraged instruments, daytraded with 400K positions, are not for the beginner trader.
I feel sorry you didn't understand that when you were trading and your broker should really have ascertained this prior to giving you a loan. However, sometimes, you do need to take personal responsibility too. The people who were long XIV when it dropped 93% overnight also misunderstood what they were trading too, or had risk management rules in place to ensure it wasn't a large percentage of their net worth.
As soon as you start thinking about "if I lose 10 (or more) trades in a row, some of them catastrophic with crazy losses, what happens?" your mindset will dramatically change.