How can contract traders pull themselves out and return to normal life? Honestly, it’s extremely difficult.

I know a friend who just wanted to experience leveraged trading at first. With a starting fund of 2,500 yuan, he grew it to 80,000 within forty-eight hours. At that time, he really thought he was on the path to becoming a trading genius—the money came so easily it felt unreal.

You can guess what happened next—he went all in with heavy leverage, held on stubbornly when prices hit the limit down, and eventually watched his 40,000 drop back to a few hundred. But by then, he was already addicted.

Once he opened the trading platform, he couldn’t take his eyes off it. He forgot to eat, forgot to sleep, and even though he kept saying, “I’ll never touch contracts again,” the moment he saw price movements, he was more eager than anyone to jump back in.

The core appeal of this thing can be summed up in one word—fast. Fifty times, a hundred times leverage, you can do whatever you want. If you bet right on a market turning point, your funds rocket upward. In terms of excitement, the stock market can’t compare, and even traditional gambling pales in comparison. The profit potential is huge, but the losses can be just as fierce.

In the stock market, daily price swings are capped at 10%. In the crypto market? Doubling or halving in a day is nothing special. Once you’ve tasted that thrill of making money so quickly, your mind gets locked onto one obsession: I still have a chance to make a comeback.

But in reality, most people are wiped out by the market before they ever get that chance.

That’s why, once you get into contract trading, very few people can walk away unscathed. It’s not just about greed—the pace is too fast, the feeling is too good, and the whole process feels like a beautiful dream. The dream is wonderful, but sometimes the price of waking up is too hard to bear.

There are indeed opportunities in the market, but there are far more traps. Very few people in this ecosystem can sustain long-term profits. For most traders, responding rationally to market fluctuations and properly controlling risk is much more realistic than dreaming of getting rich overnight.