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The October 10 Crypto Crash, One Year Later: How $19 Billion Got Liquidated in a Day
On October 10–11, 2025, over $19 billion in leveraged crypto positions were force-closed in 24 hours, the largest liquidation event on record. Here's how a liquidation cascade works and what it teaches about leverage.
If-Then Rules for Crypto Trading: How to Turn "I Know Better" Into Actual Discipline
Knowing your bad trading habits doesn't stop them. If-then rules, a well-researched psychology tool, connect a specific trigger to a specific response. Here's how to write them for a 24/7 crypto market.
Risk of Ruin, Explained: The Math Behind "How Much Can I Risk Per Trade?"
Win rate alone doesn't tell you whether a trading system survives. Risk of ruin does — and the math behind it traces back three centuries. Here's how it actually works, including a close look at how Holdy Lab's calculator computes it.
Why You Hold Your Losing Coins and Sell Your Winners Too Early
There's a well-documented reason traders sell winning positions fast and ride losing ones for months hoping for a rebound. It's called the disposition effect, and it's been measured in thousands of real brokerage accounts.
Revenge Trading in Crypto: Why Your Risk Goes Up Right After a Loss
The urge to immediately win back a loss with a bigger, faster trade has a name in behavioral finance — and research shows it reliably makes things worse, not better. Here's the mechanism and how to interrupt it.
Why Most Crypto Day Traders Lose Money (It's Not Bad Information)
Large studies of real trading accounts keep finding the same thing: losses track behavior, not access to information. Here's what the research actually shows, and what to do with it.