#数字货币市场洞察 I've seen a very counterintuitive research finding:
Taleb (the author of "The Black Swan") specifically wrote a paper analyzing stop-losses. He used mathematical tools like Brownian motion and absorbing barriers to run the numbers, and the conclusion is pretty sobering—your stop-loss line in a high-volatility market may actually be a "money-losing machine."
Why? Because the market has noise. The price wobbles and triggers your stop-loss, so you sell. Then it bounces back up.
Repeat this a few times, and the losses just accumulate like that. What's even worse is the fat-tail effect: when a real big move finally happens, you've already been forced out by those small fluctuations. $ETH When the underlying asset is highly volatile, this problem becomes even more obvious.
So it's not that you can't use stop-losses, but don't blindly believe they can "perfectly control risk." Sometimes, they're actually the risk themselves.
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Ramen_Until_Rich
· 16h ago
Damn, this is the trap I fall into every day... It always goes up right after I sell, happens every time.
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NFTBlackHole
· 16h ago
Taleb's recent comments are pretty spot on. I've been stopped out a few times before... Every time I sell at a loss, the price rebounds right after. It's really like giving away free money.
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MemeTokenGenius
· 16h ago
Damn, isn't this exactly what I've been saying all along? Stop-losses are just a tool to harvest retail investors.
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FOMOSapien
· 16h ago
Damn, why didn't I think of this logic... No wonder my ETH always gets washed out.
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RugDocScientist
· 16h ago
Taleb's analysis this time is spot on—stop-loss orders actually turn into a meat grinder for investors. I really relate to this.
#数字货币市场洞察 I've seen a very counterintuitive research finding:
Taleb (the author of "The Black Swan") specifically wrote a paper analyzing stop-losses. He used mathematical tools like Brownian motion and absorbing barriers to run the numbers, and the conclusion is pretty sobering—your stop-loss line in a high-volatility market may actually be a "money-losing machine."
Why? Because the market has noise. The price wobbles and triggers your stop-loss, so you sell. Then it bounces back up.
Repeat this a few times, and the losses just accumulate like that. What's even worse is the fat-tail effect: when a real big move finally happens, you've already been forced out by those small fluctuations. $ETH When the underlying asset is highly volatile, this problem becomes even more obvious.
So it's not that you can't use stop-losses, but don't blindly believe they can "perfectly control risk." Sometimes, they're actually the risk themselves.