Making More Money and Getting Worse Faster

` He heard it so often that he started feeling as if he were truly alert all the time. In reality, he was already getting high on it. The stop-loss failure happened on a Thursday. At 10 a.m., ETH suddenly printed a long red candle and gave back all of the overnight recovery in just a few minutes. Pei Yanzhou stared at the price with only one thought: add margin first, don’t get liquidated. But after he added funds, the market simply paused at a lower level, as if it had waited for him to hand over all his bullets before moving again. He tried to close the position. Severe slippage made the order impossible to fill. The group chat filled with words he now knew too well: `wick`, `liquidity vacuum`, `exchange hunting stops`, `whale sweep`.