Don't Make My Mistake

Collective insight

What people learned about investing

Observations aggregated from 1 mistakes submitted to this archive. Not research — just what people told us it cost them.

1

Mistakes

€22,000

Money lost

€22,000

Average when money was lost

1

Countries

What keeps repeating

crypto1risk1fomo1

The most expensive of them

The lessons

  1. Concentration is how you get rich and also how you get wiped out. Never risk money you would need to earn back.

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The mistakes behind them

I put my entire savings into one crypto coin

🇵🇹 Portugal · 📈 Investing · 20-29

What happened

A friend was making money fast and I did not want to be the only one missing out. I moved €22,000 into a single token at its peak and refused to sell on the way down.

What it cost€22,000Time lost2 yearsEmotional costShameful

What I learned

Concentration is how you get rich and also how you get wiped out. Never risk money you would need to earn back.

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