The biggest mistake I made was: buying a 2x leveraged long ETF with a long-term holding mindset, thinking that if the underlying stock returned to its highs, the ETF would also return to its peak... I originally intended to hold it for two or three years, until one day I saw that the underlying stock hadn't even reached its lowest point yet, but the ETF was already 30% lower than its previous low. I was completely stunned.

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The Seven Biggest Pitfalls in US Stocks: How I Iterated

1️⃣ When stocks are surging rapidly, most people are afraid to buy. They want to wait for a pullback or a specific price level before entering. The problem is that when the stock actually pulls back, the trend is gone. Buying in at that point is like catching a falling knife. Once you're trapped and down by tens of percentage points, these same people start wailing, claiming savings are a scam and the cycle is over. 2️⃣ For stocks that have already been hyped, people still obsess over financial reports, deceiving themselves into thinking they are 'value investing' because the reports look good. Actually, many private equity bosses frequently make this mistake. Take Pop Mart, Yangtze Optical Fibre, and Nokia, which I mentioned earlier; even those who focus on fundamentals think the earnings are decent and decide to hold...

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