# A Recently Hot Case Study

Many retail traders love making excuses after blowing up their accounts, saying they lost money because their capital was too small to withstand volatility—as if having more money would somehow let them recover.

But look at the recent case of Machi Big Brother, the most real-world cautionary tale:

Did he have enough capital? Absolutely.

Yet after less than 60 days in crypto, he held his positions through everything, never cut losses, kept averaging down against the trend, and ended up liquidating his entire position, losing over 400 million and nearly going to zero.

The facts are crystal clear:
In futures trading, holding positions is never a skill—timely stop losses are how you stay alive.

No matter how much money you have, if you hold the wrong direction and refuse to cut losses, the market will completely wipe you out.