// how accounts die
You already know how this goes.
The loss lands, and before the dust has settled you’ve re-entered. Same pair, bigger size, telling yourself it’s a new trade. It was never a knowledge problem, you knew and it happened anyway. Every blown account dies one of six ways. Not from a bad strategy. From one of six moves I have made myself, more than once. Each one has a gate standing in front of it now.
The revenge trade.The loss lands and you’re back in within a minute, at bigger size, trying to win it back. One losing trade becomes a losing night. The post-loss cooldown and the revenge-window block stand exactly there.
Averaging down.Adding to a loser feels like a discount. A falling price is not a bargain, it is information. The same-direction add against an underwater position gets BLOCKED at the moment you try it.
The moved stop.You placed it while you were calm. Then price came close and you gave it room, and that room is where accounts die. G5 fails the trade the moment the stop widens.
The winner giveback.Fearful when you’re winning, hopeful when you’re losing: winners get cut early, losers get held. Run that flip long enough and the losses outweigh the wins at any win rate. G7 holds the exit rules you committed before entry.
The size-up.A streak whispers that the rules are for other people. Size creeps until one ordinary loss undoes the week. G4 checks every trade against the same size rule, streak or no streak.
One more trade.Past the limit, tired, chasing a round number back. Nobody course-corrects mid-binge. G6 counts the session and G8 suspends it.
None of these is a knowledge problem, and none of them survives a rule enforced from outside your own head. That is the whole product.