These are the errors that account for most of the avoidable losses, and none of them come from bad luck.
1. Choosing a tier for the percentage
The largest number is the most advertised, so the largest tier attracts the people who have thought least about it. The cap is a ceiling on a product, not a reason to pick it — what the figure means.
Correction: choose the amount you could hold, then the tier follows.
2. Depositing money with a date on it
Emergency funds, a deposit for a course, money owed to someone. The cycle has a fixed length, and it does not know about your plans.
Correction: the horizon check in the risk checklist.
3. Believing a past payout predicts the next one
Seeing the cycle complete once is genuinely useful information — about the mechanics, not about the market. The two are separate.
Correction: read how a cycle works and what moves the price as two different subjects.
4. Answering a message that asks for a code
Not an deposit decision at all, and the one that costs the most when it goes wrong. A real service never asks for a code, a password or a recovery phrase.
Correction: the scam patterns and the safety checklist.
5. Putting everything in
All the money, in one asset class, with one operator, in a cycle that has not finished. Every one of those is a separate concentration.
Correction: why not to concentrate.
If you only do one thing
Read the Terms of Service and the Risk Disclosure before depositing anything. They are short, they are binding, and they answer every question in this list. Everything else on this site is explanation, and explanation is not a contract.