I am curious about how they become addicted or what are the things or basis you can admit that a person is on trading addiction, it's only when you are in huge losses and you still trading. Or you are in huge debt because of your losses on trading?
I think anyone that is losing and keep on trading and losing more and more would be the one that will do this kind of thing, anyone that is making money from trading but addicted will not want to seek for something like this, that is my guess. Just like gambling addiction, those that seek help are those that are losing money.
The only thing that I can think of that makes a trader addicted is that he keeps winning and earning huge profits, which gives you an addictive effect as you are earning big and you are still hungry for more, but it is more related to greed.
I do not think so. Someone can trade and lose, look for money again and trade and lose again and again. This happened to me when I started to trade as it happened to me when I was addicted to gambling also. Trading addiction can be similar to gambling addiction.
I just think about futures trading as having the same risk as gambling imo, I've heard the term "chasing losses" where it's possible by increasing the leverage if they also limit their trading time. Even though the article doesn't mention on what kind of trading most of the patients' addiction problems are, I'm sure they're mostly activists of that type of trade.
Just as in gambling, chasing losses in trading is the time a trader is most prone to money loss, be it future trading or spot trading, but spot trading is far less risky than future trading that you can increase your leverage which makes trading fund liquidation easy.
Gambling of any sort creates addiction and in cryptocurrency trading seems more like gambling especially Altcoin trading.
Trading bitcoin can also be very risky, at least I traded altcoins and I gained before, I traded bitcoin and also gain. I have traded bitcoin and I lost and I have traded altcoins and I lost. Trading a particular coin require different leverage. You can even reduce the leverage while trading altcoin because of higher volatility and trading fee will reduce.