A recurring market cycle has emerged in Bitcoin trading, characterized by retail traders entering positions with excessive leverage in pursuit of outsized returns. These leveraged positions are frequently liquidated when institutional hedge funds execute downward price movements, resulting in total loss of capital for the over-leveraged traders while institutions profit from short positions. As Bitcoin stabilizes and begins to recover, the same cohort of traders is drawn back into high-leverage bets, creating a repetitive loop of accumulation, liquidation, and recovery that continues to benefit institutional players at the expense of speculative retail participants.