There's a 1951 experiment that explains every market panic you've ever lived through.

Psychologist Solomon Asch sat people in a group and showed them a simple picture: one line on the left, three on the right. Which one matches?
It was obvious. A kid could do it.
The catch: everyone else in the room was an actor. One by one, they all gave the same wrong answer out loud — before it was your turn.
Most people caved.
Roughly 3 in 4 stared at the obvious answer, heard the room say something else, and repeated the wrong one too. Not because they couldn't see it. Because everyone else said it first.
The number that matters: alone, with no group, people got it right 99% of the time.
The task was never the hard part. The pressure was.
But Asch found one more thing — the part nobody quotes. Drop a single person into that room who breaks from the group — one honest voice — and the spell shatters. People stop caving almost immediately.
You don't need a crowd to keep your head. You need one dissenter.
Right now, the market is that room. Everyone's repeating the same line, loudly, in unison.
Loud has never been the same as right.
Your edge isn't being the smartest person in the room. It's checking the lines yourself when the whole room is sure.
Find your dissenter. Then do your own read.