FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt): Selling at the bottom during a crash — why do you always "cut losses before dawn"?


📉 Messages are flying everywhere, the K-line keeps dumping, and account losses keep expanding. Watching your shrinking principal, you have only one thought in your head: "It's over, it's going to drop more, get out now!"
So you hit "market close" at the lowest point.
The result? As soon as you close, the market V-reverses and shoots up without looking back.💔
This is FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) destroying your rationality.
Why do you always "sell at the bottom"?
Because humans have an extreme craving for "certainty." During a crash, the brain amplifies fear, making you feel "if I don't sell, it will go to zero." But in reality, extreme panic often means emotions have bottomed out.
How to overcome FUD?
1️⃣ Turn off feeds and news: During a crash, 90% of the news is emotional venting — the more you read, the more panicked you become.
2️⃣ Look at technical levels, not your account: To decide whether to cut losses, check if key support has been broken, not how much USD you've lost.
3️⃣ Plan ahead: Before opening a position, decide that if it breaks a certain level, you'll accept the loss. Execute mechanically at that level, without emotion.
💡 Quote of the day: "Be fearful when others are greedy" is a cliché. When others are fearful, at least you should "not panic blindly."$BTC $ETH
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LiquidityLibrarian
· 24m ago
So the most important thing to set in the contract is the phone usage time limit, not the stop loss.
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RugCheckSkeptic
· 32m ago
When others are fearful, I am greedy? When I am fearful, I just want to unplug the network cable.
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ExitLiqNow
· 40m ago
If you don't do your homework on key support levels in normal times, you simply won't have time to look when a plunge comes.
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InstantNoodlesWithContracts
· 1h ago
Rule 3 is too real; mechanical execution is really inhuman, but it works.
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SheepOnTheFarSideOfJupiter
· 2h ago
Turning off the plaza can indeed reduce losses by half, personally tested.
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