This earlier price action once made me think that the short position might be forced to exit. The price kept tugging back and forth around 0.4076, grinding like a millstone—it was really annoying. Especially after several rebounds that came so quickly, it was easy for my emotions to get carried away, and I really did have thoughts of giving up.

But what I was watching wasn’t any single candlestick—it was whether there was real follow-through and genuine support after each push higher. As it turned out, the sell pressure at the highs kept coming. The rebounds didn’t continue. After the last spike topped out and pulled back, the shorts truly started to gain momentum, and the market didn’t give chasing traders many comfortable entry opportunities.

When the price reached 0.3461, the post-trade review result came out to +1070.59%. This time, I used an 80/20 split for staged handling. The protective level was coordinated with the execution rhythm. I didn’t get thrown off by a short-term snapback, and I also didn’t keep adding shorts after the sell-off began to accelerate.

Old players all know that the hardest money to make isn’t usually from the trend itself—it’s from that torturous waiting period before the trend actually kicks off. After it dropped, I agreed even more with the short logic, but I wouldn’t let it get into my head. If you can read and understand the pressure, you also need to know that when you miss the move, you don’t chase.

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