This short position could still pay off—not because I only chased after seeing the dump, but because when price first surged up and then rolled over, I noticed that the buy-side support above was getting increasingly weak. Back then the order book looked quite lively, but there weren’t many people truly willing to take it. I wrote down 0.06816 and 0.05041, and then waited for the price to move on its own to show direction.

That choppy period of grinding the market was indeed quite torturous. A few times price tried to push higher and it almost shook me out. Honestly, when you’re itching to trade, it’s easiest to move too impulsively. But I kept rechecking that there was no new support at the high levels—so the short logic hadn’t been broken. In the end, I still held back and didn’t chase by adding.

Later, a single dumping candle completely opened the pace: sell pressure kept coming out one after another, and my earlier judgment was finally validated by the market. The result was recorded as +1251.28%. The most comfortable part of this trade isn’t just the outcome—it’s that I wasn’t frightened by a fake breakout into getting off early.

If you’ve spent enough time in the crypto circle, you’ll know the real difficulty isn’t just seeing the decline—it’s staying clear-headed during that dull stretch before it drops. It’s not that you go short after it falls; it’s that the problems at the high levels have been there all along. Sometimes patience is worth more than speed of the hand.

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