This trade didn’t start by taking profit right away. The price stayed stuck in a high-range, moving sideways, repeatedly lifting and then falling back, as if it were deliberately testing people’s patience. I didn’t treat short-term fluctuations as a trend change—I only recorded 0.16207 and 0.14276, and kept observing whether there was real buy support above.

In the middle, there was a quick rebound that almost swept the short out. Honestly, in that moment I was still panicked. But after the rebound, the price didn’t keep rising—instead, it dropped back again into the original area. That suggests the rally was more like a bull trap; people who chased the position started exiting one after another, and sell pressure gradually began to show.

Later on, the decline became smoother and smoother. The key levels that had been accumulated at the high point finally got released, resulting in +846.72%. The most important thing to revisit this time isn’t the number itself—it’s that before the market gave any answer, I didn’t overturn my original judgment just because of a single bullish K-line.

In a bearish market, patience isn’t about stubbornly holding on. It’s knowing what you’re waiting for. A rebound without real support is often just the final round of shaking; only when the real sell-off hits do those seemingly boring waits start to matter.

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