When I missed the first leg of the drop earlier, honestly, I felt a bit itchy inside. Seeing the price keep sliding down all the way easily triggers the urge to chase a short. But I didn’t just catch the falling knife directly; instead, I waited for a rebound and re-tested around 0.0001670, confirming there was still sell pressure overhead before choosing to follow the short-side rhythm.

After getting in, the market churned for a while first, and several counter-bounces made me wonder whether I’d judged too early. The hardest part wasn’t how much I was losing, but the fear that I’d enter and then it would get pulled up. Later, the price kept being pressed from 0.0001670 down to 0.000059, and my post-trade review showed a written gain of +1273.35%.

This move made me glad I didn’t get flustered from missing the entry and start chasing blindly, and I also didn’t lose my head after the selloff started to accelerate. The real feedback I got came from waiting for a familiar pressure/rejection signal, not just rushing in because I saw red candles.

The market has already validated the short thesis, but I won’t treat one successful trade as an answer I can just copy going forward. Missing the first leg isn’t the scary part. What’s scary is trying to claw back a missed entry feeling, and then ending up losing both the rhythm and the mindset.

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