The most worth revisiting this time isn’t how much the short trade made, but the fact that I finally didn’t get tricked back into it by a single rebound bullish candle. At the high level, there were consecutive attempts to surge up and then fall back. The price looked pretty strong, but in reality, every time it was pulled up, someone was dumping into it. The order book was starting to show signs of fatigue.

The move from 2111.63 to 1927.31 wasn’t straight; a few counter-extensions made people wonder whether the shakeout was already over. I only confirmed one thing at the time: whether the support had truly returned. The answer had always been no, so I didn’t rush to get out. In the end, I took this result with a +1517.06% gain.

The most grinding part of the crypto space is that even if you get the direction right, you still have to hold up your emotions. A lot of people don’t judge it wrong—they get washed out by the small fluctuations in the middle. Looking back now, this drop didn’t happen suddenly. The key high-level areas that had been built up already were sending warnings, it was just a question of whether you dared to trust your own judgment at the time.

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