This short position could be eaten in— the key wasn’t that I suddenly turned bearish, but that the previous push up from the high level and the subsequent drop-back was too obvious. The price kept grinding around 29,885.23; several times I tried to push higher, but selling pressure pressed it back down. At the time, I felt that the resistance above wasn’t solid.

What really made it uncomfortable was that after entering, it didn’t just immediately dump; instead, it kept whipsawing with needle-like moves both ways. The chart at one point looked like it was washing out shorts. Honestly, during that period my hands were itchy—I almost exited early because of short-term fluctuations, but the short-side thesis wasn’t broken. I still chose to wait a bit longer.

Later, when the price rose to around 27,825.15, sell pressure began to release continuously, and the market finally gave a clear response. The result of this trade was +640.79%. It wasn’t about chasing a short at the top—it was about waiting for high-level resistance and confirmation before stepping in.

If you stay in crypto long enough, you’ll know the easiest mistake is getting emotional and chasing trades when you only see prices falling. Looking back now, the most worth revisiting in this time isn’t how much I made, but the fact that I wasn’t washed out by the earlier grinding. My judgment and patience both held up under the test.

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