When I missed the first leg of the drop up front, I actually felt a bit impatient to trade. Seeing the price get dumped fast makes it easy to develop a chase-short impulse. But if you’ve been in crypto long enough, you know that after the first big bearish candle, going to catch a falling knife usually isn’t getting on board—it’s more like sending yourself into a range-bound churn. So I waited until the rebound near 0.21896 failed to gain traction before I started looking for a short opportunity again.

This wait wasn’t wasted. During the price’s pullback, it kept failing to hold; then another round of dumping came in, and people who originally wanted to bottom-fish started to lose their nerve. When the market moved to around 0.13507, the earlier weakness was magnified to the point of being undeniable, and I’m glad I didn’t get thrown off and start chasing just because I’d missed the entry.

The end result is recorded as +939.27%. The feedback this trade gave me was very direct: missing out isn’t scary—what’s dangerous is chasing recklessly and messing up the trading rhythm. The core of profiting from a down move isn’t catching every segment; it’s, after you confirm that the support isn’t holding, having the courage to wait patiently for the answer based on your own judgment.

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