The recent price action in the earlier part has been quite frustrating. The price hovered around 0.05794 for a long time; on the surface it looked strong, but in reality every rebound failed to follow through. I wasn’t watching those few candles that pushed the price up—I was watching the repeated spike-and-retrace that kept showing up at high levels. When I first started shorting, I also wasn’t sure. After all, the market didn’t immediately dump; instead, it kept making several quick wicks. Many people probably feel the same: you think the direction is bearish, but you’re always afraid that the next second will blow you up. So you end up repeatedly confirming whether you’re catching a falling knife. When the price came near 0.04029, the shorts finally took over the rhythm, and those earlier fake breakouts were cashed out one by one. In the end, this trade recorded +601.84%. It turned out more solid than I expected. Most importantly, I didn’t panic and jump off just because of a brief rebound. This time it made me more confident in an old lesson: as long as the pressure at the highs hasn’t disappeared, don’t get led astray by a few rebound K-lines. It’s not because it has fallen that I’m bearish—it's because the sell pressure I saw earlier has been there all along; the market just took a bit of time to deliver the answer. $BTC $ETH

I only meant to take a quick glance at the market screen, but I didn’t expect that one look to instantly lift my mood. In the early session, when prices were just being slammed lower, $XPIN was still repeatedly probing. When many people saw the selloff, they started to panic, but what I was watching was whether the pullback had broken down—whether the move would lose the level and whether there was support below to take it. When the price was nearing 0.0012342, the key level wasn’t truly being driven through; instead, selling pressure gradually eased. I judged the bulls hadn’t exited yet, so I issued a signal to go long, and waited for it to play out on its own. Now the price has come to 0.0014519. In this round, the unrealized profit on the long position is +830.15%. This slice of profit feels good—turns out that the earlier waiting wasn’t for nothing. I’ll close 70% first; with the remaining 30%, I’ll push the protection level back toward the cost basis. If it keeps charging forward, let the profits run. And even if it pulls back, don’t give back what you’ve already secured. The market won’t speed up just because you’re in a rush. Being flat is not a crime—making random trades is the mistake. Friends who haven’t jumped in yet shouldn’t chase the current pace. Wait until the next round’s structure is clear before you move—there will still be opportunities. Don’t rush. $BTC $ETH

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. $BTC $ETH