#hype 19:47 minutes closed long at price 82.1249, high 86.773, floating profit 3000u. Closed long again at #zec 19:40 minutes, price 793, high 834.49, floating profit 3800u. A 100% retracement is my normal state. The drawdown happens because I have a firm bullish mindset. #hype My idea is to see above 90; and even I think breaking 100 is possible. #zec I see consolidation around 867, so I didn’t close the position. In this market, there’s no right or wrong in logic; the idea doesn’t matter. I can understand my bullish thesis! But what I did wrong was: as the price action evolved, I did nothing. #zec Once it reached 834.49, that was the daily resistance level—this is where I should have reduced the position. But I didn’t. I didn’t reduce because I thought I could maximize profit—that part is understandable. But then ZEC’s high at 834.49 failed and the real body broke below 806.65. According to my own trading logic, no matter what, I should have reduced—at the very least, closed. But I didn’t. Because I’m bullish. Being bullish isn’t the mistake—the mistake is wanting the market to move according to my idea, rather than letting my idea change with the market. HYPE is the same: it didn’t adapt to the price action. Breaking into a new high and continuing to look bullish is understandable. But once the high comes back down and the real body breaks below 83.163, there should be action—either reduce or close. Now this caused me to have to close HYPE early to top up the ZEC margin. Because as long as ZEC’s real body doesn’t break 772.57, the uptrend remains. But at that time my liquidation happened at 778, and I had to close the HYPE position that still had a few hundred u of floating profit to replenish the ZEC margin. HYPE’s real body didn’t break 81.537, and the bullish trend is still there. But the real problem was that my actions didn’t adapt to the price action, which made me extremely passive! HYPE still hasn’t broken—my trade has its own logic and it’s not wrong. What’s wrong is thinking the market would move according to my thesis, instead of adjusting based on what the market actually does. If back then ZEC and HYPE had broken below the levels where I should have acted, and if next ZEC broke below 772 and the bullish trend changed, I would still have “bullets”—and I could even wait and look for a short near the 834 area. But because I didn’t change randomly with the price, it made me extremely passive. If I’m wrong, this ZEC trade would lose about 2900u. Fortunately, on the road back to breakeven this time I withdrew 80% of the funds. Otherwise, this last few-hundred-u “curse” would have made me repeat the same mistake again and give all the profit back!