42000u is the money I "sold too early" on DUSK—didn’t buy it by mistake, I just sold too soon. This is the most painless yet most painful kind of loss: I didn’t lose my principal, but I lost the portion I could have received.
Background: Before January 2026, I held 800,000 DUSK with an average price of about 0.045. By the end of the year, I needed to pull back some funds, and at the time market sentiment about the mainnet activation’s “good news being cashed out” was rather weak. The price had been stuck around 0.05 for a long time. I thought, “Even if it activates, it’ll probably be just like this,” so I gradually sold all 800,000 DUSK around 0.05 and managed to recover about 40,000u.
Then comes the most familiar plot: the mainnet activation rally kicks off. In a month, the price moves from 0.05 to above 0.10, even reaching a high near 0.12. Those 800,000 DUSK that I sold—at 0.12 I would have had about 42,000u more. During the days the rally played out, I checked the order book every day to calculate this figure—not to count how much I made, but how much I missed.
Looking back at this money, the mistake wasn’t in the act of “selling.” The mistake was in the “judgment basis at the time of selling.” My reason for selling was: “Activation will be like that.” That was my expectation—not based on any data. The truth is: mainnet activation is the milestone DUSK had been waiting for, for a full year. In events like this on DUSK, the pattern has always been “numbness before the cash-out, explosion after.” Its event-driven nature means everyone who loses patience before the event pays the same cost.
Now the rule: for my DUSK position, before a milestone event, I only cut it down—never more than 30%. The rest stays to let the event run its course. “Selling too early” is different from “losing money.” Losses can be stopped; selling too early has no stop-loss line—only discipline.
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Background: Before January 2026, I held 800,000 DUSK with an average price of about 0.045. By the end of the year, I needed to pull back some funds, and at the time market sentiment about the mainnet activation’s “good news being cashed out” was rather weak. The price had been stuck around 0.05 for a long time. I thought, “Even if it activates, it’ll probably be just like this,” so I gradually sold all 800,000 DUSK around 0.05 and managed to recover about 40,000u.
Then comes the most familiar plot: the mainnet activation rally kicks off. In a month, the price moves from 0.05 to above 0.10, even reaching a high near 0.12. Those 800,000 DUSK that I sold—at 0.12 I would have had about 42,000u more. During the days the rally played out, I checked the order book every day to calculate this figure—not to count how much I made, but how much I missed.
Looking back at this money, the mistake wasn’t in the act of “selling.” The mistake was in the “judgment basis at the time of selling.” My reason for selling was: “Activation will be like that.” That was my expectation—not based on any data. The truth is: mainnet activation is the milestone DUSK had been waiting for, for a full year. In events like this on DUSK, the pattern has always been “numbness before the cash-out, explosion after.” Its event-driven nature means everyone who loses patience before the event pays the same cost.
Now the rule: for my DUSK position, before a milestone event, I only cut it down—never more than 30%. The rest stays to let the event run its course. “Selling too early” is different from “losing money.” Losses can be stopped; selling too early has no stop-loss line—only discipline.
@Dusk $DUSK #dusk
