Most retail portfolios get completely wiped out near market peaks not because they bought the wrong assets, but because they refused to take a single dollar off the table.

Watching your unrealized gains evaporate overnight while hoping for just one more green candle is a brutal feeling every veteran trader knows too well. You tell yourself you will exit at the exact top, yet greed convinces you that selling today is leaving life-changing money behind.

I have lived through enough cycles to know that market euphoria is the ultimate trap. When sentiment indexes flash extreme greed and everyone starts treating $BTC like an infinite money glitch, liquidity is quietly shifting into defensive plays or high-conviction rotations like $ONDO and $ICP . Smart money uses peak hype to offload into resting bids, not to open aggressive new positions.

A local top rarely looks like a sudden crash in the first few days. Instead, it looks like choppy distribution where every dip gets bought with slightly less momentum until buyers run out of gas. If you do not have a disciplined exit strategy mapped out in advance, the market will gladly execute one for you at a steep discount.

Are you taking chips off the table during this move, or holding everything through the volatility?

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