What if your first two trades fail for the same reason?

Would you quit the strategy—or study the failure?

I chose to study it.

In my 100 Trades Project, Cases #001 and #002 were both Breakdown Shorts.

Both looked bearish.

Both failed.

And both ended with the same result:

📈 Unexpected Pump → SL Hit

Case #001 $MARSCOIN — 55/100

My first lesson was simple:

A breakdown does NOT guarantee continuation.

I had a bearish thesis, but I wasn't paying enough attention to liquidity and possible reversal scenarios.

Case #002 $ZEC — 68/100

The same problem happened again.

This time, instead of simply accepting the loss, I started asking:

Where is the liquidity?

Who is trapped?

Could this breakdown be a liquidity grab?

What would invalidate my thesis?

That changed the way I looked at breakdown setups.

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Case #003 $BR — 88/100 🔥

Then came Case #003.

Entry: 0.26

SL: 0.30

TP: 0.20

This time, the breakdown was followed by a retest and rejection.

Price moved in my expected direction.

I used a conservative 50% / 50% management plan:

✅ 50% position closed for realized profit

✅ Remaining 50% protected at Break Even

✅ Runner continued

✅ Final TP 0.20 Hit

Full TP achieved.

But the biggest win wasn't the profit.

It was the improvement in my process.

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The Progress

Case #001 → 55/100

Breakdown failure

⬇️

Case #002 → 68/100

Liquidity & invalidation awareness

⬇️

Case #003 → 88/100

Better confirmation + disciplined management + Full TP

3 Trades. 3 Lessons.

#001 taught me humility.

#002 taught me to question my assumptions.

#003 taught me the value of disciplined execution.

My goal isn't to win all 100 trades.

My goal is to become a better trader by Trade #100 than I was at Trade #1.

3 / 100 completed.

Winrate is 33.33%

97 trades to go. 🚀

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