A NORMAL STORY IN CRYPTO
#5PC That day also came. I opened the iPhone I’d been using for 3 years, and my portfolio was lush green. I let out a breath: “Finally, all that grinding was worth it.”
Then the market corrected slightly, and altcoins bled. A familiar thought flashed again: “If I’d known, I would’ve cashed out earlier—wait to buy back at a cheaper price. It’ll probably be another scam like the past 2 and a half years.” The idea of taking profits at +40% to buy the bottom suddenly felt perfectly reasonable.
I started checking prices like crazy, hour by hour. One morning I woke up to see it down another 5%. “F**k it!” I sold everything and made a plan to buy back after
All day long the market kept plummeting. I felt relieved because I thought I’d timed the top correctly. But two days later, one early autumn morning, I opened the chart and froze. The entire crash had been completely gobbled up by the buying side. The coins I’d just sold were soaring, columns of charts flying high.
Panic hit. I frantically tried to chase after a few coins that hadn’t run yet—coins I’d heard from other people, even ones I hadn’t read about myself.
But they just sat there. Impatient, I cut my losses and jumped to another coin. Every time I bounced around, the account would bleed away a few more percentage points.
By the end of the day, I hadn’t made a single coin. Meanwhile, the coins I’d once put effort into researching—patiently holding for months—shot up 50–70%. Some went x2, some x5. The train kept running, but this time the destination was Mars, and I was no longer up there
I realized the worst thing wasn’t losing money—it was being forced to watch my initial judgment was right, yet letting fear push me to throw it away.
That’s why I always have to set up an A Plan and a B Plan while my mind is still clear. Because once fear takes the wheel, it will convince me that even the dumbest decisions are perfectly logical
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