2025-12-25 01:20:55

Everyone wants to buy at the lowest point of the bear market, but reality is quite harsh. When the market truly drops, panic spreads, and the air is filled with bearish voices. Your mindset also collapses along with it.

What’s even more heartbreaking is— even if you have the courage to build positions at low levels, you simply cannot touch the absolute bottom. The price rebounds once, making you think you’ve caught the bottom, only to crash again. Your account’s unrealized losses keep expanding, and your psychological defenses gradually break down. You keep asking yourself: Am I seeing this wrong?

This is the gap between wanting to act and actually acting. In theory, the investment logic is clear, but in practice, it turns into a psychological game. Those who make it to the end are often not the ones with the strongest technical skills, but the ones with the strongest mental resilience.

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SolidityStruggler

· 7h ago

Bottom fishing is easy to talk about, but when the moment comes, I chicken out. I'm a typical armchair strategist. From the beginning, I shouldn't have thought about probing, but I still couldn't escape being beaten repeatedly. In the end, this game isn't really about analytical ability; it's about who can keep their composure the longest.

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rug_connoisseur

· 16h ago

Really, I said I would catch the bottom, but in the end I got trapped. When the mood collapses, all technical analysis becomes a joke. It's true that you need to build at low levels, but the problem is that you can't get past the psychological barrier—once it drops, you want to cut. Buying the dip = buying at the waist, isn't that the universal rule in the crypto world? Talking on paper and actual trading are worlds apart; most people die from their mindset, not their strategy. Misreading the trend? No, it's just that they don't have a strong enough heart to survive the floating losses. In the end, those who survive are either numb or the ones who simply don't have the money to add positions. The problem isn't where the bottom is; it's how long you can endure the psychological torment.

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TopBuyerBottomSeller

· 16h ago

Buying the rebound and getting trapped again, this mindset definitely needs practice --- Exactly right, anyone can talk about theory on paper, but once it hits real money, you become a leek --- Who knows where the bottom is, anyway I always buy halfway up the mountain --- The psychological defense line is so real, watching the account decline really drives you crazy --- Technical analysis is useless if your mindset collapses, everything is over --- That's why most people can't make big money, they can't endure that psychological torment --- I totally agree, thinking you've found the bottom only to see it fall further, unbelievable --- So in crypto trading, it ultimately comes down to who has a tough enough heart and who can hold on

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LightningLady

· 16h ago

Yeah, you're right, that really hits home. I'm that sucker who thought I was copying everything down and ended up getting trapped. When is the bottom actually the bottom? Who the hell can precisely hit it? When it truly crashes, no one dares to move; everyone is waiting for it to go lower. In the end, it keeps rising while I’m still bearish. Mindset is more important than any K-line analysis. Unfortunately, by the time I realize this, I’ve already lost a lot. People with strong mental resilience do tend to live longer, but I’m genuinely not tough. As soon as I see floating losses, I start questioning life. A bear market is a psychological battlefield—who gives up first wins.

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SnapshotDayLaborer

· 16h ago

Buying the dip at low levels sounds easy, but when that moment comes, you'll realize what it means to have a mental breakdown. That's exactly how I was repeatedly hammered; even when my judgment was correct, I still took the hit. Mental resilience is the decisive factor; this point needs to be made clear. The account is green again, so how can there still be people daring to add positions at this time? The seemingly simple logic is completely different in actual practice. Those who can truly survive until the end are the ones with enough mental toughness.

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