Last week, a trader watched their $20,000 position in $SPCX melt away, only to lose another $30,000 by trying to outsmart the market trend.

We have all been there, holding onto a bag because our conviction tells us the bounce is just around the corner, only to watch the chart dump further. It is the classic trap of letting ego dictate your risk management instead of hard data.

This $50,000 wipeout on $SPCX is a textbook case of what traders call the sunk cost fallacy. It draws a striking parallel to the early days of high-volatility tokens like $BOME, where buyers kept adding to their losing positions during the initial retracement, hoping for a quick recovery that never came. In both cases, the mistake was not the initial bad entry, but the decision to fight the market trend with more capital.

When you look at the numbers, the trader first lost $20,000 but stayed in the market to listen to the noise. Instead of cutting the loss and preserving capital for the next rotation, they added size, resulting in an extra $30,000 loss. The market does not care about your entry price or how much you believe in the project.

How do you decide when a trade is truly dead versus just a temporary pullback?

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