Trader Confession #18: I Tried to Time the Market… And Got Outperformed by a Hodler
I had a plan:
Buy low, sell high, re-buy lower.
Easy, right? I’m a genius. 😎
So I bought WCT at $0.40.
Sold at $0.75 (big win!).
Waited for the dip…
WCT dipped to $0.59.
But I got greedy.
“What if it goes to $0.50? I’ll buy more!”
It didn’t.
It went back to $0.70 without me.
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Meanwhile, my friend who said:
“I’ll just hold and forget it”
…is now up +75%
No stress. No regrets. No missed entries.
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What I learned:
| Timing the market | Sounds smart, feels clever
| Holding patiently | Looks boring… but beats 90% of traders
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Final takeaway?
“Sometimes the smartest trade
is just not trading at all.”
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Tag a friend who always sells too early.
Or too late.
Or both. 😅