There’s a strange kind of relief that comes when your altcoins and meme coins go back to your entry price. It’s not joy, it’s not success — it’s survival.
Crypto traders know the feeling too well. You ape into a meme coin or a low-cap altcoin with dreams of riding the next 100x rocket. You watched the charts, followed the hype, believed in the memes. And for a fleeting moment, it looked like it was working. Green candles, bullish tweets, maybe even a few celebratory screenshots. But then the market did what it always does — humbled you.
Days turn to weeks, sometimes months, of watching your portfolio bleed. You refresh your wallet obsessively, clinging to hopium while the token loses volume, momentum, and every bit of attention it once had. The group chat goes silent. The devs vanish. The memes stop being funny.
And then, one day, against all odds, the chart crawls back. Slowly. Quietly. No hype. No FOMO. Just a tired, scarred candle climbing its way back to your buy price. You’re not even excited anymore. You just want to get out.
You tell yourself: “I don’t even need profit. Just give me back my entry.” And when you finally see that familiar number — your original investment, not a dollar more — you click “sell” with the steady hand of someone who has learned their lesson. Not the lesson of market timing or better research. No, the lesson that sometimes, walking away with zero gains is still a win.
Crypto is full of promises. Some are real, most are just noise. Altcoins and meme coins don’t care about your dreams. They’ll pump you up and drop you harder than gravity itself. So when the market, by some act of mercy, gives you your entry back, it feels like a second chance.
You didn’t lose. You survived. And in this game, that counts for a lot.