🚫 The Trade I Regret the Most – Don’t Make My Mistake! 💸
We all have that one trade that stings, even after we recover. For me, it was $SOL at $245 — a painful lesson I’ll never forget. Here's how I got wrecked, what I learned, and how you can avoid making the same mistake.
📉 The Setup: FOMO Took Over
It was peak euphoria. $SOL was unstoppable, breaking new highs daily.
Everyone was calling it the next Ethereum, and I kept waiting for a dip that never came.
At $245, I finally caved in.
"This is going straight to $1000," I told myself.
💀 The Crash: Reality Hits Hard
Days later, the market turned. Bitcoin dumped, and Solana followed:
$200... $150... $100... before I knew it, $SOL hit $8.
Here’s the painful part:
I didn't sell at $200. Not at $100. Not even at $50.
Why?
Not because I believed in $SOL — it’s hard to believe in any coin when it’s down 95%.
I held because the loss already felt "gone." Selling didn’t seem to matter anymore.
🛑 Lessons Learned (So You Don’t Get Burned)
✅ Never Buy During Extreme Hype: If everyone is screaming bullish targets, it’s probably time to sell, not buy.
✅ Set Stop-Losses: Have a plan for when to sell. Don’t hold blindly through freefalls.
✅ Market Cycles Take Time: $SOL recovered, but it took years. Had I sold at $200+ and re-entered at $10-$20, I could’ve 10x’d my portfolio.
🔧 How I Trade Now
🔥 Buy Dips & Scale Slowly: No more FOMO buys.
🔥 Take Profits on Parabolic Moves: Even when I believe there’s more upside.
💭 What’s the one trade you regret the most?
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