Retail investors can't turn things around; no matter how strong the technical analysis is, it's useless. The bottleneck is always the mindset.

When you like a coin and originally expect it to rise three or five times, but it just goes sideways for two or three days, your expectations are halved by yourself. You just want to double your money and then escape. This is the reality.

In fact, a sharp drop isn't as deadly as it seems; what's truly harmful is the slow, lingering erosion. In a bull market, the most nerve-wracking thing isn't a big crash, but the slow, turtle-paced rise, a sudden jerk, then continued crawling—this back-and-forth is most likely to wear out people's patience.

From a high point down to the bottom, many are afraid to buy in; then when it drops a bit more, they think there's no hope. The real issue isn't fear of falling but fear of holding.

Here's the irony:
Being able to hold during a decline doesn't mean you're particularly strong; frankly, it just means you're slow to react and can't cut losses in time.
But if you can keep holding during a rise, that shows true resolve.
The real test of mindset isn't losses but the wave after wave of upward movement—multiplying several times, then multiplying again. The more you earn, the more you want to escape.

Retail investors are afraid of losing money and afraid of making money. A tenfold drop drives them crazy; a tenfold increase makes them even crazier. Once emotions take over, trading becomes unpredictable, and you're just following the main players' rhythm blindly.

The volatility of dozens of times in altcoins isn't a blessing for the chosen ones; it's a pattern. How do the big players play? Long-term manipulation + sudden takeoff—using years of decline and sideways movement to drain retail investors' confidence, wear down their resolve, and cut their long-term expectations. The few tens of dollars' gains that could have been taken are finally squeezed into just a couple of dollars before they run.

When retail investors only dare to chase that small immediate profit and no longer dare to imagine the future, that's when the main players step on the accelerator.

A prolonged decline doesn't mean the market has no potential; it actually reclaims the growth opportunities that should belong to the public. Several rounds of sharp rises aren't a generous gift; they're a reward for those who haven't been worn down.

The real bull market isn't created by rising prices; it's endured through patience.
The market won't hit pause just because someone feels exhausted. Only those who can hold on will be qualified to see the crazy waves that follow.

Most people don't get wiped out by one or two big crashes; they lose everything after a long wait, finally seeing a glimmer of hope but lacking the courage to take another step forward.

To break through the barriers, you need more than luck—you need to choose wisely: the right coin, the right direction, the right ecosystem, the right people.

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