That feeling you all know well—confidently bottom-fishing a new project, only to find yourself buying at a moment of liquidity exhaustion. Especially when you try to front-run a quick surge, suddenly realizing it might be a carefully crafted trap: early buyers are already shorting, and then a carpet dump hits. The price plummets instantly, turning your position from profit to loss. The most ironic part is that those shorting will come and ask why you're still holding on. That's just how the market is—what seems like a smart decision a minute ago can turn into a textbook mistake in the next second. This is also why traders always emphasize that liquidity depth and the true intentions of counterparties are often more important than price signals themselves.