December 18th, Day 48. Account funds are 370U, up from 350U at the beginning of the month.

Last night, I took a short position on FART, with my stop-loss set at 0.359 at the double top level. I was feeling pretty confident at the time, thinking the market would break through the four-hour moving average congestion zone, and it looked like it was going to drop to 0.3, so this trade seemed solid. But what happened? The coin suddenly shot up to 0.3595, and my stop-loss was forcibly triggered—just 0.05 points away. Even more frustrating, right after that, there was a 20-point plunge, completely invalidating all my signals to exit.

I wanted to add to my short position, but my mind was already in chaos—afraid of making another mistake, so I didn’t open any new trades.

Later, BTC started moving, and I couldn’t hold back—once I opened a short, it surged. I gritted my teeth and held on for a while, waiting for the decline, made some profit, and then closed the position to cut losses.

Looking at my entire day’s trading record, I wasted all my golden shorting opportunities. I was so afraid of hitting the stop-loss that I didn’t dare to move it after being triggered by just 0.05 points, then I retaliated by trying to buy the dip on AAVE, only to barely make 1U the next day before closing out in a panic.

In summary, I only lost 10U after a series of trades, and I should be grateful I stopped in time without making bigger mistakes. The biggest lesson is: the stop-loss setup is fine, but the real issue is my psychological resilience during execution. After being stopped out once, I started doubting myself, and then I impulsively opened new trades out of frustration—that’s the real killer.

Feeling a bit dizzy, need to take a breather.