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$PIPPIN
This morning I thought I caught the perfect setup
PIPPIN looked exhausted
volume was fading
and the chart was breathing like a runner losing steam at the last hill.
I opened my short with 12,459 PIPPIN at 0.1625, telling myself
this time the market would finally break.

But the market didn’t break
it broke me.

Within minutes the candles flipped
green stacked on green
and my liquidation line came closer than heartbeat distance
until eventually it snapped
position gone
–224.21 USDT
–110.7 percent
a clean execution by the market.

What stung wasn’t the number
it was the feeling of watching a trade I believed in
turn into a lesson faster than I could breathe.
If I had waited
if I had sized lighter
if I had respected the trend
I would still be standing with a clear chart instead of blurred regret.

But that’s trading
some days you attack
some days the market teaches you humility.
I close the chart
not to run
but to remind myself
that every loss still sharpens the one who refuses to stop.