It's Sunday. Just want to re emphasise this, on how to think long term during dead weeks Dead weeks mess with your perception. nothing moves, so you feel like time is being wasted. But long term thinking isn’t about activity. it’s about positioning and preservation. Zoom out to weekly and monthly. ask yourself what actually changed. most of the time, the answer is nothing. Use these weeks to clean up process. review past trades. refine levels. adjust expectations. Long term outcomes are decided by how you behave when there’s no excitement. not when candles are flying. if you can stay patient here, you’ll be ready when momentum returns.

Btc with that candle to 89.5k. first leg of this move was mainly shorts getting squeezed. forced covering once stops got hit. second part had real buyers stepping in after price cleared local overhead. volume confirms that. unless we reclaim and hold 90.5k, this feels more like an extended liquidity grab than a clean reversal. expect more sweeps. both sides. stay nimble.

If market closes like this with bullish engulfing candle, that will be bullish short term. Down side is we are entering into a weekend with that.

Remember conviction isn’t formed when price is going up. that’s just confirmation. real conviction is built when price goes against you and you don’t panic. drawdowns force you to confront your reasoning. why you entered. what would invalidate it. whether you actually believe in the bigger picture. most people only want conviction after price proves them right. by then, risk is already higher. sitting through drawdowns teaches patience, sizing, and restraint. it hardens decision making. when the next expansion comes, you’re not chasing. you’re positioned. that’s how conviction is earned.

Another question popped out, and basically it's why you have to be comfortable being wrong first most people think good traders are right often. that’s not true. good traders are wrong early, then right later. markets don’t reward perfect timing. they reward correct direction with patience. you enter where risk makes sense, not where certainty exists. that means price can move against you first. that discomfort is normal. necessary, even. every major move looks wrong at the start. breakouts retest. bottoms chop. accumulation feels like dead money. if you only want to be right immediately, you end up chasing. buying strength late. selling weakness late. being wrong initially tests conviction. being right eventually rewards it. this is why sizing matters. small enough to survive the doubt. large enough to matter when you’re right. the goal isn’t to avoid being wrong. it’s to stay positioned long enough for the market to agree with you. most people exit right before that happens.