The Most Expensive Word in Crypto Is “Almost”

The trade almost hit take profit.
I was short. Structure was clean. Momentum was fading. Everything aligned. Price moved perfectly in my direction and came within a few dollars of my target.
I didn’t close early.
I didn’t trail.
I wanted the full move.
Then it reversed.
Not violently. Just enough to take back most of the unrealized gain. I held, hoping it would roll over again. It didn’t. I closed near breakeven.
And the worst part?
I wasn’t mad at the market.
I was mad at myself for being greedy — but disguising it as discipline.
That’s when I realized something uncomfortable.
“Almost” is where most of the emotional damage happens in crypto.
Almost right.
Almost profitable.
Almost caught the bottom.
Almost held the top.
Those almosts stick with you. They distort your next decision. They make you move stops too quickly. Or hold too long. Or chase the next move to compensate.
Crypto is full of near-misses.
And if you don’t manage your reaction to them, they control your behavior more than actual losses do.
That trade forced me to change how I manage exits.
Not emotionally. Structurally.
I started asking:
Has structure shifted? Has momentum changed? Is the trade still valid?
If yes, I hold. If no, I reduce.
Not because of how close price is to target — but because of what the market is actually doing.
The market doesn’t care how close you were.
It only rewards alignment.
Since then, I’ve accepted something simple:
You will almost catch perfect trades. You will almost nail tops. You will almost hold the entire move.
And that’s fine.
Consistency doesn’t come from perfection. It comes from controlled decisions after imperfection.
If “almost” has ever messed with your head after a trade, you know the feeling.
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