Had my biggest W since February yesterday. +40% from REI. That single trade will pay for HALF my wedding. Then got absolutely REKT on LAUNCHCOIN today, with a -42%. Same position size. Still net positive from both trades, but dang does the loss sting. I entered LAUNCHCOIN at $20 when my own entry criteria said $17. So when it retraced to $17, I held because "this is where I should've entered anyway." When it crashed to $13, my entire thesis was invalidated. Would I still have entered at $17? Yes. Would I still have lost money? Yes, but less. I missed the connection between PumpFun's suspension and how it might IMPLY a launchpad crackdown, affecting LAUNCHOIN's chart. I didn't put the dots together. I would've lost either way. This is a brutal reminder: > 1, 2, or 3 trades are just random noise. Your edge only reveals itself after 100+ trades when the law of averages kicks in. > Your only job is to survive long enough to get that data. > Losing trades ALWAYS hurt, especially when it's a non-trivial amount of IRL money. > Winning trades offset the pain, but they don't eliminate it. The market doesn't give a fuck about your wedding plans. It just IS. And that's the game we chose to play. So we keep going. We keep learning. We keep surviving. Because in the end, surviving long enough to solidify your edge is what matters.