You need to position yourself with meaningful size—the kind of bet that stings if you can't accumulate more. That's the reality most retail traders won't admit. For every one person actually playing serious, there's dozens who threw five hundred bucks at a 20k market cap and think they're genius when it pumps to 80k. They dump the entire stack and vanish. That's not investing, that's lottery ticket behavior.

The brutal part? Your conviction doesn't save you if the narrative falls apart. You can have the perfect entry, the perfect timing, but if the project's story doesn't hold up—if there's no real reason for people to keep believing—you're fighting gravity. The best position in the world gets crushed when the narrative collapses. Which is why you can't just chase shitcoins. You need something with legs, something with an actual story that can survive market cycles.