What You Expect vs What Actually Happens

Enter the market thinking this will be different—you've got a strategy, you've got discipline. Charts look promising, fundamentals check out, risk management is solid. This time feels different.

Then reality hits. That support level breaks on a random Tuesday. Your entry gets liquidated during a flash crash nobody saw coming. Meanwhile, the coin you sold last week just pumped 40%.

The gap between trading expectation and reality? It's where most traders learn expensive lessons. You plan for textbook setups, but the market doesn't read the same books. Emotions kick in when your position is red. FOMO takes over when you're standing on the sidelines. That "disciplined exit" becomes a desperate hold.

The successful traders aren't the ones with perfect predictions—they're the ones who expect the chaos, plan for it, and stick to their rules anyway. Because in crypto markets, the only certainty is that something will go differently than you imagined.