So you think that 5% dip counts as a correction?

Let me give you a helpful hint..

We’re not in a correction until the sweat falling down your neck meets the sweat of your ass crack in a pool on your desk chair while your sitting up at 3am staring at a stamp chart 3 inches from your face trying to convince yourself thats its going to reverse any second now. Your hand shaking like a Parkinson’s patient over an oily mouse when suddenly you feel the dire need to take a shit but you vomit in your mouth a little bit instead and before you have time to question how those two bodily functions could possibly be related we’ve already dropped another 20%. You’ve now got a big red dildo candle showing a 60% loss in a matter of minutes staring back at you as price has dipped far below your buy in spot, all the profits you made over the past several weeks, dreams of that new car, that new house disappear in an instant and you cant imagine what possibly could have caused this.

You default to erroneously blaming the Chinese but that doesn’t quite add up so you take to twitter with panicked breath searching for anyone, anything that might have the answer as to what the F is happening. Of course no one has any more of a clue then you do so you immediately start to internalize the struggle. What starts as a whisper of “why didn’t I just sell” turns into a rampage scream in the back of your mind, after all its so obvious that this was the top, it’s so clear now looking back, of course that was the top how the hell didn’t I see that 15 minutes ago? Meanwhile we’re down another 5% and you just can’t take it anymore. Tears are rushing from your eyes, something that looks like dried blood is all over your arm emanating from the spot you didn’t realize you were subconsciously digging your fingernail into. You close your eyes just for a moment but when they reopen you realize you’ve somehow already logged into your Coinbase account and punched in a sell order. Thats it. You sold. Your devastated, but manage to breathe a small sigh of relief. Well at least i can’t lose anymore you say, at least i walked away with something. Your emotionally and physically exhausted now but you manage to drag yourself across the room, you fall flat on your bed with one final thought passing through your mind before you let the darkness overtake you…”why didn’t i just sell the top?”

In the morning you wake to the realization that you slept fully clothed and at an odd enough angle that your neck is surely going to feel exactly as bad if not worse for the rest of the day. The events of the previous night come back to you in a flurry of blurred emotions and while you almost can’t bring yourself to check the price you just have to know. How much lower did it go? After all, there is still a glimmer of a hope, you think well, perhaps it isn’t all bad, perhaps I can buy back in a bit lower and make the losses back in the long term. You begrudgingly open a chart and whatever small amount of hope that remained escapes your lungs before the sigh hits your lips. Price has fully recovered, it’s actually trading up 10% from yesterdays highs…

Thats a correction.

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