How did you "know"?
Well, I mean of course I didn't "know" but I felt it very strongly. I work with servers so I am surrounded by monitors at work and home. I watch these markets a lot. I felt I had a good grasp on what was happening when I was in the middle of it. Then I made decisions contrary to my instinct and watched what I could have had evaporate.
The zen of shitcoin trading I guess.
Yeah I know ... but the key there is you did not
really know at all you just tell yourself that afterwards..if you did know, you would have pulled the trade - if it would have shot to $5 a coin you would have told yourself "you knew not to sell" don't worry you are not alone in the world of trading there. A partial solution I guess is to have set goals and targets in place, to cover the most likely scenarios, a pre set plan that can adapt to whatever happens (to a degree) and fix in some profit if x scenario pays out... I am around screens and charts all the time to but still I like to have the plans/orders in place, so I do not have to make a decision on the heel with no thought..
I have geeky spreadsheets that show me excatly what I would net in BTC and $ at x price at x quantity.. so that at any point for any reason I know my liquidation value.
Also your initial instinct may well prove to be correct - it is very very early days, there is a lot more to come from this project.