Everyone talks about crashes because they're dramatic. The harder part for me has always been the dead periods, when prices move sideways, social feeds get repetitive and every thesis starts to feel stale.
That is when bad decisions become tempting. You start checking coins you ignored before. You start believing that maybe the thing pumping today has some special information behind it. You start confusing boredom with risk management.
The lesson I learned the expensive way is that boredom is one of the market’s best traps. A red candle scares you into action, but a dull month slowly talks you into doing something stupid.
Now I try to decide my plan before the boredom arrives. If I am holding something, I want to know why. If I am rotating, I want a reason stronger than "this chart moved and mine did not."
How do you keep yourself from overtrading when the market gets boring?