The Cost of Missing Out In the crypto market, the cost of missing out goes far beyond "unearned profits." It's a combination of implicit and explicit costs resulting from the accumulation of opportunity loss, distorted mindset, and strategy failure. 1. Direct Opportunity Cost: Missing out on the profit potential of a stock's main upward trend, especially for assets like ORDI with clean fundamentals and a solid narrative, where a single trend's gains can far exceed the returns of multiple short-term trades. Chasing the price higher after missing out carries the risk of high drawdowns. 2. Mindset Cost: Missing out can easily lead to a vicious cycle of "fear of further gains leading to chasing higher prices, and fear of pullbacks leading to cutting losses," transforming rational holding into emotional trading, and even disrupting original position planning and risk management rules. 3. Strategy Inertia Cost: If missing out leads to rejecting one's trading system and blindly following trends, long-term strategy failure will occur. Maintaining consistency in similar market conditions later becomes even more difficult, creating a negative feedback loop of "missing out—chaotic trading—missing out again." For assets like ORDI that are strongly tied to Bitcoin, the cost of missing out is amplified—its rise often coincides with Bitcoin cycles and loose liquidity, and once the starting point is missed, it is difficult to find a cost-effective entry point.