being perfect is LOSING you money in trading | 👉 follow @theartofcrypto daily trade calls

19 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this video, The Art Of Crypto explains that traders don’t need to achieve a perfect, early entry to profit. He emphasizes placing orders with stop‑losses and riding momentum, noting that price moves aggressively and offers many entry points. The core advice is to enter a trade at any point during a confirmed trend rather than trying to predict the market early. Waiting for full trend confirmation reduces the likelihood of being stopped out, leading to better overall results.

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It's not too late for me to just kind of place an order here, place a stop loss here, and just, you know, continue just riding the momentum. And that's another thing that you need to understand about trading. You do not need to get the first entry. Heck, you don't even need to be early most of the time in trading. If you think about it, price moves quite aggressively, right? And there are plenty of opportunities. Now, here's what you need to understand, right? If the market goes from here to here, it doesn't matter if you get in at here, at here, at here, at here, right? As long as you get in at some point during the trend and A lot of the times getting in later, right? Meaning getting in after you have full confirmation of the trend tends to yield you better results because, well, you now have trend confirmation, right? You're not gonna get stopped out as many times because you were kind of preemptively predicting what the market was gonna do and jumping in early.