Always waiting for BTC to drop to $40K, the stock market to fall 20%, gold to hit $3,500? I'll be honest—I used to do the same thing. Always wanted to use a god's-eye view to catch the absolute bottom with precision, as if the market owed everyone a perfect pullback.

But here's the cruelest truth about investing: profit is precisely the compensation for uncertainty.

If you insist on waiting until all risks are cleared and prices fall to some so-called absolutely safe zone, what you've actually caught isn't the bottom—it's the beginning of another abyss.