Sometimes I really think that how much you make in trading mostly comes down to luck.

Take $franklin on Pump, for example. I entered when the market cap was $90,000. At the time, it was getting a lot of attention and the chart looked interesting, so I thought it could take off. But after holding for a few hours, not only did it not go up, I ended up getting bagged.

I started wondering if my judgment was off. The hype was clearly there, so why wasn’t it pumping? Maybe most people didn’t see it the way I did, or maybe it was just me thinking it had potential.

Later, it skyrocketed to an $18 million market cap. That’s a 200x increase. But by then, I had already cut my losses and left.

That’s reality—sometimes you can see the opportunity, but whether you can actually profit from it depends on whether you can hold on and whether the market is willing to cooperate with you.