There's no doubt I made a bad trade, but that really isn't the issue. Trying to break the trend line so you can buy at 250k is the issue. I'm just tired of wasting time on TA in markets that move according to the greed of a small number of individuals. So yeah, even if it doesn't go to 299k I'm pretty close to taking my profits while I still have them. Forex was more complicated because of how much has to be considered in the fundamentals, but at least when things happen you can figure out why and the answer isn't "because someone put up a huge buy/sell wall".
Yes, it can be annoying but these whales don't have complete control over the markets, eventually if the underlying trend is strong they get burned and the asset gets redistributed. TA in such small markets should not be relied on heavily IMHO. Get a sense of the overall sentiment of market participants (its quite easy to distinguish the chump FUDsters by looking at their post history), research the fundamentals (developer credibility and aptitude, intrinsic qualities of the assset, the desirability in the current marketplace of those qualities or characteristics and gauge the current value vs. potential value) and be prepared to possibly HODL for a period of time unless your assessment of all the previously mentioned things was flawless.
Its a fact that most people make terrible traders because of their inability to govern their emotions, me included, although with practice and financial loses (you can call them lessons) I am getting better.