The brutal truth about bottom fishing: Why do you always buy halfway up the mountain? 1. What you think is the floor, there's a basement below it, and beneath the basement, there are eighteen levels of hell. 2. Don’t look for gold in a pile of trash. 3. Never bottom fish for assets with poor fundamentals. 4. The essence of the bottom is to trap retail investors, not to help them build positions. 5. No one can buy at the absolute bottom; buying at the lowest point is luck, not skill. 6. The core mindset for bottom fishing is just one: be prepared to get stuck and endure the slow pain of being cut. 7. If you don’t want to get stuck, don’t bottom fish. 8. Why should you be the one making money? Because while others panic when trapped, you can hold onto your chips through the agony