Time to start sharing trades and (current) market thoughts again. Won’t always be right.. but if people can undisclosed shill shit liquidity memecoins under the guise of “helping” people, I guess I can try to provide some form of value in return. We’re so back.

"Wait for better conditions." "Things will get better." "Remember how things were in 2024?" Volume has been 2x-4x the volume of 2024 for practically 2 years and conditions have continued to get worse and worse each month. What does this tell us? It does not matter if "conditions improve" because the extraction machine just cranks up even more to negate the benefits that come from the extra volume. "WHY FUD BIZZY???" "BOTTOM SIGNAL BIZZY" No, I love this space but I hate what its become and we can keep acting like things will magically get better but that is not how it works. Things are not what they used to be. In past cycles bear markets are when the scammers disappeared, the real remained, things were dead but opportunities were easy to spot. This bear market the scammers became the celebrities, the extraction machine became more efficient, opportunities disappeared, the gamblers remained, things seemed alive but opportunities were all a mirage. Without change how can things improve? It can't because the problem is not the same as it was in the past. In the past the market would die because the volume disappeared. Now its dead because the volume is systematically churned and siphoned into the pockets of platforms, deployers, farmers and scammers. This is why I think its important to be real and hopefully open peoples eyes so that we can actually change rather than be a blind optimist.

Would really enjoy it if we could not spend too much time here but given holidays and Q4.... Going to assume it's chop-suey conditions on Bitcoin for a month or two. With that assumption, I wouldn't take any hail mary 100% move shitcoin setups. Mostly intraday or intraweek, doesn't make sense to stay exposed for long durations during chop conditions. Not good for the mental to watch uPnL pivot between green and red.

I understand that fading Salsa tweets was a meme but the hit rate is immaculate.

Either we’re so back or the variance is reverting to the mean and Salsa will be so right that everything basically goes to zero

The cycle with no sustained outliers or runners because the field is littered with scammers, ruggers and KOLs who’ve managed to convince themselves that manipulating and extracting from their fellow man is part of the game. Villains and criminals.

Loma shares the rules he follows before entering a new trade after a losing streak. "Whenever I get stopped out of multiple positions at a time, I almost always take a break, because that usually means the trend is in danger. I’ll take two or three or four days before I enter another trade. It usually will hover there for a couple of days, or it will continue to rapidly fall and eat shit. If one in ten trend breaks leads to a V reversal, then I only miss the move one in ten times. That means nine out of ten times I prevent myself from eating a massive loss, and I can just get in where I got stopped out." Feat. @Tradermayne & @LomahCrypto

everyone I know in crypto who has a conscience and actually cares about how they make money beyond just maximizing profits by any means necessary, (farming, scamming, bundling, rinsing their followers on vaporware, etc) is getting pretty jaded with crypto rn. and honestly, how can you not? this place has turned into a fucking cesspit of degeneracy where crime is literally applauded. every day, some frotnite faggot is flexing a 6fig bundle extraction pnl and getting praised like he accomplished something worth celebrating. pure speculation was fine when it was just one part of crypto, but now it’s pretty much all there is, and it fucking sucks.

This is burnout, and if you want to survive as a trader, you must learn to recognize it. True burnout is not just being overworked, nor is it something you can push through. It is a feedback loop that occurs when your body experiences intense, prolonged stress. Stress is part of life, and under normal conditions you can recover from it easily. In fact, many dimensions of human performance - strength, endurance, mental acuity - actually require stress in order to grow. However, growth in response to stress can only happen when the stress is manageable and offset by periods of recovery. When the stress is extreme and constant, the body fails to adapt and enters a downward spiral. As stress accumulates, several things happen physiologically: - sleep is disrupted - hormones become dysregulated - mental performance degrades - heart rate variability falls - inflammation rises and immune function declines The problem is that each of these effects also *reduces your ability to withstand and recover from stress.* So you enter a vicious cycle where recovery becomes impossible and performance steadily deteriorates. The experience @agapestride describes here is exactly what it feels like to burn out from trading. And if you find yourself in this situation, the most important thing you can do is *recognize what has happened.* You are not dumber than you used to be. You are not more indecisive. You are not more impulsive, fearful, or greedy. You are simply physiologically impaired by severe, chronic stress. When you notice the signs of burnout, you must prioritize recovery above all else: - cut your risk - stop looking at charts - get off social media - play sports or start running - spend time with friends and family - go hiking or traveling - take lots of hot baths As much as it feels like the best time to make generational wealth is RIGHT NOW, the market will always be here. So take a break and don't come back until you know your body can handle it.

Most traders never reach consistent profitability. In our new interview @LomahCrypto breaks down: • The moment everything clicked • How he manages risk • The habits that separate elite traders from everyone else Watch here: piped.video/watch?v=hg8CXH6H…

Inevitable cleansing. Too many products competing for the same liquidity. Chains are a little easier to observe but you can extrapolate this to most alts as well. That 50th crypto casino or launchpad likely faces a similar fate.

Working a theory that bull market price action has changed in nature, from the previous cycles, because we’ve introduced a large amount of new participants while the older ones have retired or moved onto something else. The crypto cycles you knew, no longer exist.

People are way too comfortable buying plastic-ridden filler peptides sourced from some apocalyptic factory in Shenzhen that's inevitably going to send them straight into the 8D mesoamerican jigsaw puzzle realm that is their brain

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Current class of trenchers suck. Nobody actually puts in any real meaningful effort. Majority of the effort is to track wallets and see what other KOL's are buying before they tweet about it. They just sit around waiting to be spoon-fed the next ticker. A generation of domesticated dogs that forgot they came from wolves.

My best play this cycle was investing in Backpack last cycle. My worst play was investing in the other 100 projects that never delivered…

Ref links are some of the least egregious forms of monetization possible. You save on fees. Your community saves on fees. You get a cut of the saved fees. The exchange benefits in volume by incentivizing you with the above. Stop caring about stupid people's opinions (including mine).