Following the footprints of The Operator.
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I think the bottom will not be a marked by a chart pattern but the silence of unplugged ASICs.
Math is broken and soon the mega-farms will be forced to surrender to creditors, market-nuking their $BTC to survive. That violent supply dump will mark the bottom.
Many strategies work when you're not in the trade...
The only test that matters is the one where real money is on the line and you haven't slept properly in two days.
The trading community will tell you what to buy, when to buy it, why you're wrong for not buying it and why it's not their fault when it dumps...
Trade your own analysis, lose your own money.
At least the lessons will stick...
I think the bottom will not be a marked by a chart pattern but the silence of unplugged ASICs.
Math is broken and soon the mega-farms will be forced to surrender to creditors, market-nuking their $BTC to survive. That violent supply dump will mark the bottom.
The Euro Area currently represents 16.6% of US total foreign trade yet the Euro is by far the largest component in DXY with 57.6% weight.
Instead of trying to derive a narrative from DXY, I'd rather watch the FRED broad index (DTWEXBGS). It's basically the thing DXY is supposed to represent, without the Euro-skew
A losing streak doesn't mean your strategy is broken - market regime might have changed.
Ask yourself; 'Is my edge gone or is the market just not giving setups right now?'
Those are very different problems with very different solutions.
"Price action is king" is the most expensive sentence in trading.
Price is the receipt, not the transaction - it tells you what was paid, no who was desperate, who was patient or who quietly ran out of size.
Volume does.
Adding too many indicators to charts is seeking psychological validation rather than market insight.
Instead of seeking 'permission' to enter/exit a trade, focus on mastering order flow.
The market provides data - the goal is to learn how to interpret it objectively.
Wyckoff didn't invent a system. He described human nature under financial pressure.
Accumulation and distribution are the inevitable processes required by large capital to be able to absorb available supply or strategically offload their size.
That was true in 1910.
It's true in 2026.
It will be true in 2050.
As miners shut down, the Bitcoin network difficulty drops, which in turn increases the profit margins for other miners. Because no one wants to give their competitors an edge, miners refuse to turn off their machines.
Instead of an orderly exit, they operate at a loss - burning through their treasuries and take on fiat debt to pay for costs, hoping price recovers or someone else gives up first. This is the compression of the spring—financial stress is compounding behind the scenes.
When the capital dries up, shutting down is no longer an option and they go bankrupt. This forces involuntary capitulation where massive amounts of BTC and hardware are dumped on the market - all at once to pay off creditors - releasing all that pent-up tension in a brutal price crash.
I think the bottom will not be a marked by a chart pattern but the silence of unplugged ASICs.
Math is broken and soon the mega-farms will be forced to surrender to creditors, market-nuking their $BTC to survive. That violent supply dump will mark the bottom.
People seem too eager to catch a falling knife.
This is not how an actual bottom feels like!
Remember the 2022 slaughter - when $BTC was at $16k, everyone here was convinced it was over. No buyers - total misery...
We are nowhere near that level of terror.
@benjamincowen@ITCConf If I were you, I wouldn't even bother with any of those guys. I'd focus on bringing @LynAldenContact onboard instead.
With just you and Lyn, it could've been a historic conference—no filler needed.