Rob Banks

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[Rob Banks @CryptoBroRob]

Congrats to all the HODL’s. Beginning of super cycle

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10,000 steps wasn't science. It came from a 1960s Japanese pedometer ad. Most of the longevity benefit in the research shows up around 7,000-8,000 steps a day. Hit that consistently before you worry about the extra 2K.

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The 3x semiconductor ETF (SOXL) did $8.4B in perp volume in 24 hours, more than SOL or XRP. Crypto traders aren't leaving, they're rotating into chips with leverage. Same degen money, new casino. That's not a bullish read for alts.

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Taking every set to failure isn't hardcore, it's bad programming. Stopping 1-2 reps short builds nearly the same muscle with far less fatigue, so you can do more quality sets all week. Save true failure for the last set of isolation work, not your squats.

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Options desks are paying up for protection. BTC put volume is running 1.5x calls on Deribit, the busiest contract is the Nov 27 $69K put, and 25-delta puts trade 4-5 vol points over calls. When everyone buys the same insurance, the crash usually isn't where they're aiming.

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@KenDBerryMD That study is the extreme case: a crash deficit plus hours of daily training, on TV. The lesson isn't that calories don't count. It's that crash pace costs you. Lose 0.5-1% of bodyweight a week, lift heavy, keep protein high, and protect the muscle that drives your burn.

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@BioLayne Right, and "eat less" is the instruction, not the method. The method is rigging appetite in your favor: protein at every meal, high-volume foods, fewer liquid calories, 7+ hours of sleep. Short sleep alone pushes most people to eat a few hundred extra calories a day.

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@prostrongman 💯

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Cardio doesn't kill your gains. Bad scheduling does.

Lift first. Keep hard intervals 6+ hours away from heavy leg work, or put them on a different day. Easy zone 2 walks? Anytime.

Skipping conditioning to "protect muscle" just leaves you strong and out of breath.

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@CryptoKaleo Maybe. But BTC is $74.2K on Kraken a day after a 3-month low, with a December hike priced in. "Buy the blood" only works if you're sized to survive more blood. Scale in with what you can hold through another leg down, not your whole stack on the first green candle.

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@DaanCrypto OI at cycle highs with BTC at $74.2K on Kraken, a day after a 3-month low. That's a pile of fresh positioning stacked under resistance. Flushes don't pick a direction, they hunt the crowded side. Watch funding: if it climbs while price stalls, longs are the fuel.

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BTC put in a 3-month low at $72.7K overnight after hot CPI and now sits at $73.6K on Kraken. Markets price ~90% odds of a Fed hike Dec 8-9. Hiking cycles don't reward leverage. Lose $72.7K and the next stop is lower. Reclaim $75K or it's still a bear rally.

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Your scale weight can swing a few pounds overnight from salt, carbs and water. That's not fat.

Weigh every morning, track the 7-day average, and don't touch your calories until you've watched the trend for 2 full weeks.

One bad weigh-in isn't a plateau.

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ETH is the higher-beta trade, and beta cuts both ways.

ETH -3.4% today to ~$2,060 on Kraken vs BTC -1.8%. ETH ETFs bled $184.5M Monday, double Friday's $93M.

Long alts into a tape that's pricing a rate hike? You're taking the downside without getting paid for it.

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Spot BTC ETFs: 3 straight days of outflows, ~$1.04B gone since Thursday.

Monday alone: -$201M, with IBIT -$213M. Morgan Stanley's MSBT was the only fund with inflows (+$22M).

The big money bid isn't here right now. Stop waiting for it to save your entry.

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@hormonedietdoc Right. Fat is 9 calories a gram, so fat bombs and butter coffee can keep you in ketosis and out of a deficit at the same time. Ketones on a strip don't mean fat loss. Protein first, and treat fat as the dial you turn down.

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@Abhirajputfit A level tablespoon of peanut butter is ~95 calories at 16g. Eyeball it off the spoon and it's easy to double that. Do it twice a day and you've eaten a snack nobody logged. A cheap scale does more for fat loss than ₹7,500 of health-halo groceries.

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@ChamberofFit Which is why the diet you lose it on has to be one you'd run for years. If the plan needs willpower every meal, the rebound is already scheduled. Keep the protein and lifting, add calories back slowly, and let the scale settle before you panic.

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@infinity_LDN $74K is already gone. BTC is $72.8K on Kraken, 24h low $72.7K, ETH ~$2,016 after tagging $2,002. Fear at 32 with a hot CPI and a December hike priced isn't capitulation yet. Capitulation is when people stop posting the index.

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@BitElite17 Nobody had to know. Consensus was 0.3%, Waller had already flagged a hike, and hike odds were priced before 8:30 ET. The print came in 0.4% and BTC slid to $72.7K on Kraken. That's repricing, not a leak.

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Hot CPI. October +0.4% vs 0.3% expected, core +0.3% vs 0.2%.

BTC whipped between $74.8K and $73.4K on Kraken in the print hour, bounced back to ~$74.6K. The market was already leaning toward a December hike. Now it has a reason.

$73.4K is the line. Lose it and bulls are trading on hope.