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@soldatxbt even family friendly soldat calls me poor wtf

[V- @RegularJohn18]

@antisemits777 not the content i subbed for

[Warren MUPPET @warren_muppets]

So, here you are too.
In the end, you stayed. Somehow, you failed.

You made mistakes, this was supposed to be your last cycle, your final round, but here you are.
That friend of yours, the one who wouldn’t stop spamming “Solana shitters at 12k” , he doesn’t even read the messages anymore.

Your favorite chat is silent now, like a battlefield after the storm.

Your plans — all of them — shattered to pieces.

For a fleeting moment, it felt as though the earth slipped from under your feet. You even toyed with the thought of ending it all.
And yet, something still holds you here.

You haven’t figured out if it’s addiction — gambling addiction — or some twisted form of resilience.
It can’t be only addiction, you don’t even have money left to gamble.

You talk about finding a job, about finding a better-paying one.
You speak to yourself of redemption, of getting back on track.
But deep down, you know: you’ve betrayed your own expectations, and those of your family.

The only moment of real peace is when you turn off your phone, lay down, and close your eyes.
Everyone sleeps the same way, horizontal, under blankets.

In the dark, we are all equals.

No one is rich in sleep.
If you think about it, for eight hours a day, we are all the same. Cars, watches, suits, nothing matters there.

Then morning comes.

Your mind wakes before you do, and the thoughts start crawling in.
Where did I go wrong? Why did I do it?
You open Twitter.

Someone’s flaunting a win, someone else is on the verge of breaking down.
You feel empty.
Lost.

You think of that influencer who promised you Popcat at 50B, and it never came. What a joke.
Someone swore AI memecoins were the future.
Someone’s sharing Virtual and Fartcoin charts,
Turns out they weren’t.

There’s no way out.

Outside, the sun shines as if nothing happened.
And, strangely, it’s not so bad.
You decide to take a walk, to clear your head.

You start wondering: What if I became normal again?

A simple life;
dinner with family, a bit of Masterchef, bed before midnight.
Maybe that’s not so bad, after all. Maybe that’s doable.

Maybe you can start over.
You try.
You start living this new life.

But like a magnet, something pulls you back.
Without even realizing it, you open Twitter again.

Muppet is posting another losing long,
BasedKarbon is mocking the golden bull run,
Solstice is still chasing the next shitter.

Someone tells you to stop eating carbs, another swears you can cure cancer with supplements.
Everyone has a role in this bizarre theater called CryptoTwitter.

And you?
What’s your role now?
Are you really going to leave like this, like a loser?

You check your bank account.

Yeah, maybe you are. Maybe there’s no other way.
You live a week like a "normal" person.
You taste food again — really taste it.
You read a book without reaching for your phone every ten seconds.
You watch a whole movie, no pauses, no checking charts in between.

It hasn’t happened in years.
And, honestly, it’s not so bad.
Maybe you’ve really quit.

But then, one morning, you wake up.
And out of nowhere, something strikes you, like Saint Paul on the road to Damascus.

You realize something, something so simple, yet so powerful:
You are not a loser. You never were.

Someone on Twitter shares a list of books about trading psychology.
You open Amazon.
Forty dollars.

What’s the worst that could happen?
You buy it.

A few days later, the doorbell rings.

You grab a knife, slice the box open along the tape.
You tear the plastic off the book,
and the scent of fresh pages stirs something inside you,
something you thought was gone.

You open the book, somewhere in the middle, at random.
You stare at a page, lost in the words.

You lift your head.
Turn towards the window.
And in that moment, you understand:

It’s not over.

[V- @RegularJohn18]

@antisemits777 where's the sniff/soldat gay line

[V- @RegularJohn18]

@antisemits777 Not gonna lie dude

I started following for your @ but this is genuinely one of the better contributions you have ever made. I'm going all in, thanks.

[V- @RegularJohn18]

@jimcattu Can you trade freely or ur ass is ilegally vpn’d?

[V- @RegularJohn18]

@diamondhandjs Did the FUD of who owns the hashrate got dispelled or not worried about that?

[V- @RegularJohn18]

@diamondhandjs

[V- @RegularJohn18]

@majinsayan This account has been spreading parody news all day, it's not real brosky, sadly

[Husky @huskyXBT]

"it's all longs"

"no man it was all shorts"

Meanwhile you have access to historical resting bids/asks and open interest for free. On top of that you know that this move down was led by spot selling a retarded amount of coins in no time.

Let's dive in!

1. resting bids getting filled on rising open interest, while spot driving down price. directional exposure is more likely client-long dealer-short. spot selling, perp buying passively.

cvd goes down because, well, the dealer/arb is using market orders to fill the resting bids. if spot is selling off, arb will buy spot, sell perp and later pocket the difference. they are not directionally exposed though, and will just close (sell spot + buy-to-close perp) when price is balanced again

you are concluding that shorts are horny while longs get filled, because you're not watching DOM or heatmap. price corrected you of course.

2. twap on perp that looks like short opening. panic or hedge, I have no idea, but it happens very orderly and gradually, so more likely a hedge.

3. price absorbed the spot seller. panickor or hedgor can unwind. in any case the short was mostly unwound before stage 4.

assumption: 2 + 3 can be as little as an option mm who is short gamma that needs to hedge increasingly negative delta; this is just delta neutral mechanics, not directional exposure. Like I said in 2, the increase (and later decrease) in OI is so orderly and has little impact on price, I'd say it's a likely assumption

4. forever refilling bids held price and pushed it up during illiquid session into resting asks, which were around the same amount as OI that decreased as price moved into it. which were also the same amount as resting bids from (1) and just above their entry price. most reasonable assumption is those early longs closing just above entry here, fueled by some retail weekend shorts.

All data is binance perp, situation is different on hyperliquid or bybit, but since we're looking at specific positioning I don't want aggregated data; you'd have to do this exercise again for each exchange. There is also a lot of noise happening in between these, of course there is some retail bottom shorting and getting rinsed. they are drops in an ocean though

In general I don't think it matters much to watch these flows like a hawk, since you have no idea about what is directional or not. It's still fun to do of course. Even if you are completely wrong, you end up thinking a bit more about the different possibilities of these flows, instead of thinking "OI down CVD down, consulting your trading 101 diagram and concluding that hahaha shorts are entering, we're going so much higher".

I'd say: mark you POI, look at what's happening there specifically, not at flows in between those POI; watch positioning at the extremes and how price moves or doesn't move at those points, that's all you need to do

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[V- @RegularJohn18]

@LTTGXBT @RunnerXBT what about the big coombase premium that was running since friday till' yday

[V- @RegularJohn18]

@DarkCryptoLord E

[V- @RegularJohn18]

@TheFlowHorse

[V- @RegularJohn18]

@iam4x CME not really catching that narrative yet though, pricing in a cut in September now

[DeFi^2 @DefiSquared]

For those still trying to process things, what we just heard at the Bitcoin Conference was ridiculously bullish. Believe there's a high chance price grinds upward from here as longterm flows and slower moving funds begin to price in new political climate.

[V- @RegularJohn18]

@holaivory -2017
-I don't feel shit anymore