Honored to get a mention on CNBC, thanks @APompliano. You've done as much as anyone to bring Bitcoin into mainstream financial conversations, grateful to be part of it.
Let me tell you the truth.
I’ve been in these markets for over twenty years, and when I rewind the tape, the chart was never the real opponent.
In the early years, I hunted for the magic thing, an indicator, a pattern, a perfect entry. I could recite technicals in my sleep. Still, the same script kept playing: chase the move, hold the loser, cut the winner. Every decision felt right in the moment, and every “right” feeling cost me money. It took me a long time to see why: emotions in trading aren’t random. They’re the echo of your beliefs, the story you tell yourself about what a single trade means.
Once we add meaning, the feeling follows. First time you drive a car, your hands shake; but after a while, you don’t think about it...the same road, a different you.
My worst stretches came when I treated trading like a win-loss game. One red candle felt like a verdict. When a single loss carries that much significance, you size too big, you rush, you improvise. That’s not a market problem; that’s a preparation problem. This game pays the traders who accept it’s a probability business and design their behavior accordingly.
That’s when I realized: the edge isn’t predicting price, it’s knowing yourself. And a good system is how you operationalize that self-knowledge every single day.
People love to say the market is rigged. Well, it's not. It’s deceptive, that's for sure, but mostly it reflects on you. If you feel like you’re battling some shadowy villain, understand the machine on the other side already knows your habits; when you chase, when you freeze, when you size up to “make it back.” You won’t beat that machine with vibes and bravado. You beat it by removing the buttons you press when you’re emotional.
In the end, the breakthrough wasn’t loud. It was boring in the best way. Fewer guesses. More rules. Less drama. More outcomes I can live with. Know yourself, build the guardrails, and let discipline do the heavy lifting.
To those that keep calling for ALT Season:
In order for ALT Season to happen, ETH needs to go to $5k+ and hold it as support.
For ETH to go to $5k *AND* hold it as support, it means BTC needs to also go to all time highs.
The process of BTC going to all time highs would make BTC dominance go higher, just like it has all cycle.
So the only way to get an "ALT Season" is for BTC.D to first go up as BTC goes to new highs.
If that does not happen, then ALT Season does not happen.
So while the gurus sit out here and yap about BTC.D dropping now and they shill their shitcoins once again, just remember in order to get what they want, they first have to be wrong.
AGAIN.
Altcoin conviction is building.
Open interest across top tokens has climbed to a record $47B, fueled by pronounced price action in $ETH.
While $BTC options remain priced for calm, surging alt activity suggests traders are positioning for bigger moves ahead.