Zik Capital

Relentless

NFA/DYOR

[Mayne @Tradermayne]

I’m plotting on your rise bro.

I’m literally up in the lab scheming on beautiful abundance for you.

I’m cooking up ways for a rising tide to lift all our boats.

I’m praying for your gains.

I’m lighting a candle to your inevitable splendour dude.

[Trader Tim @Tradertim]

$BTC

I've seen alot of arguments that the red line I have drawn on my chart is structural shift.

I've seen a lot of people calling for down from here.

I am genuinely curious as to why?

For me, when given a structural shift, it is completely negated when enough liquidity is gathered.

Structural shift makes a move to nearest liquidity. If liquidity is great enough said structural shift and move down is now completed.

IMO previous range high and daily demand drawn in blue is great enough.

Now price moves for next levels of great enough liquidity to shift directions.

For me that is at least those highs around 123-124.

At least that's my thought process right now.

[Olu of Trades 📈 @oluoftrades]

To my men,
Read this

Give Yourself 3 Months

Take care of your body, mind, & soul.

Do these things I’ll highlight below:

Organize your time.
Eliminate procrastination.
Practicing radical self-care & self-love.
Delete the apps.
Wake up earlier and try not to touch your phone for the first one hour of waking up
Get dressed up even though you're not going anywhere
Eat healthier
Journal [not only trades. Make it about your whole life]
Have spa days, & exercise.

This is your ONLY life. No dress rehearsal here.
Do what you can to love & enjoy every aspect of it.
No more waiting.
Be the person you've always wanted to be. This will not be like the other times, this time you will change, you will stick to habits, and you will see results.

Happy Weekend 💙

[👁 @Oculustrade]

How long it really takes to recover from crashes:

1907 Panic: –48% … 10 years to make new highs.
1929 Great Depression: –89% … 25 years to recover.
1973 Oil Shock: –45% … 9 years to recover.
1987 Black Monday: –36% … 2 years.
2000 Dot-com Bust: –78% Nasdaq … 15 years to recover.
2008 Financial Crisis: –57% … 5.5 years.

Now look at the modern market:
2020 COVID Crash: –34% … new highs in 6 months.
2022 Bear: –27% … new highs in under 18 months.
2025 Crash: -23% to new highs in 1.5 months

Crashes used to take years or decades to heal.

Now It’s training you to believe every dip will bounce… until the one comes that doesn’t.

And when that happens? It won’t bounce for years.
Imagine if the top is already in, and you don’t see a new high again until 2040 or 2045.

Most of you won’t live to see it.
And that’s exactly what’s about to happen.

[Doc @docXBT]

Playing “the game” of crypto is how you make wealth in this industry.

And it’s hard af. As it should be.

You play the game by,

- Being early.
- Placing high conviction, speculative bets.
- Sizing large into those bets a few times a year.
- Rotating.
- Catching narrative shifts before they go mainstream.

All with no guarantee of success.

All with a ticking time bomb looming in the background.

It's all gunna go to zero.

You know this. What can you keep before it does?

Most people go all-in on "the game" and accept that there's no guaranteed outcome.

You live with constant pressure of making it now "before the music stops"

You deal with immense stress.
Anxiety. Sleepless nights.
You watch your health decay.
You withdraw from society.

All while understanding there's a 99% chance you won't make it anyways.

No one talks about how you can make the game easier for yourself.

What if I told you that you could remove the ticking time bomb?

What if I told you that you could reduce the stress, anxiety and impending sense of doom?

Well, you can.
- If you specialize.

Specialization is its own uniquely difficult challenge that requires shorter term sacrifice for longer term stress relief.

You must sacrifice some of the game in the name of specialization.

Once you specialize it removes the burden of missing or fumbling.

It puts chips on the table each week.

For me, it was trading.

I came into crypto as a tourist last cycle and got humbled several times. I eventually walked away with some money but realized it was only bc of the bull market.

I had no underlying skill. If there was no bull market, I would make no money. My confidence was at an all time low. I understood that if there was another bull market I would face a similar choice. Make it or lose 4 years of my life.

I made it my priority to never feel helpless again.

I wanted to be able to trade any condition regardless of the market. I didn't want a 4 year time bomb.

“Building in the bear” isn’t just some trite cope line.

It's legitimately the key to your success.

Had I not full time, no life traded the entirety of 2022 during those dogshit conditions I would not be where I am today. I owe everything to that sacrifice.

Now, 4 years later after several profitable trading years. I will be the first to tell you that trading is NOT the most profitable strategy in crypto. Playing "the game" is.

BUT trading allows me to consistently build chips. It reduces the stress and pressure of those hyper intense market situations. It makes me not give a single fuck about cycle tops or bottoms.

Miss a rotation? Whatever.
Miss a meta? Whatever.

There's no shortage of opportunity if you can hang your hat on your skillset.

It doesn't HAVE to be trading though.

This industry has no shortage of opportunity.

Build. Code. Research. Design. Mod. Edit. Meme. Art. Analysis. Content creator. Writer. Educator. Podcaster. Accounting. so on..

Make yourself into a weapon.

If not today, then make sure you do it in "the bear market".

Whatever it is, it’s your edge.
It's your income.

This repeatable skillset becomes your safety blanket. It’s how you extract value from the market consistently. Not just during hype cycles.
Not just when your bags are mooning.
It gives you durability. The ability to stay in the arena long enough to actually catch the big cycles.
It gives you peace.
It relieves the pressure of having to make it NOW and allows you to solve for longevity.

Show up long enough and you will catch something.

Generational wealth requires two things, time in the market and not blowing up.

Most of you will blow up due to the pressure that the game induces.

Playing “the game” might give you a shot at getting rich fast.

But specializing is what keeps you here long enough to let time and experience do its job.

[LU$O🦇 @OnlyLuso]

Guy loosing streak deal with me during the week, I say make I backtest for wekeend to see wetin dey sup😂😂 omo e still wan keel me inside backtest session o😂😂. I come dey pity myself against next week guyy😂

[Eze Kingsley Ohaji @ohajielom]

Your risk tolerance isn’t how much you can lose, it’s how much you can lose without losing control.

[Eze Kingsley Ohaji @ohajielom]

I’m holding XAUUSD all the way to 3,800. That’s my level, and I’m not getting out before then.

The market structure and the bigger picture still point higher, so there’s no reason to cut the move short.

I’ve managed my risk, stops are set, and I’m not stressing over the noise. This isn’t about hoping, it’s about trusting the setup and letting the trade play out.

For me it’s simple: stay patient, stay disciplined, and let the market do its thing. So, 3,800 is where I’m taking profits.

[GOTH ANGEL SINNER @Lilpeep]

Work for it

[Gucci Mane @gucci1017]

It's time to go 100x harder

[Eze Kingsley Ohaji @ohajielom]

Spending 6 months to 1 year learning to trade makes you a student, not a financial trader. Even though we’re all students of the market.

A financial trader earns that title through experience, consistency, strict risk management, and years of execution while surviving different market conditions.

[Eze Kingsley Ohaji @ohajielom]

In trading, patience looks like laziness to outsiders. But it’s the highest form of work.

[F X 4 L I V I N G @fx4_living]

@4500px https://t.co/11aLQaCznY

[DD @D_DTRADING]

Hearing about people taking their own lives in the trading space breaks me. I also suspect someone I had long contact with on Discord, who suddenly disappeared months ago, made the same decision.

We need to talk about this.
Trading is brutally hard. It tests your mind, your identity, your finances and when the pressure builds, it can crush even the strongest.

Yet what do we often do?
We laugh at others’ mistakes.
We celebrate their losses.
We feed our egos by tearing someone else down.

That culture must stop.

This space doesn’t need more toxicity. It needs more humanity. We need to support each other, not break each other. You never know what battle the person on the other side of the screen is fighting.

If you are struggling, feeling hopeless, or drowning in dark thoughts, please reach out. To me, to someone you trust, to anyone. Don’t stay silent.

Your life is infinitely more important than any chart, any trade, any account size.

The market is never worth your life❤️

[Bob Loukas 🗽 @BobLoukas]

If crypto was your entry into investing and you’ve built real wealth, but you’re still 100% in crypto, now’s the time to seriously think/plan about diversifying, branching out, and expanding your horizons.

[david @joker_szn]

truly a loss for the entire trading community

we will continue our "hello" streaks elsewhere

may you rest in peace, brother - you will be missed.

[Tyler @TylerDurden]

Greatest ratio of all time.

[cozy @vec0zy]

we built this whole industry. sit tf down zoomer

[Tyler @TylerDurden]

I’m long Solana and Bitcoin and everyone else is long creator coins.

I am a boomer.

[Mayne @Tradermayne]

Man he reached out to me at one of my lowest points.

This shit stings man dam.