@worstcontrarian born to trade on the floor of the nyse. Forced to arb moderately illiquid token pairs that large entities write off due to sizing concerns
The highest wisdom of the Japanese and the ultimate reason that young Western men look to them with such admiration is the rejection of irony poisoning, detachment, and jaded nonchalance, instead embracing or even explicitly valorizing sincerity and unconditional authenticity.
A player at your poker table uses a very unorthodox strategy. You haven't spotted obvious blunders yet, but their style is strange and different from most regs.
Should you treat them like a fish?
Yes! The reason is entropy: there are more ways to play bad poker than good poker. So weird strategy = fishy, until proven otherwise.
Could they be a solver sicko who spent months in the lab perfecting obscure tactics? Sure, maybe. But it's much more likely that they're just freestyling because they don't know what they're doing.
2/ Train yourself to go from 10 to 40 to 100 hours of focused work a week. I did this for months building an automated trading system from scratch. 5am-10pm 7days/week
99% of people need #WorkLifeBalance or whatever, and that's great. But I'm talking to the people on a mission.
Everyone is buying a car. It seems to be the future of transportation. I should buy a lot of donkeys, they are cheaper.
The Car -> Donkey rotation will be big
There’s this crypto bro archetype of guys who made ridiculous amounts of money by airdrop farming, being in the right GC at the right time, getting special access, sniping tokens, being here during the great expansion eras when the game was super easy, or otherwise had their crypto lotto tickets hit, who love to convince everyone that since there isn’t much left to extract, the industry is now dead for the rest of us.
Make no mistake these folks will sit on the sidelines posting about how they moved on, and how amazing their lives are and how hollow and empty crypto is, how there are only “a few things of value left,” then return with a brand new shill or idea or farm when the market bounces back or they get bored.
It’s all projection.
Let them brag and demean.
They’re tomorrow’s counter signals, or they might already be.
The more they recognize this, the more they’ll project.
Rinse repeat.
To be clear the game *is* getting harder. But all the more reason to try and win.
Something something we do things not because they are easy.
We do things because they are hard.
Not many are aware but they cut the Nasdaq-100 waiting period from 3 months to 15 days few weeks before the biggest IPOs in history (SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, and more) hit the market.
In simple terms; Index funds are now forced to buy the most inflated valuations ever printed, on schedule.
Indexing used to be free ride on price discovery - now its a forced bid for pension funds while bundle nukes on the American middle class head.
There's one asset, ~$73k a unit, that fixes this.