Just found @DustswapOnBase and it's actually packed with stuff to do.
Daily check-ins ✅
Spin for rewards ✅
Quests ✅
Swap & bridge on Base ✅
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@gib_work is genuinely impressive.
It's a platform where anyone can post tasks or pick them up and get paid on-chain — fast, transparent, and built for Web3.
If you've got skills and want to earn, or you need work done without the usual friction
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🚨 IRAN STRAIT OF HORMUZ SHUTDOWN IS ABOUT TO BREAK THE MARKETS
THE WORST CASE SCENARIO IS HERE
Strait of Hormuz is being shut down 🛢️ Oil $CL spiking, Bitcoin $BTC Yields rising, Brokers tightening margin $GC
3️⃣ things that happen next:
1️⃣ Markets absorb the shock
2️⃣ Deleveraging wave hits
3️⃣ Liquidity crisis across all markets
This is not just geopolitics. This is financial tightening. Watch $ES $QQQ VIX
Which scenario are we heading into? 👇
Justin Bieber:
285 songs, 85 hits (30%)
Taylor Swift:
243 songs, 59 hits (24%)
Drake:
133 songs, 38 hits (28%)
73% of their output fails.
Yet they are global superstars.
Now relate this to trading life:
In trading, you don’t need to win every trade.
You don’t even need to win most trades.
You need:
•A system with an edge
•Proper risk management
•Emotional control
•Consistency
If you risk 1% per trade and aim for 1:3 Risk–Reward:
Lose 7 trades = –7%
Win 3 trades = +9%
You are still profitable.
Just like music:
Not every song is a hit.
Not every trade is a winner.
But one big move can pay for many small losses.
The beginner quits after 5 losses.
The professional understands probability.
The beginner takes losses personally.
The professional sees losses as business expenses.
Trading life is not about being right.
It’s about managing risk long enough
for your edge to play out.
Stay consistent.
Stay patient.
Let the math work.
Because in trading — just like in music —
you only need a few hits to change your life.
The argument of viewing historical market price can not predict the future (thus TA is BS), is only partially true, its not that binary as to yes or no. While you can not 100% predict the future outcome of the market, historical trends and norms do occur, which do provide an edge driven by the expectancy.
If ABC happens and than XYZ is the result, say 80% of the time historically, I have an edge here in taking the position that favors the 80% rather than just flipping a coin. While it is true that the result of that trade will be win or loss, which by definition is 50/50, the expectancy on my bias is not 50/50 as I am making a calculated assumption on available data and taking the position that has the higher expectancy.
I use Technical Analysis in my trading derived from historical data. My results are better than a coin flip. So it does work and the argument that its not better than a coin flip just sounds like nonsense being spewed from someone who couldn't find success in it.
"A man may see straight and clearly and yet become impatient or doubtful when the market takes its time about doing as he figured it must do. That is why so many men in Wall Street, who are not at all in the sucker class, not even in the third grade, nevertheless lose money. The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight." ~ Jesse Lauriston Livermore