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[Carl Moon 🌙 @carlmoon]

WORST DAY OF MY LIFE

My life’s work has been taken away from me.

My YouTube channel was terminated yesterday, with over 600,000 subscribers.

Since 2017, I’ve uploaded more than 4,000 videos to The Moon Show, covering Bitcoin.

Building this channel has required years of relentless work, sacrifice, and dedication.

I’ve had the privilege of sharing my journey and analysis with an incredible community.

Yesterday, @YouTube took this away from me…

My team and I are doing everything possible from our side.

I urgently ask @TeamYouTube and @YouTubeCreators to manually investigate, help secure the account, and reinstate The Moon Show.

More than 4,000 videos and nearly a decade of my life are tied to this channel.

Please help me get it back.

RETWEET PLEASE!!!

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

Knowing ten strategies means nothing if you cannot put even one into practice.

Mastering a strategy does not just mean memorizing an entry pattern.
It means understanding even the losses that system produces through your own testing and practice.

How well you understand it shows more in your actions when you are losing than in your explanations when you are winning.

[Lance Breitstein 🇺🇸🌎 @TheOneLanceB]

#1 RULE OF TRADING

If it works for you and the pnl curve works, god bless ya and keep rocking on! 🤘

Nobody knows everything. Anyone can be wrong. Data, proof, and finding what is right for YOU trumps all.

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

Emotions are not the enemy of consistency.
Emotions exist to keep you consistent with every belief you hold.
Emotions arise automatically according to the beliefs you hold.

You consistently break your rules, and you consistently attach importance to winning and losing.
That is because you believe more strongly that "wins and losses have value" than that following your rules matters, and your emotions work to make you act consistently with that belief.

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Even if it looks like the trade could win, you have to pass because your rules do not allow you to enter.
And if price then keeps moving in that direction, you suffer thinking, "I would have won if I had entered."
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Your rules require you to take the stop.
But taking the stop locks in the loss, so you do not want to exit.
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You are afraid of losing your unrealized profit, so you cannot wait for the take-profit point defined by your rules and want to take profit early.

At that moment, your emotions are not destroying your consistency.
"I want to win this trade."
"I do not want to lose."
"I do not want to lose the unrealized profit I have now."
Your emotions are trying to make you act consistently with those beliefs.

If you believe

"Winning the trade in front of me has value."
"Losing has a meaning that should be avoided."
"Protecting the profit in front of me matters more than following my rules."

then your emotions will work in a direction consistent with those beliefs.

That is why you want to enter even when your rules say you should pass.
You do not want to take the stop even when your rules say you should.
You want to lock in profit early even when your rules say you should wait for your take-profit condition.

And then you try to follow your rules while suppressing those emotions.
This turns trading into "a battle with your own emotions."

Consciously, you are trying to "follow your rules," but your beliefs place greater value on the immediate result reflected in "I want to win," "I do not want to lose," and "I do not want to lose my unrealized profit."

But the reverse is also true.

If you truly understand from testing and practice through your own hands that continuing to follow the rules of a system with an edge leads to long-term profitability, and that understanding has transformed your beliefs, then your emotions will now work in a direction consistent with those beliefs.

Following your rules becomes natural, and instead, you begin to feel strong resistance to deviating from them.
You no longer need to suppress your emotions every time just to keep following your rules consistently.

The function of emotion has not changed.
The beliefs that your emotions are trying to keep you consistent with have changed.

This is not a matter of controlling your emotions, nor a matter of mental toughness, nor a matter of eliminating emotions.

The goal is not to become better at fighting your emotions.
It is to reach a state where following your rules and your beliefs point in the same direction, so there is no need to fight your emotions in the first place.

Turn emotional gambling into a job where all you do is "wait and click."
A step-by-step process for turning your strategy into a repeatable system with an edge👇
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Thank you for reading.

[Trox @troxhl]

First trader on Traderpedia is smartestmoney.hl

>Went public in January 2023 and finished the year #1 all-time Coin-M PnL on Binance

>Full-port HYPE at Hyperliquid TGE in December 2024

>Still holds about 6 million HYPE, near $480M at recent marks, most of it staked or lent on HyperEVM alongside a nine-figure perp long

>Anonymous, self-taught discretionary futures trader who came through poker and US equities before crypto in 2017

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

Paradoxically, the more you keep watching the chart for reassurance, the more you amplify your anxiety.

Your actions make the motive behind those actions stronger.
In other words, the more you look, the more you reinforce the feeling that "this one result in front of you matters."

This is extremely dangerous.
Because it runs directly against probabilistic thinking.

The more important this one result in front of you becomes, the further you move away from probabilistic thinking.
Even though you need to keep following your rules consistently, the feelings of "I want to win" and "I don't want to lose" grow stronger, making it harder to follow your rules.

Probabilistic trading requires you to keep following your rules no matter what happens.
You will have to take a stop according to your rules, take another stop, and at times go through a losing streak while still following your rules.
That too is doing the job correctly.
If you place too much importance on the one trade in front of you at times like that, you will suffer.

Build a structure that makes the process safe and robust enough that the one result in front of you no longer matters to you, test it again and again across large sample sizes, practice it, and make your trust in results over the long term unshakable.

Turn emotional gambling into a job where all you do is "wait and click."
A step-by-step process for turning your strategy into a repeatable system with an edge👇
https://t.co/wcFPtANHhy

Newsletter👇
https://t.co/nbu7ATvgoo

Thank you for reading.

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

Again and again, you think, "I finally get it!" only to have that hope shattered the next day.
I've been through that many times myself.

And even then, you still find yourself saying,
"This is it! I finally get it!"

This never ends because you are focused on the result in front of you or on a small sample size.
This is the trap I often call the "improvement loop."

The improvement loop is like a swamp, and the more you struggle, the harder it becomes to escape.
In other words, the more you try to improve that way, the more trapped you become in that swamp.

What you should be looking at is a large sample size.
That is where the real answer is.

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

This is one of the things I find fascinating about trading.

Beginners think, "Trading is easy."
After gaining some experience, they start thinking, "Trading is incredibly hard."
Then the best traders eventually start saying, "Trading is easy," again.

But the "easy" at the beginning and the "easy" at the end are not the same thing at all.

Beginners think it is easy because they have not yet seen what makes it difficult.
With experience, they begin to see the complexity that was invisible before, including uncertainty, emotions, their own judgment, and attachment to outcomes.

Then, after thorough preparation and repeated practice, much of that complexity turns into things you no longer need to decide in the moment.
When it is time to wait, you wait.
When it is time to act, you act.
Only what is necessary remains.

There is simplicity at both the entrance, where you know nothing, and the exit, after you have gone through everything.
The same word, "easy," describes both, but there is an entirely different world between them.

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

The ugly truth about why .5% of men make it and most live sh!t lives...

Is that you can't work or motivate yourself to success.

You have to create a metaphoric gun to your head with a very real mental bullet. An outcome that is up there with death.

Let me explain:

You won't see growth in your life... personal or in income... from motivation. You can't willpower it either.

You will see it when you've endured enough pain that you have truly had enough and refuse to stay as you are.

Most men only stop drinking when it makes their life unbearable.

Most men only choose to take big risks and become successful when they reach a breaking point from the work they are stuck in.

I for example NEVER wanted to be an entrepreneur growing up. It wasn't till I was 22, broke and stuck and hating my job, that I literally couldn't live any longer in my current situation. I didn't want to build a business. I had to. My life was unbearable due to where coasting had gotten me.

Only when "at any cost, I can't live like this anymore" becomes your motivation will you see huge growth.

The way to achieve this is by removing what numbs you. The things that stop you from looking in the mirror and going "what the fucking fuck."

The cheap dopamine, cheap thrills, booze/pot/junk that leave you foggy and unclear. The things that let you feel okay, despite your life being very much "not okay" if you actually look it in the eye.

Most men never do this. They never look at the things they CHOOSE accept about themselves. Poor health. Poor habits. Awful results in everything.

They just open a beer, load up a video game, scroll social media and bury it. This is because looking at how ugly you are is hard. The best way to ensure you stay metaphorically fat and disgusting is simply to not look in the mirror.

You have to look at who you truly are and feel such disgust that you will no longer tolerate staying where you are.

Without this you will only get temporary bursts. You will only make do on willpower, which is finite.

Something close to a gun to your head must be created in your mind. You must vehemently reject who and what you are to the point that it keeps you up at night.

Then you'll simply make whatever you want happen.

This is why most men never unlock their potential till they hit rock bottom. Most, despite WANTING success, are always in a numb state of "mostly" comfortable. The years then pass, they get old, nothing changes.

Whatever it takes to trigger this. Do it.

The answer isn't a self help book. It isn't researching and admiring other role models. It isn't envisioning a better life and mapping out daily steps to get there.

It's unbridled-unholy-rage as a result of where your life choices have gotten you.

This won't sustain you forever....But shit damn...It will guaranteed get you over the initial hurtle and to the point where "love of the game" will carry you.

Like I said before, it usually comes down to removing everything that is distracting and numbing you so that you are forced to look at yourself for who you truly are.

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

A single trade will not change your life.

Your long-term results begin to change only when you become someone who can consistently repeat the same process without being swayed by the outcome of a single trade.

If you want to change your life, the first thing you need to change is not the outcome in front of you, but yourself.

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

Trading for a long time is not the same as gaining valuable experience.

If you keep making different decisions every time for years, all you build is the habit of "doing something different every time."

Do not look at years of experience.
Look at how many times you have applied the same standard with your own hands.

[The White Whale @WhiteWhaleLabs]

I see a lot of people who’ve been in crypto for years starting to lose at a faster pace than some newcomers. I think it comes down to one key factor:

The inability to pivot.

Evolution is part of growth - whether in relationships, your career, or as a part-time trader.

Imagine spending a lifetime with your spouse. They’re going to grow and change over the years. How successful will your relationship be if you refuse to grow alongside them?

The markets are no different.

Crypto isn’t the same market it was when you first entered. It’s not even the same market it was a year ago. Old playbooks stop working. Historical truths can become present-day fiction.

The traders who thrive the most aren’t necessarily the smartest or the ones with the highest IQ. They’re the ones willing to challenge their own assumptions, abandon strategies that no longer have an edge, and adapt before the market eats them alive.

Markets do not reward nostalgia. In many cases they punish it.

Never become emotionally attached to a strategy simply because it worked in the past. Be loyal to the pursuit of truth - not to your own beliefs.

🫡 From the depths —
The White Whale 🐋

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

Traders who remain profitable over time do not see being out of the market as "time spent doing nothing."

Being flat is a position too.
Holding no position when the conditions are not met does not mean you are not participating.
It means you are executing the rule-based decision not to trade right now.

Many traders feel that they cannot make money unless they are in a position.
So they force themselves to search the chart for a reason to trade and take trades even when the conditions are not met.

But taking more trades does not create more edge.
When you add trades outside your conditions, all you do is mix untested outcomes into the results of the system you tested.

A system with positive expectancy includes not only decisions to enter, but also decisions not to enter.
Doing nothing is also part of executing that system accurately.

On many days, the position that contributes most to your profits will be no position at all.

Your profits are not created only by the trades you take.
The decision not to enter because your rules told you not to is also part of your edge.

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[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

When you become an excellent trader, you stop looking for answers in every live trade.

In testing, you confirm, "Does the system have an edge?"
In live trading, you confirm, "Did I execute its rules?"
These are two different jobs.

"I won, so this rule is right."
"I lost, so I should change something."

Once you start thinking that way after one result or a few, you turn live trading into a place to retest the system.
Then your own judgment starts changing to match short-term randomness.

The work of confirming a system's edge must be finished before you move into live trading.
What you should record in live trading is not a conclusion drawn from wins and losses.
It is the fact that you executed the rules exactly as decided in advance.

Live trading is not where you look for answers.
It is where you quietly keep executing the answer you reached through preparation.

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

Want to know the ugly unfair truth about why some guys get rich and others do not?

It's not hard work.

Here it is: Almost every 8-9 figure guy I know at SOME point had a gun to their head where they HAD to be successful.

When I got out of the military, I had $6k and no education.

In short I HAD to make something work.

It wasn't passion that made me work 12-14 hour days to learn how to build an online business.

It wasn't confidence either. I considered myself an idiot. It was fear.

I had about $500 left when I finally started making money.

This fear was the greatest gift God ever gave me. During this time I witnessed that I "could" do it.

THIS is what gave me the confidence to keep going and build what later turned into a sizable net worth.

Most people never get this. They have the option to stay comfortable, they never have to fight, thus they never learn to fight.

Getting comfortable is what also kills most guys ONCE they make it.

If you are waking up and going to bed in fear, say a little prayer.

Pain, fear, anger. They are the most unfair advantage a guy can have. Most are never lucky enough to truly get in bad enough straits that they HAVE to make something happen.

If you do, don't pout. Embrace the dark side, you will come out made of steel and red lightsabers.

[abood @zer0xabood]

my final message goodbye

i believe you have the majority of 2026-2027 where there will be favourable conditions to trade onchain and still make life-changing money.

i feel most traders including ogs on here will sell bitcoin too early, and are not optimistic enough on it. a few months ago, right before the AI meta started i posted about the importance of screentime.

i emphasize on it for a reason, ask the greatest onchain traders how they achieved their breakthrough and they'll tell you being chronically online played the biggest part.

all it takes is one, one good month, one good week, one good day, one good hour, one good click, one good split second decision.

you CAN do it alone, but only if you're willing to sacrifice basically everything to sleuth coins onchain for 10s of hours a day weeks on end, sometimes to the point where you lose sense of time.

aim to build intuition instead of having to borrow conviction from callers, this can only be achieved by lots of screentime.
money creates money, more money creates even more money.

view money as a tool to take advantage of your ability to read narratives. don't be scared to risk money on something with potential. risk often, risk every single time your gut tells you to.

abolish all emotional connection to your trades and money, view it as a game you must win, as a code you must crack.

once it starts cracking (and with enough effort it, always does) use the pixelated gains to better your life and build something irl.

dont just click for the sake of clicking, think, think a lot, think of what others after you will think. but keep your thesis simple, and have the patience to let it play out properly. either be fully wrong, or be fully right. no mediocrity, nothing in between.

i performed very well onchain for '25, and i was lucky enough to see multiple friends hit their lifelong financial goals this year, i find immense joy seeing traders on here do well that began by reading my threads. eternally grateful to have helped anyone find direction or achieve the correct mindset.

trust yourself, learn to bet on yourself, torture yourself with absolute discipline, only then will you find success onchain.

you have my prayers for the year ahead soldiers.

inshallah.

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

People often say, “Accept your losses,” but acceptance is not endurance.

The kind of “acceptance” a trader needs is not endurance or patience.
It is a state in which you understand deep down that the losses produced by following the rules of a system with an edge are themselves part of that edge, and can gladly allow every outcome to unfold as it will.

Certainly, a loss means seeing money decrease right in front of you.
But players in the probability game understand that if they continue taking the same actions, the profits generated will exceed the losses generated, so they can continue acting consistently, with peace of mind, within the position size they have calculated.

Listen, this is how this game is played.

You need to become the casino manager, not one of its players.

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

Many traders misunderstand risk management, but risk management does not exist only to make a single loss look smaller or to ease your fear.

It exists to protect your ability to keep collecting a large sample size until the edge appears in the results.

No matter what you do, you cannot avoid losses.
Because the outcome in front of us is heavily influenced by randomness, what we can do is design risk around the strategy’s performance so that we can continue using that strategy safely and consistently.

This allows us to keep collecting samples safely even through the losing streaks and drawdowns the strategy cannot avoid, and as the sample grows, periods of skewed results make up a smaller proportion of the whole.
That is the law of large numbers.

Above all, risk management exists precisely to maximize the profits generated by the strategy.

[LEGEND @NobleCoins]

Two different mansions within 6 months trading just memes , making it the 4th house in my name . Believing in my strategy and trusting the process . Half a billion spent !

I could remember last year nothing was actually working , I tried so hard to figure it out . Sleepless night ,tears , i actually disappeared from the space .

I came back as twice as tall

To all #memecoins traders reading this ,

DONT EVER GIVE UP LEGEND!!!!!

Good morning and I love you ❤️💪