corey「qherring」

founder @Sherpa_trade | just a happy hedge cooking up wonder on-chain | independent trader & investor since 2014

[corey「qherring」 @q_herring]

I can't emphasize enough the criticality of establishing a comprehensive diagram of relationships that YOU have compiled YOURSELF.

This can map anything you want, but must be based in a logic that is both meaningful to you and sensible enough for others to follow along.

Everything in the world is connected, and the job of a successful trader is to interrogate HOW and to WHAT DEGREE those connections are made.

This will not only provide you with proper insights to build entries and exit points, but give you the confidence and conviction to maintain your positions through the most volatile and trying times of the markets.

Getting other people out of your head, and staying present in the moment (or fully centered on your trade) is only possible by fortifying your own internal voice / vision, and empowering such by synthesizing every proprietary 'tool' necessary.

[Fomocap @fomocapdao]

Most traders think their problem is strategy. It's not. It's attention.

You're drowning in information but remembering nothing. Charts, news, indicators, it all blurs together.

The real issue: we think we're multitasking. We're not.

We're rapidly switching attention, never going deep enough to encode anything into memory. You read 50 posts and retain zero insights. That's not processing, that's scrolling.

This kills you in trading.
Markets are patterns across TIME. If you can't remember what happened last month, how can you recognize when it's happening again? You can't connect dots you've already forgotten.

The goldfish memory problem
- Read important news: feel informed
- Next day: completely forgotten
- Repeat endlessly

You're consuming information without *marking* it, categorizing it, connecting it to anything.

This isn't just trading, it impacts everything.
If you can't hold context, you can't make good predictions. You're always starting from zero.

The solution isn't reading less. It's tracking what matters.

Keep a log. Not everything, just significant events:
- Major market moves
- Policy changes
- Your own trades & why
- Patterns you notice

Connect the dots systematically.
Not schizo conspiracy boards. Not seeing patterns in noise. But rational synthesis:
- "Last time X happened, Y followed"
- "These three events share a structure"
- "This reminds me of [date/event]"

This is how analysts actually think.

Track everything from trading decisions, news to your emotional states during trades

Review weekly. Patterns emerge.

Discipline is directed attention over time.
- Focus on one thing deeply
- Remember what you learned
- Connect past to present
- Act on genuine insight, not impulse

The market rewards those who remember.

[Sherpa @Sherpa_trade]

Summer chop got you down? Yields dried up everywhere you look?

Sherpa still knows where the best risk-adjusted yield is hiding. 8 months live, yield never below 10%, and not a single day of negative returns.

While nobody knows if the cycle bottom is this week or still 8 months out. Whats for certain: there's no better place to compound stables while you wait.
Stack with Sherpa now, DCA the reddest days with real dry powder when they arrive.

[corey「qherring」 @q_herring]

Another $6.2M lost because exploit intel could only reach users through social media and not through their wallet. Continued success in DeFi demands information at the bleeding edge.

What if you got that intel at the transaction level, the moment you interact with an app? The space has REAL recurring problems and REAL risk mitigation solutions should exist.

We've got something cooking 👀

[Omer Goldberg @omeragoldberg]

11/ In total, USDC exit liquidity was provided to Morpho Market USR borrowers through Morpho vault curators for hours after the exploit.

This amounts to roughly $6.2m in exit liquidity, 96% of which is from Gauntlet vaults.

[corey「qherring」 @q_herring]

$WTI & $BTC

history rhymes

[Sherpa @Sherpa_trade]

Keeping up with DeFi is a full-time job.
Actually outperforming? That takes overtime.

New protocols
Shifting incentives
Rotating narratives
The grind never ends...

Precisely why we built sherpaEarn >> one transaction grants access to the best DeFi opportunities of today.
Deposit USDC, earn USDC.
Risk-optimized returns, without the complexity.

[Sherpa @Sherpa_trade]

Sideways / bleeding market got you down? Any $USDC sitting idle waiting for better entries?

sherpaEarn is maintaining ~14% APY + points on top: delta neutral, diversified, & strategically hedged yield.

Drop into the vault and let your deposit compound while you kick back during the holidays.

👇
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[Sherpa @Sherpa_trade]

Q4 has brought new heights for Sherpa:

→ Deployed sherpaEarn, a quant-driven yield vault strategically leveraging Chainlink CCIP for seamless cross-chain share transfers across @ethereum, @base & @monad

→ Shipped our multi-swap meta aggregator on Monad, showcasing over 10,000 asset swaps in the first weeks of mainnet

→ Kicked off our Launchpool points campaign

As 2025 concludes, the ascent continues into the New Year as a @chainlink BUILD member!

[corey「qherring」 @q_herring]

@sassal0x @CloutedMind not only that, we even had POTUS normalizing meme coin scams 😂

[corey「qherring」 @q_herring]

@HalscionRose yeah sounds like a great opp, LPing with MON which goes down 12% a day so i can earn 50% after one year lmao

[corey「qherring」 @q_herring]

@StarPlatinum_ I think about his story occasionally, glad others also still dwell on this too.

i sincerely believe he got "suicided".

Truly decentralized stablecoins are a threat, and he wasn't willing to play ball with the incumbents.

[corey「qherring」 @q_herring]

18yr highs on $JP10Y...

tailwinds becoming headwinds. not a place to be overweight risk imho

[corey「qherring」 @q_herring]

QT ending, $IWM about to ATH, meanwhile $ETH still on life support...

back to this:

[corey「qherring」 @q_herring]

$ETH trades much more like a tech adjacent commodity then it does a true growth stock

something to keep in mind for the days to come

[corey「qherring」 @q_herring]

@__Emmide Check out Coherence

Made on an ultra low budget too of like $50k iirc

[corey「qherring」 @q_herring]

@DefiIgnas Jesus bro, what's your app so know to never use it

Whatever's in your .env better not control much funds

[corey「qherring」 @q_herring]

@xydotdot People honestly believed ZEC was thr next BTC? Jesus Christ what kind of heavy metals are in the dinking water these days

[corey「qherring」 @q_herring]

@TheFlowHorse Zero

[corey「qherring」 @q_herring]

@DefiIgnas Wish we saw more of this tbh. Can't even imagine there's 2M in value on any of those rn lmao

[corey「qherring」 @q_herring]

@JDKirkendoll @zephyr_z9 I know right. OP is clowning

[Gold @Gold_Cryptoz]

We are now at week 3 below $100k and weeks 2 below $90k.

Many traders, even some of the traders I respect the most on here, spoke in length about how if we spent weeks below the 50 MA, weeks below $100k and weeks below the 2025 yearly open then that would mark the begin of the end of the cycle

Yet somehow… Someway… instead of abiding to their original thesis they have somehow become even more bullish on the way down

There’s no need to flip flop on an asset that is showing all the signs of being on the verge of entering into a bear market. Nothing has happened to indicate we are going to rip to all time highs, and for this all to be a bad dream

[corey「qherring」 @q_herring]

@phtevenstrong @pendle_fi @MidasRWA @FarmCapitalXYZ Good info.

JrUSDe from strata and alUSD from almanak deserve a look imo