One of the most laughable things on the internet is all the people in our government who have amassed a 39 trillion dollar debt telling us that if they could just tax Elon’s wealth, they could fix everything they have broken. 😂🤡
i could have gone bulltarded and got way more engagement on here this year but i stuck to what i saw on the charts against the grain and focused on my system
that system was built on the losses i've experienced as a trader and isolated time to deep dive into how to read the charts properly
the bear market is a teacher. much like anything in life, if something is painful it's because you haven't felt it before and need to learn how to protect from that pain in future
that's how trading and investing works, growth through adversity. you've got to look back on this bear market from over the past 8 months or so and see where you went wrong
not just in taking losing trades, not just in reading the charts wrong or oversizing positions, refusing to accept losses or doubling down on a loser - but even times where you let outside noise influence you to your detriment. maybe you listened to one of those large bulltarded accounts seeking engagement and you took losses you could have avoided or bought into a coin and got rug pulled
thankfully, you will have an opportunity to put it right in the next bull market. that's always the upside of the bear market
to maximise that opportunity, you should be examining your trading, your investing, your decision making, who you follow, how you lived your life, and also what skills you can bring to the wider crypto market for next time. you need to change. work out where and how, and give yourself something to work on daily that you can track over the next 6 months
it may not be the next bull market that you really reap the rewards that you were promised when you entered crypto. it'll be the one after that when you'll have figured out your system and matured as a trader/investor having now gone through enough cycles of "i am a trading god, i am worthless, i am a trading god, i am worthless". this is typically a rite of passage when navigating the bull and bear markets without a system as an inexperienced trader
it's up to you to put the work in. we're coming to a bottom in the next couple of months. the lessons you learn from this bear market will serve you well in the next cycle if you put the work in now. the bull market favours those that put the effort in during the bear
don't waste the rest of 2026 looking to others to save your portfolio. you have to do the work. learn to trade properly, learn to have conviction in your buys, and learn to be patient
Video popped up on my feed:
“You’re not profitable because of what you do outside of trading.”
Lads, the psychology slop genre has gone too far.
I can put a Buddhist monk in front of a terminal - he’s generally not gonna make any money.
You need some sort of edge, strategy that’s +EV, or even a broad idea of a market effect that you’re trying to monetise.
There has to be a sensible foundation for the actual trades you take, and then ‘psychology’ can help with reducing unforced errors.
Most of the trading psychology stuff is cope; it allows you to focus on breathing exercises instead of confronting that your clicking is completely random.
Iryna Zarutska was 23
Henry Nowak was 18
Iryna was murdered in the US
Henry in the UK
Iryna fled the Ukraine war, only to be murdered on an American subway
Iryna's murderer had a violent history, but liberal judges refused to imprison him
Henry's murderer cried "racism"
Police handcuffed Henry and laughed as he bled to death, and the murderer's mother helped hide the knife
Despite mass public outcry, legacy media never reported on either
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that there is a war on whites
BREAKING: Google is planning to release 32 million mosquitoes across Florida and California.
The company has asked the EPA for permission to proceed, with the public given until June 5 to respond.
The mosquitoes are infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which stops them from reproducing and slowly collapses the wild population from within.
Google's previous Debug Project trial in California's Central Valley nearly eliminated mosquitoes from three test sites entirely. A separate trial in Singapore cut dengue cases by 70% within 12 months.
Google has now released over 1 billion mosquitoes across four continents. This new proposal is the largest deployment in US history.
Finance professional earning $800K/yr with a net worth of $3.5M at 34 feels burnt out
Mentions that work has been hurting personal life and ability to find significant other
Tough advice to hear, but after a certain point, money is no longer a solution to your problems
Life is simply too short to live an unhappy life. If you find your work cutting into your personal life and causing burn out, it is time to walk away or scale back.
This is especially true if you are already worth $3.5M at 34. This guy has already made it. He has every ability to walk away from a stressful life and still live comfortably.
Don’t let the pursuit of more money abstain you from living a life worth living
Regarding the OpenAI case, the judge & jury never actually ruled on the merits of the case, just on a calendar technicality.
There is no question to anyone following the case in detail that Altman & Brockman did in fact enrich themselves by stealing a charity. The only question is WHEN they did it!
I will be filing an appeal with the Ninth Circuit, because creating a precedent to loot charities is incredibly destructive to charitable giving in America.
OpenAI was founded to benefit all of humanity.
@Trader_XO Another one that I refined is the "ATR %", simply it calculates ATR as a % and not as a standard numeric value. This is useful for alts because standard ATR formula doesn't work for sub-dollar coins, and anyway an ATR % is easier to calculate.
@Trader_XO DMI visual indicator, like your 12/21 EMA cross you get a visual and data-driven confirmation if the market is trending up, trending down or ranging. For me, this is a "checklist" item to see if I'm going to a trending setup or a range-bound setup