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it's not easy being a small fish in crypto

i know the feeling of clicking on a token in fomo, and seeing the same whales just casually holding $10k to $100k of a token and posting one line theses on why their bullish

i know ppl who just blindly ape $10k into each token someone mentions and it doesn't matter to them if there's a 50% drawdown because somewhere else in their portfolio there will be a token that 5-10xs

as someone trading smaller size it sometimes feels like a 2-3x won't make a difference in the grand scheme of things.

it feels like we need to do the research, find gems at smaller market caps before it gets picked up by bigger accounts.

and it's scary and risky. sometimes it means being down 75% and questioning yourself on whether you should keep holding or just cut your losses.

other times it means not having the capital to put into another project because your cash is locked up in another coin that's down that you still believe in

sometimes it means depositing another $500 from your bank account even though you told yourself that yesterday's deposit was the last one.

i know this feeling because im one of you. i spent the last 2-3 years saving up everything I had to be ready for this bull cycle

spending hours researching, listening to podcasts & streams to make sure that i have an edge in these markets

if any of this resonates, I invite you to follow me on x and fomo as I navigate the markets, share what i learn, highlight the projects i come across, and my progress

i'm not special, nor do i have any insider information, but i am a trader with a dream who loves the game and is fired up to succeed

lets do this

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if you cannot execute the popular game, stop playing it.

he failed every sneaker drop he tried, and school made it hard to juggle both. people were still making money reselling. that did not make the flip his trade.

the seat he could play was buying checkout bots on restock. a checkout bot is software that buys a drop in 1-2 seconds instead of 10-15 by hand. they dropped maybe 100 copies into 10,000 people. $300 retail flipped for $5k to $6k because the tool only had value if most people did not have it.

name the part of the market you actually execute. if time, skill, or temperament do not match the main game, take the adjacent seat or sit out.

@notthreadguy @counterpartytv @nickbruhman

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a strong day is when you should fire the coins that will not rally.

if bitcoin or the leaders are working and your name is not, that is information. relative strength is whether the coin actually goes up when bitcoin and the leaders are up. he says this is a good day if you hold other coins (altcoins), and especially if those alts are still underperforming. it is time to get rid of them.

his original $PUMP play was wait for a bitcoin leg up, then see. if it underperformed, he was done. that test has to exist before the move. he obviously did not make it that far, and $PUMP still has work to do.

@notthreadguy @counterpartytv

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threadguy strea: solana is back, cpi today (9/11/26) 🧵

hot solana tape and a consumer price index (CPI) coming in today. threadguy discusses it all.

key takeaways

1/ a viral coin that fully retraces is the default, not the shock

a meme coin tied to a fruit-fly brain map ($flybrain) launched on a lab story, got famous follows, then retraced the whole pump even after 141x.

upnl screenshots are lottery tickets, not a method. size novelty coins as money you can lose, assume a full retrace is normal, and do not chase someone else's open winner out of fear of missing out.

2/ when the launchpad token is the only trade, the setup is already awkward

he has a lot of money sitting on-chain and still will not blast solana meme coins just because the tape is hot. a launchpad is the factory that mints new coins, and when nobody wants the products and everyone wants the factory, that is a warning, not a green light.

you can believe solana is alive and still refuse to be the last buyer of the venue token. if you do own a launchpad, write down whether you are paid to hold it (yield, buybacks) or only hoping the next coin saves you, because those are different trades.

3/ don't let one inflation print rewrite your whole book

thread guy says the CPI bounce is not that significant. the market is pricing about an 80 percent chance of a rate hike, and his bet that the federal reserve leaves rates unchanged is losing. official cumulative inflation since 2020 is around 29%, about 7% a year, but a short shop for shampoo, toothpaste, and a few foods still hits $100.

treat a single CPI morning as one data point, and if you already have a view into the 9/16 fomc meeting, decide size around that event instead of chasing the first green spike.

4/ if you are not a specialist, sit in the names that keep getting bought

he liked a don alt note: ethereum leading sends other coins (altcoins) up, then a tiny ethereum pullback sends those alts back toward zero. there is a sticky bid, meaning buyers who keep showing up, in ethereum and a couple of other names.

chasing coins that only work when ethereum is ripping is how a small pullback wipes a week of gains. if you cannot trade every wiggle, sit in the names that still get bought when the tape gets messy, and write down what would make you leave so you are not improvising mid-move.

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@notthreadguy @counterpartytv
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[threadguy @notthreadguy]

MARKET OPEN: SOLANA IS BACK, CPI TODAY, The USA is in a PICKLE!

join on twitch to chat link below https://t.co/7j2f8JEGiL

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the four-year crypto calendar is a crowd map, not a law of physics.

the four-year cycle is the story that crypto booms and busts on a clock. it can be a useful framework. if you only trade that calendar, you leave money on the table.

taiki does not really believe in it, but he respects it because most of crypto does. if the crowd is one-sided, you already know how they will act. last year he sold in the third quarter (q3) and shorted the late-cycle coins. this year everyone screamed a guaranteed fourth-quarter (q4) dump, so the other side was buy good assets in q2 and q3: bitcoin, hyperliquid, lighter, and zcash. he bought months ago and will not sell.

in a bull you size into the names that are working and sit. do not take every 2x off the table because a cycle post said the dump is due. write the sell rule before you are up 30% or 2x so panic from old losses is not the strategy.

@notthreadguy @counterpartytv @TaikiMaeda2

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his biggest lesson from round one of the bull was caring about everybody else's profit-and-loss (p&l) curve.

leaderboards and other people's p&ls made him miserable even after his best trade ever.

other people's luck on paper is not a grade on your process. mute the board while you are in a position and judge the year on whether you followed your rules. if envy is making you put more on or refuse to close a loser, fix that habit before you fix the chart.

@notthreadguy @counterpartytv

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altcoins that only work when ethereum is leading go back toward zero on a tiny pullback.

1/ a sticky bid is buyers who keep showing up. he sees it in $ETH, $ZEC, and $VVV.

2/ if you are not an excellent trader, stick to those names instead of chasing coins that only work when $ETH is ripping.

3/ write down what would make you leave so you are not improvising mid-move.

@notthreadguy @counterpartytv

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does one inflation print rewrite your whole book?

no. he does not think the consumer price index (cpi) pump is that significant. the market is already at 80% for a hike, and his bet that the federal reserve leaves rates unchanged is down pretty bad. that is a marked view. it is not a reason to chase the first green spike.

if you already have a view into the 9/16 federal open market committee (fomc) meeting, decide size around that date. size is how much you put on the trade. a morning print is one data point on the way there.

official cumulative inflation since 2020 is about 29%, or 7% a year. grocery life still feels like 50% when shampoo, toothpaste, and a few foods hit $100 before you blink. the gap can be real. it is still not a trade by itself.

@notthreadguy @counterpartytv

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when nobody wants the new coins and everyone wants the factory, that is a warning, not a green light. you can believe solana is alive and still refuse to be the last buyer of the venue token.

a launchpad is the factory that mints those coins. he will not start buying a lot of solana meme coins just because the market is busy.

he does not like it when the launchpad is the only trade, even though that pattern worked for $pump and for $pons. it sets a weird precedent: people do not really want to hold the assets, so the main trade becomes the factory.

if you do own a launchpad, write down whether holding it pays you or you are only hoping the next coin saves you. those are different trades. $STONK pays yield that recycles into the top names, so holders are pulled into the new low caps and the token and the coins feed each other.

@notthreadguy @counterpartytv

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the screenshot is still an open trade. that is why it is not a method.

a fruit-fly brain-map meme got famous follows, printed 141x and 370x up&l screenshots (p&l) from people who got in at sub 1m market cap, then retraced the whole pump.

fear of missing out is what makes you buy someone else's leftover winner after the pump already happened.

size novelty coins as money you can lose. a full retrace is the default until proven otherwise.

@notthreadguy @counterpartytv

[LB @lbexplorer]

RH season 3 will focus on high quality tech runners rather than memes.

Key infra projects are sitting at disgustingly low valuations.

Be positioned.

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love the transparency from the @deltaliquidity team

numbers look rock solid

[Delta @deltaliquidity]

Delta analytics are now live on Dune.

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[DineroDom @DineroDom0]

Rarely in crypto do you see a chart that looks as good as robinhood:0xe8ffd7e24187f72afb08d75b1bb13088a989a791 does. Major compression on the chart, fee switch turned on, deep value zone, core infra on Robinhood.

The RR at these levels is just so incredibly good

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market bubble ep 19 (9/10/26) 🧵

the first ugly week of a bull market is when remaining skeptics still have no position and treat the dip like the old bear is back. ansem calls that window a gift if you actually believe the bigger uptrend is intact.

1/ the first pullback is a gift while skeptics still sit in cash

if you believe the bigger uptrend is intact, do not sell the first ugly week as if all-time lows are coming back.

ansem said people who have not flipped bullish yet are still unallocated, so they read a dip as the bear continuing. use a dip in bitcoin and solana at levels you already liked to build a position you can hold into the next quarter and the next year.

size so a hike from the FOMC or an oil spike does not force you out.

2/ most people lose fast. a job and a longer clock are the actual edge

do not quit your job to day-trade. they cited the 90/90/90 rule: 90 percent of people lose 90 percent of their money in the first 90 trades, and one app showed about 95 percent of users flat or down.

ansem said a nine-to-five is an edge because you can think in years, put most of the book in names you can hold, and keep tiny lottery tickets in new onchain tokens as a small sleeve.

needing a million dollars this month makes you size too big, while DCA bitcoin from about $3,000 in 2017 toward $80,000 later would have beaten a lot of people's trading over nine years.

3/ a 70% crash after a 100x is normal, not a reason to never hold

on-chain tokens can go up 100x, then drop 70%, and that is not crazy in that market. ansem said pullbacks happen when new launches outpace demand and attention gets spread thin.

size so a two-thirds give-back is survivable, or you are not actually holding for the thousand-times outcome. pick a few leaders you would still want after a nasty shakeout instead of chasing every new ticker.

4/ this cycle's on-chain story is memes bolted onto real stocks

ansem called it meme-fi: decentralized finance (DeFi, financial apps with no bank in the middle) in 2020, meme tokens around 2023, and now memes plus finance coming on-chain through tokenized stocks and real-world assets (RWAs, things like stocks or property represented as tokens).

pure memes usually top when attention tops. pairing them with assets that have value outside the chat, deeper liquidity, and a reason to hold besides the joke makes them sturdier. treat a ticker with no link to anything real as a short-attention trade, not a core hold.

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[Ansem 🐂🀄️ @blknoiz06]

HUNTER BIDEN: Market Bubble Episode 19 - Presented by Polymarket https://t.co/wWNyhOQMWu

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if you already like the thesis, do not pass just because $10m market cap feels rich versus last cycle's entries under $1m.

he saw cash cat at 10m, 12m, 13m and wanted robinhood chain exposure. he told himself it was only 10m and he could wait. a few days later a filing hit and it went to 100m. he missed it because he was not quick on the trigger. in 2020 and 2021 he would have been in below 1m.

right now is when you want to be paying the most attention. an hour of your time now is worth much more than the same hour 6 months from now, and you do not get the beginning of a market back.

watch live prices, keep a little unused cash, and add names you already wanted when they sit on a level that already held. being slightly early and sized so you can live with it beats waiting for a perfect cheap entry and never getting in.

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