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As professional traders do not 'feel' the trade — they execute processes — and how to develop a functional mind even under pressure.
1. THE BIGGEST MYTH: 'CONTROLLING EMOTIONS'
Institutions do not teach emotional control. They teach something deeper: Decision-making structure that makes emotion irrelevant.
Emotion only dominates when:
There is unstructured uncertainty.
Rules are vague.
Criteria are subjective.
Decisions depend on 'feeling the market'.
When the process is clear, emotion has no operational space.

What is the FVG (Fair Value Gap)?
The FVG is an unfair price area that occurs when the market moves very quickly, causing candles to jump without touching each other. This gap represents an imbalance between buyers and sellers. In other words:
The price rose or fell so quickly that a candle in the middle did not react, leaving us with a price gap.
📌How is the FVG gap formed?

Introduction
This week marks a meaningful shift in how traditional finance and blockchain ecosystems are positioning themselves for the next era of digital asset adoption. Developments from Bank of America, Vanguard, and Ethereum signal a strengthening alignment between institutional guidance, distribution channels, and long-term network value capture.
Bank of America Recommends 1%--4% Crypto Allocation for Portfolios
Bank of America is rolling out its first formal crypto-allocation guidance, recommending that Merrill, Private Bank, and Merrill Edge clients consider putting 1%--4% of their portfolios into digital assets. It's a notable shift, considering investment advisers weren't allowed to bring up crypto with clients unless asked, a rule that effectively sidelined more than 15,000 advisers during a period of rising demand.
Beginning January 5, 2026, the CIO group will also start covering a handful of spot bitcoin ETFs, including offerings from BlackRock, Fidelity, Bitwise, and Grayscale. Private Bank CIO Chris Hyzy said a small allocation might be appropriate for clients comfortable with volatility, adding that the bank is sticking to regulated products and diversified approaches.
With this move, BoA is falling in line with other big firms that have already put numbers around crypto exposure. Morgan Stanley issued a 2%--4% recommendation for "opportunistic portfolios" in October, while BlackRock has often argued for a 1%--2% bitcoin allocation. Fidelity has long maintained a 2%--5% crypto range, with higher bands for younger investors.
Key Take
Most individual investors still hold no Bitcoin or crypto at all. A recent study estimates global crypto ownership at around 9.9% of internet users, which basically means the majority of people, close to 90%, have zero exposure.We're likely to see more banks opening up their wealth-management channels to crypto, and this area is shaping up to be one of the last major hurdles in U.S. digital-asset distribution. These advisers collectively oversee about $30 trillion, so even something as small as a 2% bitcoin allocation through that pipeline could mean roughly $600 billion of potential inflows.Compared with traders on exchanges or brokerage ETF buyers, who tend to trade around short-term swings, wealth-management clients usually take a portfolio-level approach. When they add bitcoin, it's often a longer-term, more stable position, which makes this type of flow quite different, and arguably more impactful, than typical retail trading.
Vanguard Opens the Door to Crypto ETFs and Mutual Funds
Vanguard is set to open its brokerage platform to crypto ETFs and mutual funds, a move that stands in sharp contrast to its prior position. Back in early 2024, the firm stood firmly to not allow clients to trade the newly approved spot Bitcoin ETFs and went so far as to remove access to Bitcoin futures products. That made Vanguard an outlier among major asset managers.
Vanguard is the world's second-largest asset manager, managing more than $11 trillion in assets and serving over 50 million investors across retail, retirement, and institutional accounts. This move marks one of the most significant mainstream distribution expansions for crypto products to date.
According to the company, it will allow most crypto ETFs and mutual funds that meet SEC requirements, treating them much like other niche sectors such as gold funds. Products tied to memecoins or anything outside the regulatory framework will stay off the platform. Vanguard also made clear that it doesn't plan to launch its own crypto products anytime soon.
Key Take
Vanguard's change in attitude looks largely tied to the steady demand for crypto ETFs from both retail and institutional investors. Even with the recent market pullback, ETF products like BlackRock's IBIT have generated strong revenue for the issuer, and has effectively become one of BlackRock's most profitable product lines.This marks another milestone for the expansion of crypto product distribution channel, and can greatly help to draw in more TradFi investors. That said, it doesn't automatically translate into price gains for Bitcoin or other crypto assets that have ETF exposure.As we've discussed in prior analysis articles, ETF investors tend to be reactive to shifts in market sentiment. They usually buy when the mood in the crypto market is upbeat, but they're just as quick to sell once sentiment turns negative.
Ethereum's "Fusaka" Upgrade Goes Live
Ethereum's latest network upgrade, Fusaka, is now live on mainnet. The update rolls out a batch of changes across both the execution and consensus layers, mainly aimed at helping the chain keep up with the growing amount of data coming in from layer-2 networks.
The centerpiece of the upgrade is PeerDAS (EIP-7594), a new data-availability system that lets nodes verify only small slices of large blob datasets instead of downloading every byte. By sampling segments rather than pulling entire blobs, validators face far lower bandwidth and storage requirements, making data posting cheaper for rollups and allowing them to scale more comfortably.
Fusaka also includes a major increase to Ethereum's block gas limit, raising the default gas limit from 36 million to 60 million units. This expansion gives the base layer far more room to process transactions and smart-contract activity, easing congestion and improving overall throughput.
Key Take
This upgrade benefits both Layer-2 scaling networks and Ethereum's base layer itself. It reflects a gradual shift in Ethereum's development this year, where the focus is no longer solely on L2-centric improvements but also on strengthening L1 scalability.ETH as an asset has struggled with an unclear value-accrual model in recent years. Under a Layer-2--centric roadmap, much of the transaction activity has been offloaded to Layer 2 networks, leaving the Ethereum base layer with limited fee capture. As a result, ETH has moved from being a deflationary asset back into inflationary territory, due to the base layer's insufficient fee revenue capture.Fusaka marks a strategic shift in Ethereum's roadmap toward scaling both L1 and L2, reinforcing the push to make the network a meaningful value generator for ETH holders, especially as increased L1 throughput directs far more economic value to the token than L2 activity.
Weekly Market Chart: Crypto Allocation in Portfolio
Global banks have increasingly warmed to cryptocurrency exposure in client portfolios, particularly via regulated vehicles like Bitcoin ETFs, as institutional adoption grows in 2025. Recommendations vary by bank, risk tolerance, and client type, but most suggest modest allocations (typically 1-5%) to balance potential upside with volatility.
These giant traditional finance institutions often frame bitcoin exposure as a modern alternative asset class akin to "digital gold" that offers potential diversification benefits, inflation hedging, and exposure to technological innovation.

Conclusion
Across institutional finance and blockchain technology, the narrative is becoming clearer:
crypto is transitioning from an experimental asset class into a structured, scalable, and professionally distributed investment ecosystem.
Bank of America brings credibility.
Vanguard brings accessibility.
Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade brings technical maturity.
As these elements converge, the long-term foundation for digital assets becomes stronger — even if the market reacts gradually in the short term.
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