Cryptocurrency retail investors face a significant dilemma during the bull market,
and this dilemma has grown to a point where it cannot simply be summarized by the words 'losing money'; it is a feeling of powerlessness from the bottom up.
The dilemma is that many retail investors have not misjudged the overall direction, yet they are unable to make money.
Many retail investors are actually correct in their direction, bullish on BTC / ETH, optimistic about mainstream public chains, and confident in long-term sectors like AI / L2 / DeFi,
but when BTC, SOL, and major indexes have surged significantly, their account balances have not only failed to increase but may have even shrunk.
Clearly, there is no trend of missing out, yet there is almost no profit to be found.
The opponents of retail investors now are VCs, teams, and bots, as well as systematic yield farming studios,
with early rounds, market makers, and team chips not available to retail investors,
while the trading side has quantitative market making and MEV bots, and retail orders have reached the end of the information and speed spectrum.
In the past, one could survive with a rough strategy, through halving and then a BTC bull market, followed by an altcoin season and then a gradual correction,
but this time, most retail investors' experience has basically been that, despite being part of a bull market, my overall assets are not much different from a bear market.
Thus, the retail investors who are still holding on are generally in a very awkward intermediate state:
- They are unwilling to only hold BTC and ETH
- They do not have the time or energy to act like scientists with algorithms
- They also do not want to be pure gamblers betting on VCs and MEME coins
Current cryptocurrency retail investors urgently need a stunning turnaround, to find the next BTC and ETH consensus, or simply cling to BTC and ignore other wealth effects forever.
