⚠️It all started 5 years ago, Back then I was an ordinary loader at the market, in a small damn hole in Moldova, Life seemed simple ... even happy. And then — crypto, the market, running to nowhere. Now sometimes I don’t even understand who we all are here and how we got to this point? ❗❗❗Is there at least someone who is really in profit over the distance? Or is it an endless circle of pain for everyone?
Up to 30 manipulations a minute. This is no exaggeration. Bots create illusions. We react to them, and they make profits.
Here’s how it goes for me. Nighttime. You’re sitting in front of the terminal. Everything seems calm. And suddenly, a massive buy wall appears in the order book. Huge. Heavy. You feel a chill and confidence: 'This is it, it's going to fly now.' Your hand automatically hits the buy button. A second later. The wall disappears. Like it was never there. The price plummets. And now you’re staring at a loss, not understanding what just happened.
Nothing special. The algo just checked if there were any fools around. And it found you.
I’ve been caught like that hundreds of times. Now I only look at what’s actually happened. Everything else is just fluff. Don’t fall for it.
This isn’t a lesson. It’s a scar.
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Here I am again, in the same spot. Sitting. Watching. The inventory's the same, but the coin is different.
$DOGS is already taking a backseat. It didn't give me a good entry point. It happens. The market owes nothing to anyone, including me. Now my attention is on $LAYER .
Why this one?
1. Supply is being absorbed. The impulse is nearby. 2. Volume is looking good. Someone big is breathing down my neck. 3. The crowd is still asleep. That's a good sign.
I don't know if it will moon or crash. I only know that if I see a strong reaction on the M15, I'm jumping in. If not — I'll keep watching. Either this one or another. It doesn't matter.
What's important is: I’m not panicking anymore.
In the past, I would’ve already been in a position. Now I'm just chilling. Watching. Waiting. Like an actor in a poorly made black-and-white film, where the plot isn’t finished yet.
The chart for $LAYER is right in front of you. Watch it with me. I’m trading right there with you.
For two days I've been talking about patience and keeping a cool head. Today, I'll show you what that looks like in practice. At $DOGS , I still haven't found a solid entry for the mid-term. The chart was silent. So was I, just waiting. But the market — it's like a poker table in a smoky room. Sometimes it throws you a few chips, just to keep you from leaving the table. I picked up those chips. Two scalps. Small ones. Quick. Here they are. Scalp 1: +1% from the movement. Scalp 2: +0.9%. Still a win. Also quick. What do they have in common? 1. The pullback gave a reaction. 2. Volume and delta confirmed someone is buying. 3. Nobody wanted to sell in the moment — the crowd was hesitating. 4. I entered. Took my profit. Exited. No "it's gonna fly now". No "just a bit more". No greed. In the past, I would have sat in these trades and waited too long, ultimately giving it all back. Not now. I executed my script and walked away. It's not much. But it's from these small wins, gathered with a cool head, that a portfolio is built. The mid-term didn't give me an entry — I didn't enter. The scalp did — I took it. I’ll keep monitoring; there's going to be some position rebalancing, and that's when I’ll open a mid-term trade, but for now, I’ll just wait and keep an eye on other coins.
Yesterday I wrote about the market and the boxes. Today I'll talk about the emptiness inside.
I sit in front of the chart. For hours. By $DOGS I haven’t opened a trade — not happy. At least it’s not a loss — not angry. In the past, I was jittery. Adrenaline. My hands were sweaty. Now, nothing. Right now, I feel like an NPC. I see the level — I enter. I see the stop — I wait. Without emotions. Without thoughts, almost. It's a script. Is this discipline? I don’t know, probably not. Or maybe I’m just tired of feeling? But here's the strange part. It’s precisely now, when there’s silence inside, that I’ve started to earn, a little but I’m earning. The market apparently doesn’t pay for passion. It pays for its absence. Now I can say for sure that the right decisions are made with a cool head. Therefore, friends, always keep track of your emotions.
Yesterday I waited, today I wait further, you can wait with me.
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Today I was asked: "It's a loss. Why don't you just quit?" Hmm, as if I hadn't thought about it. Quit — and where to? Back to the market? To that hole where I was hauling boxes? Waking up early and listening to the boss yell? Where your max is just clocking out and not breaking your back? I'd rather sit in front of the chart, where nothing happens. An hour. Three. Ten. Because in that emptiness, there’s a door. It wasn’t there before. I don't need riches. I need to wake up knowing that today I decide how much I'm worth and how hard I work. This isn’t motivation, it’s not that place. But trading is the only place where someone like me has a shot. Quit? No. I'd rather burn out here than rot over there. And while the deposit is pondering, the market doesn’t wait: $DOGS The chart is in black and white, just like my mood. Consolidation. The calm before the move. When it goes, it’ll go hard. I'm waiting; you can wait with me. I'm trading where you are. Draw your own conclusions.
From Scalper to ‘Collector’ — Experiment: Buying Everything on Binance for $0.10
I've been trading futures for 5 years. My life is all about M1 charts, order books, and constant pressure. But I decided to kick off a ‘lazy’ experiment to clear my mind and test the theory of probability. What's the deal? Every time I close a profitable trade while scalping, I set aside exactly $0.10 from my profits. With these pennies, I head over to Binance Convert and buy a random coin on spot. Any coin, without any analysis or charts. My rules: No management. I don’t look at the charts of these coins. Bought it and forgot it. Goal — 1000x. I have a hard rule: I’ll only cash out when these 10 cents turn into $1000 or $10000. Psychology. For me, this is a ‘tax on luck’. 10 cents doesn’t impact my deposit at all, but it creates a portfolio of hundreds of different assets. In my ‘collection’, I already have several coins. Who knows, maybe in a year or two, one of these forgotten coins, bought ‘on the change’, will shoot up and cover a month of active relaxation in the Maldives? In crypto, anything is possible.
And what do you do with those small USDT leftovers after trading? Do you just let them gather dust or invest in something? $CHIP
It's foolish to rely on luck in that damn wheel 😀, it's better to do what you know and can do. Today I countered $DEGO it's bad that I wasn't near the terminal when there was a breakout, I could have taken a long position on it.
Did anyone take longs today? There were many of them.
Well, will they at least give some profit at the end of the week? And why do all the good deals happen somewhere on the edge between despair and madness?
LOOK, the simplest trading system for entering a deal. 1. prolonged short trend 2. volumes increase but the price does not drop as significantly as at the beginning of the trend, this shows the reluctance of MM to let the price go lower 3. open M1 and look for a favorable price to buy only from the lower price ranges. 4. wait for profit, the main thing is not to overstay the profit but to fix it.
I MADE A PASS MONEY SAVED 😀 At night I wanted to open a Long at 0.70, I don't even understand how I can hold back, am I maturing for sure or getting older, who knows. Today you can buy cheaper, but is it worth it or is it too early, what do you think?