Today's inclusion of 'The Most Important Thing in Investing': What matters most is not worrying about market volatility, but being vigilant about the permanent loss of principal.
💡 Interpretation: Many people equate 'stock price decline' with 'risk', which scares them into a panic sell. However, Howard Marks incisively points out: the real risk is not the price fluctuations, but the possibility that the underlying asset value of your investment is permanently impaired, or even goes to zero. ● Volatility is temporary: Market sentiment and short-term news can cause prices to fluctuate wildly, but high-quality asset prices will ultimately return to their intrinsic value. As long as you can hold on, many 'paper losses' are just games on paper. ● Permanent loss is fatal: This means the fundamentals of the company you invested in have deteriorated completely (such as technological obsolescence, financial fraud, or a huge debt crisis), or you bought at an extremely crazy high valuation peak, resulting in a value that can never recover. Losses at this point are the real, irretrievable losses.
So the key is to distinguish between what is price volatility and what is permanent loss. For altcoins, many that have been on a downward trend may never recover because the speculators abandon them, leading to infinite issuance. In contrast, hard currencies like BTC, over time, will have their anti-inflation properties support the recovery of their prices.
This is my first video on Binance. Due to size and duration limitations, I have only shared a very small part this time. If anyone is interested, I will update the full version in batches. In the future, I will compress the video rhythm and content further. If you have any topics you would like to hear about, please let me know in the comments. I can share all kinds of hedging strategies, including spot, futures, options, etc. $BTC $BNB #加密市场观察
Bear Market Reading Preparation 'The Most Important Thing in Investing'
Today's Quote: The most important thing is not to buy good assets, but to buy them well.
Analysis: Even for very high-quality assets like BTC, Moutai, Apple, Nvidia, etc. If you buy at a very high price in the short term, it is also very difficult to make money, and the higher the price, the greater the potential drawdown you bear, and the lower the risk-reward ratio.
Therefore, for better safety margins and risk-reward ratios, regardless of the asset, a relatively cheap price is the most important. #加密市场观察
Many indicators show that the level of BTC is now approaching the bottom of the drop in April. However, there are several differences between this wave and the one in April, so we cannot simply apply the same old solutions.
1. In April, MSTR had hundreds of millions in buy orders every week, with at least 2,000 to 3,000 BTC in each order, which gave the market confidence. 2. At that time, the US stock market was also retracting, and MSTR's buy orders helped BTC stop its decline.
In this round,
On the institutional side, MSTR has run out of money, with weekly buy orders only a tenth of their previous strength, around 200-300 BTC, which is negligible. Additionally, the US stock market has not yet fallen, and this round has not started to kill valuations. BlackRock is definitely continuing to sell as well.
On the retail side, retail investors in South Korea, China, and even the US seem to have cooled off. I've heard they are still pulling money to rush into the stock market, leading to capital diversion, making it feel difficult to hold in the crypto market.
If we say that in the last round, the overall situation was good enough to maintain confidence at 80,000, can we still hold the same 80,000 under the current headwinds? This round may require a longer-term and more stable strategy.
Ark Labs' big surprise that has been brewing for two years is finally here, the Arkade beta version is officially online
Ark Labs has really done something big this time. After two years of closed development, they have finally released the Arkade public beta. To be honest, this might be the most anticipated scaling solution in the Bitcoin ecosystem since the Lightning Network. The entire solution is built on the Ark protocol, and the most impressive part is that it achieves virtualization of the Bitcoin transaction layer through the technology of virtual transaction output, without touching the consensus rules of the Bitcoin underlying layer. What’s even more exciting is that they have simultaneously launched the Arkade Assets framework. The goal of this thing is very clear: to bring all these stablecoin assets into the Bitcoin ecosystem. Just think about it, if USDT can run directly on the Bitcoin network, how many times would the entire application scenario expand?
The National Day holiday has been bustling, and the corrections that should happen still happen; nothing rises indefinitely. The counterfeit season index indicates that we have entered a correction period again. Those who are optimistic about the continued bull market should seize the opportunity to accumulate some blue-chip counterfeits and mainstream coins during dips. When the market improves, there will definitely be a wave of opportunities.
An interesting phenomenon, with the market trend coming in October, many veteran groups have turned into air force bases. Whether they are genuinely shorting is unknown, but I feel that to a large extent they may have collectively missed the opportunity. $BTC
In this round, Binance's system in F4 leads the way, far surpassing Sol and ETH. Within the Binance ecosystem, there is a form that originated from BNX, which is comparable to Pump. Just like Aster is comparable to Hype, the two most profitable projects in this round are Hype and Pump. On BSC, the counterparts are Form and Aster. So the question arises, does the trend of Form provide an opportunity? $FORM
Binance has truly entered the atmosphere this time, with the speed of new projects coming out comparable to meme coins, with 1-2 alpha releases every day, it just can't stop, it simply can't stop.
As mentioned before, the regulation of cryptocurrency has finally become more lenient and clear under the leadership of the United States. Entrepreneurs can now unleash their creativity; web3 is one of the directions with the lowest barriers to entry for startups. Traditional VC and industry valuations are too low, but in a place like the crypto space, valuations have increased significantly because it is an international market.
Binance is like the Berkshire Hathaway of the crypto world, and BNB is the passport to the Berkshire of the crypto space. With BNB, you can create pools on BSC, airdrop tokens, list on exchanges, and provide liquidity. BNB is not equity, and Binance will not directly manipulate BNB, but they will explore various ways to stimulate it and find buyers. In Binance's ecosystem, you will always need BNB, $BNB
Binance and BNB are known as the current pricing models in the crypto world, and this is certainly not an exaggeration. You need to test them out to see for yourself; if you come to Binance or Alpha, but you have no value, don't blame Binance users for smashing you.
The Hype project is good, but the short-term peak may have already appeared. Similarly, it’s still the Binance effect; if you play solo and hype yourself up, reaching hundreds of billions without accepting investments, then Binance will take its own path and directly roll up the entire contract track. Refer to JD doing delivery, Meituan being knocked down; Hype may have to take a long time to recover. The profit effect is shrinking under internal competition. However, this track is still very early, and it's unclear how big the cake really is; perhaps Hype can build a stronger moat after this battle. #永续合约DEX赛道之争
Invest in monopolies, invest in leaders, invest in business models with moats, invest in competitive corporate cultures. In such an emerging industry, BNB may be the on-chain Berkshire Hathaway.
It doesn't matter, everyone knows it's a value return, just gamblers picking up the tab.
AB Kuai Dong
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Sure enough, every time we encounter a situation where everyone is mining and trading new coins, the appearance of altcoins or VC new coins is inevitable.
In the past, among the 10 new coins on Binance's main site, none escaped.
The active funds originally used for the secondary market have all been locked.
In the blink of an eye, f4 has already entered a bear market for two days, one for sol and one for eth. btc and bnb have both retraced by 12%, with bnb being slightly more resilient, but it also seems to be experiencing some excessive retracement now, having dropped more than eth yesterday.
Compared to the US stock market, the crypto market seems to have a bit of a head start, as institutions are first abandoning unprofitable assets, and eth seems to have been caught in the crossfire. MSTR's situation isn't good either, as financing doesn't seem to be that easy; preferred stock financing is difficult to manage, and it hasn't entered the SP500, while this trend of data-driven narratives seems to have closed. So, what remains in the crypto market? #加密市场回调