What $RIVER has done recently is not normal market behavior. One look at the daily chart makes that obvious. A move from below 3 to above 50 in less than a month isn’t just aggressive upside, it’s a distortion. When a price multiplies this fast, it usually stops being about trend strength and starts becoming about instability.

Moves like this are rarely powered by steady demand. More often, they happen in thin liquidity zones where price can be pushed easily, or during phases of extreme speculation. The chart may look exciting, but excitement and safety rarely exist together in crypto.

Trading something in this condition is closer to betting than strategy. The risk of a sudden exhaustion move is very real. Price can collapse in a fraction of the time it took to rise, with no clean structure to protect late entries. Stops may not trigger where you expect them to. Slippage becomes your enemy.

This is where most traders lose discipline. Green candles trigger urgency. Logic gets replaced by hope. That’s usually the moment the market punishes impatience.

If someone insists on participating, it should only be with capital they can mentally afford to lose, sized so small it doesn’t matter emotionally. But calling this an investment would be dishonest. At this stage, it’s speculation in its rawest form.

Capital preservation matters more than catching a headline move. The market doesn’t run out of opportunities, but accounts do.