Here’s 12 brutal mistakes I made (so you don’t have to))
Lesson 1: Chasing pumps is a tax on impatience Every time I rushed into a coin just because it was pumping, I ended up losing. You’re not early. You’re someone else's exit.
Lesson 2: Most coins die quietly Most tokens don’t crash — they just slowly fade away. No big news. Just less trading, fewer updates... until they’re worthless.
Lesson 3: Stories beat tech I used to back projects with amazing tech. The market backed the ones with the best story. The best product doesn’t always win — the best narrative usually does.
Lesson 4: Liquidity is key If you can't sell your token easily, it doesn’t matter how high it goes. It might show a 10x gain, but if you can’t cash out, it’s worthless. Liquidity = freedom.
Lesson 5: Most people quit too soon Crypto messes with your emotions. People buy the top, panic sell at the bottom, and then watch the market recover without them. If you stick around, you give yourself a real chance to win.
Lesson 6: Take security seriously - I’ve been SIM-swapped. - I’ve been phished. - I’ve lost wallets.
Lesson 7: Don’t trade everything Sometimes, the best move is to do nothing. Holding strong projects beats chasing every pump. Traders make the exchanges rich. Patient holders build wealth.
Lesson 8: Regulation is coming Governments move slow — but when they act, they hit hard. Lots of “freedom tokens” I used to hold are now banned or delisted. Plan for the future — not just for hype.
Lesson 9: Communities are everything A good dev team is great. But a passionate community? That’s what makes projects last. I learned to never underestimate the power of memes and culture.
Lesson 10: 100x opportunities don’t last long By the time everyone’s talking about a coin — it’s too late. Big gains come from spotting things early, then holding through the noise. There are no shortcuts.
Lesson 11: Bear markets are where winners are made The best time to build and learn is when nobody else is paying attention. That’s when I made my best moves. If you're emotional, you’ll get used as someone else's exit.
Lesson 12: Don’t risk everything I’ve seen people lose everything on one bad trade. No matter how sure something seems — don’t bet the house. Play the long game with money you can afford to wait on.
7 years. Countless mistakes. Hard lessons. If even one of these helps you avoid a costly mistake, then it was worth sharing. Follow for more real talk — no hype, just lessons.
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Many believe the market needs trillions to get the altseason.
But $SOL , $ONDO, $WIF , $MKR or any of your low-cap gems don't need new tons of millions to pump. Think a $10 coin at $10M market cap needs another $10M to hit $20? Wrong! Here's the secret
I often hear from major traders that the growth of certain altcoins is impossible due to their high market cap.
They often say, "It takes $N billion for the price to grow N times" about large assets like Solana.
These opinions are incorrect, and I'll explain why ⇩ But first, let's clarify some concepts:
Market capitalization is a metric used to estimate the total market value of a cryptocurrency asset.
It is determined by two components:
➜ Asset's price ➜ Its supply
Price is the point where the demand and supply curves intersect.
Therefore, it is determined by both demand and supply.
How most people think, even those with years of market experience:
● Example: $STRK at $1 with a 1B Supply = $1B Market Cap. "To double the price, you would need $1B in investments."
This seems like a simple logic puzzle, but reality introduces a crucial factor: liquidity.
Liquidity in cryptocurrencies refers to the ability to quickly exchange a cryptocurrency at its current market price without a significant loss in value.
Those involved in memecoins often encounter this issue: a large market cap but zero liquidity.
For trading tokens on exchanges, sufficient liquidity is essential. You can't sell more tokens than the available liquidity permits.
Imagine our $STRK for $1 is listed only on 1inch, with $100M available liquidity in the $STRK - $USDC pool. We have: - Price: $1 - Market Cap: $1B - Liquidity in pair: $100M ➜ Based on the price definition, buying $50M worth of $STRK will inevitably double the token price, without needing to inject $1B.
The market cap will be set at $2 billion, with only $50 million in infusions. Big players understand these mechanisms and use them in their manipulations, as I explained in my recent thread. Memcoin creators often use this strategy.
Typically, most memcoins are listed on one or two decentralized exchanges with limited liquidity pools.
This setup allows for significant price manipulation, creating a FOMO among investors.
You don't always need multi-billion dollar investments to change the market cap or increase a token's price.
Limited liquidity combined with high demand can drive prices up due to basic economic principles. Keep this in mind during your research. I hope you've found this article helpful. Follow me @Bluechip for more. Like/Share if you can #BluechipInsights
Still holding the entire swing short. After fractionalized entries, the overall average sits at 95.6K. I plan to hold this down to the absolute minimum target of the yearly open (87.6K).
Reasoning is simple. We had an external range high hunt, reversed back into the range, and are now testing a local trend line with untested liquidity below. As stated multiple times before, at the naked lows we’ve not stopped out any longs, but rather accumulated long liquidations.
As long as BTC remains below 95K and shows acceptance back into the range, sub-90K is next. This may take time to develop, and the entry may be revisited multiple times.
One thing is certain: if I’m right and BTC trends lower through 2026, Ido not want to be trading the drop. Levels will break easily, liquidity will be grabbed aggressively, retests will be shallow, and overall these are not favorable conditions for trading.
I’m sticking to my plan. I’m prepared to take a loss if 112K is hit. Nothing will be closed until 80K is tested. My plan is clear. My thesis is clear. Above 112K, I am wrong, and I will admit it.
Note: Apologies for the large watermark, people have been copying my posts, so from now on everything will include one.
BREAKING: Bitcoin falls -$2,000 in minutes as $360 million worth of levered longs are liquidated over the last 60 minutes.
Bitcoin is back below $87,000, now down -9% in 48 hours.
Bitcoin has dropped $4,000 in the last 24 hours and $1 BILLION worth of longs have been liquidated. Bitcoin is down $11,000 in last 7 days. $BTC #bitcoin
I think it’s important to clearly outline what we’ve seen develop over the past few days.
We experienced a strong push above the range highs.
At the time, this appeared to be a genuine breakout to many participants. I, however, was anticipating a swing failure, the formation of a lower high, and a retrace back into the range, hence why I scaled into shorts. That said, let’s assess the market objectively.
After 2 weeks of compression, CPI acted as the catalyst that pushed BTC from ~93K to ~98K. In doing so, price swept a significant amount of supply, deviated above all major highs, and filled the weekly imbalance. However, the key detail is that the weekly candle closed back below the range highs. This was the first clear warning sign. That close represented clean acceptance back into the range.
Bulls attempted to continue higher, but momentum failed. Sellers stepped in decisively, and the market revealed its hand. This is not what healthy upside continuation looks like, quite the opposite infact. As always, I’m not concerned with consensus opinions. I’m evaluating price action objectively.
So what does this rejection tell us?
It tells us that bulls are not in control. The market is weak, and the broader structure remains firmly bearish. I highly doubt this is a "bait resistance before higher" type of setup. You don’t typically see a full bullish range breakout completely fail and re-enter the range, only to then push higher again. That behavior is far more characteristic of re-distribution before continuation lower.
From here, if BTC fails to hold the 90K level, a move toward 86.8K becomes highly likely, along with a test of the yearly open at 87.6K. I’m still holding my full short position and sticking strictly to an objective plan. That said, it would be prudent to gradually take partial profits, as we’ve already captured roughly a 5% move.
On HTFs, I remain confident in my bearish thesis. I’m targeting sub 85K and potentially sub 70K over the coming months, which is why holding this position serves a larger purpose.
There is a scenario where price pushes back toward the 93.6K area (the 2025 yearly open). That outcome is plausible if 90K holds, but it’s not something I’m targeting, planning around, or hedging against. The absolute maximum upside I see from here is around 94K, and even that would simply be a reaction into prior range highs, not a shift in bias.
Until structure changes, I remain short. I do not care about roundtrips as stated, I am sticking to my plan.
Most altcoins are trading with a daily RSI below 50, signaling selling pressure.
In addition, the 24h Liquidations / Open Interest ratio is elevated across much of the market, indicating that a large number of traders have been liquidated over the past 24 hours.
A typical deleverage and market stress environment. $ETH
A very valuable lesson was learned over the past week by those who paid close attention...
Always stick to your plan, no matter what. 🤌
$BTC below $90K again. Sentiment has flipped back to fear.
Volatility doesn’t always mean structure is broken.
How are you managing this phase?
Bluechip
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$BTC
I remember bringing this up a few days ago regarding the current price action, specifically the lack of swept lows, which is something we haven’t seen in quite a long time.
Typically, when BTC is ranging, we see multiple liquidity sweeps on both sides of the range. The same behavior appears near major turning points: when a top is forming, price often sweeps the highs several times, and when a bottom is forming, we usually see repeated sweeps of the lows first. This exact mechanic is what traps liquidity an makes traders capitulate positions.
This time, however, price has been grinding higher in a very gradual manner while leaving behind numerous untested lows. From a psychological perspective, larger players and market makers usually step in after multiple liquidity hunts. These hunts serve to de-leverage the market and trap additional shorts.
In this case, we haven’t swept any significant lows, yet price continues to slowly move higher. The previous lower range also failed to exhibit the usual characteristics of multiple liquidity hunts, which is somewhat unusual.
This raises an important question: if the lows haven’t been hunted, then either:
We are so bullish that market makers are unwilling to give participants the opportunity to scale in near the lows, or
Liquidity is being built at the lows before a larger breakdown, especially considering the market was significantly de-leveraged during the 10/10 move. Pushing price higher restores bullish sentiment and increases market leverage, setting the stage for a potential reversal.
As mentioned before, 93K and 90K remain extremely important levels. If we begin to break down and lose 90K decisively, it would strongly suggest this was a failed rally, with 70K becoming a likely target. Until these levels are lost, we are technically not bearish on the LTF.
The Fed has started to move and the numbers are worse than you think
$105 billion was injected into the system within weeks. But here’s the dangerous detail: most of it is MBS (weak collateral), not Treasuries.
The bigger picture:
U.S. debt: $38.6 trillion Interest costs are eating the budget Foreign demand for Treasuries is collapsing China is injecting 1.02 trillion yuan at the same time Gold and silver at all-time highs this is a direct rejection of sovereign debt. Markets are ignoring it for now, but history says: ignorance doesn’t last.
2000, 2008, 2020 same signals, same outcome. The problem: the Fed is cornered, with no easy solutions. $BTC
Starting to see a lot of people complaining tariff news and Trump.
Stop being a losers.
You were on the wrong side. You read the market wrong. The news was already priced in, and you stayed bullish when the chart was screaming caution. That loss wasn’t tariffs, Trump, or headlines, it was your inability to read what was right in front of you.
News doesn’t move markets. It gives weak traders something to hide behind after they’re already wrong.
It’s a post loss coping mechanism, not a cause.
And like clockwork, here you all are again, blaming headlines instead of your own bad positioning. Same excuses. Same outcome.
Peace $BTC 🤌
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