IncomeSharks
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IncomeSharks
@IncomeSharks
Stock and crypto, analysis & predictions. Be careful of impersonators. Trades/education on Slice: https://t.co/HKRP4lGWFN. Free newsletter @dailytradr
CryptoWorld 가입일 Aralık 2015
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Getting rich usually involves big bets, and asymmetric risk (exactly what trading + early crypto did for many people).
On the other hand, staying rich requires almost the opposite: diversification, boredom, and sitting on your hands. Protection mode.
Someone who 5–10x’s their net worth in a bull market, then keeps the same leverage and same size (if spot --> never sells) into the next cycle instead of derisking. Yep, you guessed it, they prob will round-trip it all. Losing 50% when you’re worth 100k is painful but survivable, but losing 50% when you’re worth 10M is life‑changing.
So, you get rich once on a certain risk profile, but if you keep that degen risk profile, you can wipe yourself out once or twice, or even 5x times (depending on how many times you try).
Making a lot of money in, e.g., one bull cycle, one asset class, one type of trading style can make people think they’re in God mode. They then take that confidence into areas where they don’t have an edge: perp trading (as an example, we saw this with the meme boys, who lost their money trying a game they had no skills in when meme liq was zero after Trump, Feb 2025).
The behaviour that made you rich is often highly path‑dependent: a specific cycle (usually bull), focusing on a specific inefficiency, certain types of trades, etc.
But by the end of 2025, for most people, that edge was gone. If you don’t adapt, your old playbook can become a liability where you lose it all. Many people only realize their edge is gone after a big drawdown (think 10/10 last year).
Either you are good at making money, or you are good at protecting money. Very few are good at both and are the ones that survive cycle after cycle. Cockroach mode.
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@TheRealEstateG6 Yet so many in America do not own any. This is why we have such a larger separation between classes. Those that are investing are staying further ahead than those that don't have enough or don't know how.
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@Leo_Traydes Right at ATHs, still holding a hedge which has kept me from smashing it which if I didn't have I would have sold a lot more positions so I'm happy playing it safe.
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And just like that everyone is out of puts and back into calls. This is wild to watch.

The Rock Trading Group@The_RockTrading
Everyone is buying call options. Everyone.
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@APompliano Basically just got to keep hitting the snooze button and then when it finally collapses you start WW3 for real
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@R89Capital Yeah I don't agree with him at all on this one. People need purpose, he's the richest person in the world and he's still struggling to find purpose and happiness.
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Good lesson next time with Oil is to watch the US companies, and ignore the timeline. They were pumping before the conflict, and they were selling off before it ended.

IncomeSharks@IncomeSharks
$XOM - The US oil companies started pumping months before Iran. Now they are selling off. I'll trust them over the millions of opinions on X.
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Well OIL at least listened and followed the 2022 playbook. I was wrong about that historically leading to a stock sell off as it's done in the past though.

IncomeSharks@IncomeSharks
$OIL running back the 2022 playbook. Spike, dip, run it back near the top and make a lower high, then a slow bleed the rest of the year.
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$SPY - Think it's safe to say we are seeing things play out differently. Energy fractals all still playing out the same, but my prediction that stocks would follow as they historically have was wrong. Good news about being wrong here, is getting upside and making money.

IncomeSharks@IncomeSharks
$SPY - There's the bounce exactly where the fractal said it would be. And it's taking us right to that $670 level. I don't want a repeat of 2022 so I'd love to start seeing some things playing out differently.
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@elonmusk You saved me a lot of money a while back with your comments on Lidar. I sold some stock in a company that was big on it and they got absolutely crushed.
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