NattoRare
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NattoRare
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Something's in the Water Katılım Haziran 2019
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thoughts on retail trading - play at the tables that dont exist yet
(this is going to be a longer post as i have a lot of things i want to say)
i have been a dumb retail trader, i have been a sharp retail trader, i have worked at the peak of tardfi/kwant
at a high level you absolutely can be successful as a retail trader, but it comes down to find your edge + the discipline to stick to it
what is your edge as a retail trader?
time + curiosity + breadth + flexibility + reactiveness
you dont have more information than the mms/flow desks/algo shops. you will not be able to predict price on basically any timeframe better than them. that is dumb retail trading. you can argue for trading cycle tops/bottoms, but its harder to time than it looks. predicting price at any ltf is literally called "uninformed retail flow"
but you can spend all your time obsessing over one phenomenon/project/company, unlike the tardfi analyst who covers a sector. the more retail the product the better - the institutions have better supply chain data, they can call up the CEO and ask how hes feeling, but they are not using it, their friends aren't using it, etc
even finding it takes time/curiosity/flexible mandate, which someone who can't afford to waste time may not pursue
that is real edge you can wield as retail. in 2021/2022 i understood nft trading better than any institution. i would argue i understand perp dexes now as good/better than any institution. and there are people that understand memecoins much better than me.
but critically these are specific niches. my point is you cannot have edge on eth as retail - you can think tom lee is retarded, or everyone else is retarded, but you dont have more information than the aggregate market and at the end of the day you're just coinflipping
we are so lucky to live in an era where companies are bootstrapping by giving early adopters "equity". even just a few years ago, before airdrops became quite so big, my edge - "play with good new things" meant finding emerging markets with high onboarding friction and positioning early. now you can simply use platforms organically and be rewarded, you just have to pick the right ones.
that is your edge as retail, being your own best user, through personal experience understanding which platforms are good and which platforms are not (and it wont always look like perp dexes), and investing your time and energy early to position yourself for upside, whether thats earning points, buying the token, buying stock, etc.
play with the good new things
including an old thread i wrote about game selection
jez (equity perps era)@izebel_eth
Play Better Games poker is a fun game poker is a bad game we intuitively understand onchain has better r/r - hard to watch corey punt his nw @ tournaments during sol shitcoin szn but what makes a game good vs bad? -user sophistication -liquidity constraints -sync vs async
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@Innerdevcrypto anecdotally there's always a little bit of fear when first stepping into the idea of dissolving the sense of self, I think of it as a mental survival instinct of sorts.
Awakening doesn't mean you lose those roles IRL magically. Just that you perceive it from a higher plane. 🙏
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Our society is fully geared to avoiding the tough questions:
- ¨who am I¨
- ¨what is the I¨
- ¨what is consciousness¨
- ¨what is truth/absolute/god¨
- ¨what are we even doing in these physical machines endowed with consciousness¨
- ¨what is actually going on here¨
- ¨why are humans as crazy as they are¨
science, psychology, and all other ¨outer¨ disciplines have not gotten us and inch closer to any answer
that is why you turn inside
not to get conceptual answers...i mean...an answer in thoughts or concepts is nothing more than that...more thoughts and concepts
no....
turning inside...truly dissolving your sense of self, will lead to the realizations in your consciousness that in and of itself will provide the answer you have always been looking for...right in front of your nose
then there are no more questions
then you are always at home
then you finally did what so few humans ever do
then you have clarity
good luck
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@Innerdevcrypto In an internet space that responds highly to 'gotcha's and 'told you so's, kindness feels genuinely discouraged. Don't think anyone is making this happen, it's just that most don't think about the energy they put down on the timeline.
Kindness needs to be firmly placed in here.
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How hard is it to just be kind to others?
Sounds all soft and cheesy, but it is is not, realized that what most need is simply someone that listens to them once in a while, not just the superficial listening we all do in usual conversations with strangers or new people we meet, but really listening, being present, and being kind
We can all do this...I even do it online answering all these messages, but we are all the same species after all, be a bit patient and kind and understanding to others, really no that hard
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If you spend any amount of time on CT, you would think everyone working a 9-5 is a miserable slave to “the man.”
Meanwhile while the people telling you everyone with a full time job is miserable are chronically online, wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth to every 2% drop in the market, replying 500 times a day to people they don’t know just for the chance of being noticed by the guy who has 100k followers (75k of which are bots or dead accounts) and is actively trying to scam them, or yelling into the void that their airdrop they “worked hard for” was not what it should have been….
All of this is taking place while MANY of “9-5 slaves” they denounce are enjoying life and don’t care about your streamer coins going to zero.
cryptoleon@cryptoleon
I am in that stage of life where I need to decide whether to live a life in a 9-5 job and never become happy or Take risks and have a chance at making my dream come true Seems like an easy decision?
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@Innerdevcrypto Alternative theory from when I was peeking beneath the curtains: they're also out of money and there's less ROI running reputation ruining shills 😂😂😂
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Exchanges, platforms, coin scammers, influencers, promotors, rug-pullers, mostly stopped offering me stuff recently. I guess they finally figured out i will never cave
Lesson in there: stay strong in the face of toxic shit long enough and eventually the toxic shit will leave you alone and move on
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