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@DudeWhoInvests bunch of comments saying the dad just got lucky and while that could be true, most people dont put themselves in a position to get lucky in the first place

I can’t stop thinking about this

@kylieinvests @lBattleRhino doesnt matter if hype is consensus among crypto nativew since being bullish crypto is contrarian in itself

@end837 @lBattleRhino ?

I keep seeing people say man everyone is apathetic we gonna run the bull back so hard time to lock in. Are none of you concerned eth / sol barely eclipsed prev cycle aths, btc clearly demonstrating diminishing returns cycle over cycle with saylor holding inordinate amount, quantum threat, only interesting narratives exist in tradfi etc etc Could go on, same reasons i spoke about when derisking last year. Serious question, does none of this concern you when you’re blindly parroting that the next cycle is gonna make ppl “so fkn rich”. Sure there’s always asymmetric opps that come up to make money on but holding spot majors hasnt felt worthwhile for a long ass time. Curious on thoughts from people still bullish the space going forward

@BrianTycangco any idea why local ph diesel price is down 40% from the highs 3-4 weeks ago?

For anyone paying attention, we are entering the 3rd month of the war. 59 days of 20m barrels a day no longer in the supply chain. That’s about the time it takes for a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) to sail from the Persian Gulf to Asia. The region will soon be fighting over every last available barrel of oil to import from other countries. First came the price spikes. Next come the shortages.

fairly convinced that we get lower prices in crypto within the next few months, although it looks like we could squeeze to the low 80s in the short term, r/r isnt good enough for me to long so bored theres nothing to trade and i have 0 clue how to trade tradfi

yea cause jeeps and buses can fly and skip all the traffic and i am 100% sure it takes less time to park and drive vs taking a bus/jeep/MRT if you include the time it takes to wait in line for a ride as well as the stops and if traffic is the issue here (which it's not, it's about people who don't have the privilege of taking private transpo hating on people who do) then we should just tax diesel and gasoline 100%. traffic in manila has gotten way better since the hormuz situation, we should just keep the high prices

@end837 It's not about character flaws, just simple math applied to public spaces. But hey, good luck sitting in traffic.

I have an older friend who went to Ateneo in the 80s. She lived in Dasmariñas Village, and she took the bus to and from Diliman. During my time—yes, I am *that* old—even some of the better-off students knew how to commute. How are these scholars unaware of the everyday commute?

@colossusmag Hyperliquid

This is the story of Hyperliquid, the most profitable startup per employee on earth, told from a guarded office in Singapore. Last year, its team of 11 generated $900 million in profit. It's 3 years old, has never taken a dollar of venture capital, and is beginning to change how century-old markets work. Its founder, Jeffrey Yan (@chameleon_jeff), had never taken a physics class when he picked up a textbook at 16. Two years later, he won gold at the International Physics Olympiad. In 2019, he started trading with $10,000 from a living room in Puerto Rico—working off a television because he didn't own a monitor. Within 3 years, he was running one of the largest anonymous crypto trading firms. Then he shut it down. Yan was rich and free, but he had spent years inside crypto, watching it betray itself. Bitcoin's central premise was decentralization. Yet the biggest exchanges were centralized. Crypto kept reintroducing the dependence on trust it was built to eliminate. He set out to create what should have existed. Hyperliquid is a blockchain with a trading exchange on top, and anyone can build on it. Yan's vision is to house all of finance. In 3 years, it has done over $4 trillion in volume. And in the past few months, it has begun to outgrow crypto. Markets for oil, silver, and the S&P 500 now trade on Hyperliquid around the clock, weekends included, and are growing roughly 40% week on week. When the US and Israel bombed Iran on a Saturday in February, Hyperliquid was the venue traders turned to. Hyperliquid's success has cost Yan his freedom. He works out of a secret office in Singapore and cannot travel without two bodyguards. Even the team's housekeeper doesn't know what they do. In January, @domcooke spent a week at their office. Read his profile on Yan and @HyperliquidX below.

@real_y22 was fun following your previous challenges. gl, i hope you win

𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 888888$ to 8888888$ doing a trading challenge again. third time's a charm little bit of context: did a 100k-to-1m trading challenge on twitter from summer to winter in 2024. took me 119 days to complete (was prime conditions back then). highest multiple was 5x, it was done with sound risk management rails and 100+ trades, no big outlier wins or big kingmaker trades and no airdrop money or any form of monetizing my social media. that was my prime. i was max focussed, followed protocol, brushed off mistakes quickly and got back on track fast after setbacks. shortly after completion of this challenge i off-ramped a bit of money and started a second one. 500k-to-5m challenge, every trade in public wallets and logged in my telegram channel because twitter suspened my acc. ran from december 2024 and stopped in august 2025 with a balance of around 1.5m. it was a failure. the first couple of months went stellar and i quickly tripled my money (again on sound risk management, no excessive risk) but then things started to derail. i took bigger risks, i stopped following protocol, i let trades run longer than necessary and i got sloppy on logging changes. then destiny struck in form of the alt5 sigma and wlfi trades..some of you remember. i got blinded by greed and oversized horribly. was wounded badly and all went downhill from there. in the months that followed i had trouble processing this loss and i could not find my way back. my trading went more and more shizo (pasternaks finest soldiers remember), i overtraded a lot and took low conviction setups instead of being patient. still made some bank here and there and ended the year 2025 breakeven but was mentally wrecked. started drinking and fell into depression. spend everyday reminiscing of what could have been, torturing myself. bottom line: i could not handle operating a 7-figure portfolio at that time and i had deficits in emotional control that went under the radar previously. i invested a lot of effort, time and money to work on these problems (thank you M for the help) and now i am rdy to try again. why am i doing this? my best performances were always while trading in public. i like the pressure, the accountability and it prevents me from doing stupid things when i know people are watching. also this space is full of larps and liars who give people a false impression of what it really means to trade fulltime. i want to give an unfiltered insight into this journey and hope others will follow and we bring a bit of the old glory of CT back. where people had the balls to put their money where their mouth is and respect was only granted to those who had skin in the game and stood their ground in the arena. the only real downside of doing this sort of public challenges is the risk of anchor bias due to fixed targets. i am aware of that, but in my case i think the benefits outweight the negatives. shooters shoot. going full Cortez mode again, the boats will be burned. everything that can be sacrificed will be sacrificed. i will move to a fresh tax haven where i don't know a single soul, to lower my tax rate from 16% to 8%. will spend as much time as possible in front of the screen and try to push myself to the maximum. majority of my money will be in the markets again, no big safety nets and no plan B. either let me fly or give me death. no inbetween. every trade will be logged (entry, exit, size) and will be facilitated on public wallets as much as possible. end of every quarter i will crunch the numbers and publish a summary and an equity curve. i am using the same template as in my first 2 public trading challenges. the progress bars start at 10% instead of 0% so that eventual negative balances can be displayed. 0% is 0$, 10% is starting point and 100% is 8888888$. comments will either be disabled or not read. the reasons for this are two-fold. first i want to fade out all the hate and clowning of mistakes that is a sad byproduct of stepping out under the public eye and second because i want to be alone with my thoughts and not get influenced by the opinions of others. i am immensely grateful to my community that supported me and had my back so many times. i truly appreciate all of you, much love. but now its time to be alone with myself and focus on the path. please bear with me. 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: 888888 USDC 𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐔𝐌 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫: 888888 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐫 (𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝): ▮▮▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯ 10% 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐫 (𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐏𝐧𝐋): ▮▮▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯ 10%

its the same picture

the success rate of going out to the streets is ridiculously low and regime change will likely not be of any help anyway tbh we r far better off worrying about ourselves and the things we can control vs trying to change the govt when status quo will remain the same whoever is in charge

33.4k likes, let's go out on the streets and say we're not gonna settle for this!

tangina the philippines is cooked (politically, geographically, economically, culturally, totally)

@goodkidbikecity thanks!

@end837 x.com/i/status/20354…

The oil analysts on Twitter now say $220 is pretty much guaranteed

@katexbt @maykelbelts the willingness to take on debt at ridiculously high rates is very common in the ph. private lending companies are everywhere and charge 2-4%/month mostly to individuals and SMEs

TIL modern slavery is happening today in 🇵🇭 @maykelbelts did a very comprehensive report on how it works. Predatory loan helped by AI profiling to identify who is in "need" of such loans the most. Horrible.

@BrianTycangco what is the best way to short the philippines

Philippine peso is likely to breach 60 to the US dollar before the end of March. If the Iran War escalates further, we could see 61 to 62 very quickly.

everybody says this but after 2.5 months of lifting 3x/week and light cardio 2-3x/week after previously doing close to 0 exercise my life has not changed at all nor do I feel like a better person

new best lookin chart just dropped

@ChrisWillx how exactly was cognitive performance tested?

You don’t perform on 6 hours sleep. One of the most important sleep studies ever ran a brutally simple test. People slept 4h, 6h, or 8h per night for 14 days. No all-nighters. Just “normal” short sleep. Cognitive performance was tested every two hours. By day 14: 6 hours = same impairment as being awake for 24 hours. 4 hours = same as 48 hours awake. But here’s the scary part – after day 3–4, people stopped feeling more tired. Reaction times kept slowing, attention lapses kept increasing, working memory kept degrading. But subjective sleepiness flatlined. Your brain keeps getting worse, your ability to notice it breaks. This is why chronic undersleeping feels sustainable – you adapt to feeling tired but you do not adapt to being cognitively impaired. The participants would’ve told you they felt “okay”. Objectively, they were functioning like they’d pulled an all-nighter. If you’re sleeping 6 hours and think you’re fine, you’ve probably lost calibration. Sleep need is biological. Most adults need 7–9 hours. “I only need 6” usually means “I forgot what normal feels like.” Feeling fine is not evidence you’re functioning well. Chronic sleep loss doesn’t just impair your brain – it blinds you to the impairment. — h/t @aakashgupta

why is this the best looking chart

u can kinda tell who on twitter are successful traders and who are larps based on their reaction to the dalio article