Rotten Crypto
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@scottmelker It means you are spending a lot of time in the digital world. Spend time where it matters……..family………nothing but love.
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Earlier this week, Bitcoin had its second–biggest one-day gain since the October ATH. ETF flows hit $258 million - the largest daily inflows in weeks - and price jumped from $62,553 on February 24th to $69,953 on the 25th. That’s an 11.83% move in roughly 29 hours, adding more than $7,000 with no earth–shattering catalyst behind it.
It doesn’t officially rank as one of the largest single close-to-close gains since 2017, but it’s in the conversation. And when you look at history, the biggest up days and the biggest down days share one trait: they are violent. +15% days. −20% days. Even −39% in a single session during March 2020.
Here’s the point - the one people forget at exactly the wrong time:
Bitcoin is capable of making very big moves, very fast.
For those wondering, there was no major policy shift this week. No breaking stories. The most “news” was speculation about Jane Street and a decent day in legacy markets. That’s it. Bitcoin just… does this. After periods of compression, the pressure releases.
Now ask yourself: what if that candle happens three more times over the next few weeks? $70,000 to $78,000 to $88,000 to $100,000, with no clean pullbacks and no orderly entries - just expansion after expansion.
Would you feel positioned? Or would you feel like the price ran away from you?
Sitting on cash waiting for perfection in an asset that trends upward over time isn’t financial planning - it’s gambling. And portfolios don’t get wrecked because the thesis was wrong; they get wrecked because the magnitude of the move was underestimated.
And this is just Bitcoin. Ethereum moved nearly 19% in the same 29–hour window. The further you move down the risk curve, the more extreme those swings become. Using leverage on Bitcoin is already risky. Doing it elsewhere borders on insanity.
The goal isn’t to predict every candle. It’s to structure exposure so you can survive volatility and still participate in expansion. Dollar-cost average. Keep dry powder. Avoid forced losses. Accept that you may never get your perfect entry.
When Bitcoin is at $250,000 and climbing, your buy at $70,000 won’t haunt you because you missed $60,000. What will matter is that you were on the boat.
Bitcoin rewards those who own it - and more importantly, those who can hold it.
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