Mr. Anderson

Everyone screaming “this move has just begun” is ignoring reality. #Bitcoin bottomed in November 2022. Since then, it’s already done an 8x. We are not at the start. We are much, much closer to the end. If we’re lucky, there are one or two more glorious pushes left. But that’s it. This is the stage where traders either: -lock in legacy gains, or =get drunk on euphoria and hand it all back. The truth? The bear always comes. And when it does, it won’t be a dip. It’ll be a 12-month purge designed to rug every late believer. So settle down. Get serious. Mark your invalidations. Respect your levels. Be ready to seize the subsequent one or two runs… Enjoy whatever form of Alt-season we get and then brace yourself. Because when the rug finally gets pulled, only disciplined traders will survive the dark side of this cycle.

Perspective is everything. The S&P 500 is up nearly 18% from its March low, and people call it vertical. Bitcoin is up about 22% from its March low, and people call it muted. One is considered euphoric. The other is considered weak. Anyone who held the weak during this time outperformed the "euphoric" index. And that is using the friendliest comparison for the S&P. Use February 6th, and Bitcoin is up about 32% while the S&P is up about 9%. Price moves. Then people decide whether the move fits the story they already wanted to believe. Good traders do not get paid for naming the move. They get paid for reading the location, reaction, and acceptance, and for staying with the price while the crowd argues over what to call it and why it happened.

Teach your children how to be happy, not just how to be rich. Money can tell them the price of something. Only wisdom can teach them the value.

The past does not care how many times you replay it. Accept what happened. Then put your energy into what is still yours to change.

The middle of the range is where bad trades are born. Edges are where decisions get made. The middle is where people invent reasons. If you want clarity, trade where something actually matters.

Mom used to say, "The wrong one will find you in peace and leave you in pieces, and the right one will find you in pieces and lead you to peace."

Bitcoin is now poised to test the 200-day EMA/SMA for the first time in 184 days. This area matters, but not because the 200s are magic. Because after price stays stretched away from them for that long, the move into them is often the easier mean-reversion trade. What comes next is usually the harder part. In past cycles, Bitcoin has often spent 20, 50, even 100+ days chopping, traversing, and faking out around this zone before the next cleaner move revealed itself. Historically, Bitcoin often does not just tap this area and cleanly move on. It tends to spend time negotiating around it. Occasionally, price bursts straight through. Sometimes it rejects fast. But more often than not, this area becomes a high-timeframe decision zone. That’s why I look at the 200-day EMA + 200 SMA less as two lines and more as a zone the market has to prove itself in. A lot of the time, this area turns into a real battle zone, where sharp moves, fakeouts, squeezes, and repeated traversals can all show up before the market finally reveals its hand. The touch gets attention. The behavior around it is the real signal.

Trading is mostly a mind game. If you cannot control your emotions, you will never control your risk. If you cannot control your risk, the market will control you. Protect your money. Follow the plan. Master yourself first. After that, the charts get a lot easier.

Crypto madness will come again! It will be epic! Will you be there?

DISCIPLINE You do it when you feel like it. You do it when you don't feel like it. You do it no matter how you feel. Get out there today an do it.

Money is a tool, not the goal. The goal is freedom. Always remember that.

Gratitude changes everything. It shifts you from, “Why don’t I have more?” to, “Wow… look at what I’ve been given.” Suddenly: • Stress lowers • Relationships deepen • Sleep improves • Joy returns You don’t need a new life. You need a new lens; gratitude.

Most people won’t dedicate 3 years to building their own dream… but they’ll dedicate 40 years to building someone else’s. It’s not patience they lack, it’s perspective.

You woke up today. Most people rush past that like it’s nothing. Before the stress, the bills, the noise, and the problems, there was already a gift. Another day. Another breath. Another chance to live better than yesterday. Don’t miss the miracle because you’re busy counting the burdens.

DEF is tracking anti-DeFi amendments. Ahead of the Senate Banking Committee markup of the Clarity Act, Senators submit amendments to be considered and voted on. Importantly, not every amendment will be considered, which means we have a timely opportunity to urge Senators to oppose amendments that could harm DeFi technology, developers, and users. Here are the amendments you should ask your Senators to oppose*: ➡️ Amendment #16, Senator Cortez Masto. [Re-writes the BRCA to turn it from a shield to a sword against developers] ➡️ Amendment #17. Senator Cortez Masto. [Strikes protections for non-controlling developers in Section 302] ➡️ Amendment #22, Senator Cortez Masto. [Strikes protections for non-controlling developers in Section 301] ➡️ Amendment #24, Senator Kim. [Expands the definition of a “financial institution” in 31 USC 5312 to include digital asset businesses] ➡️ Amendment #27, Senator Kim. [Expands BSA/AML obligations and certification requirements for "covered businesses" to “prevent illicit finance” through decentralized financial services platforms] ➡️ Amendment #32, Senator Van Hollen. [Expands application of criminal code to DeFi developers who publish, distribute, deploy, administer, or constitute code that “facilitates” crime or who act with “reckless disregard for a substantial risk” the DeFi trading protocol is used in connection with a violation of 1956, 1957, 1960, or 2339C] ➡️ Amendment #33, Senator Van Hollen. [Prohibits publishing, distributing, deploying, or constituting a DeFi trading protocol “for the purpose of facilitating” a violation of 1956, 1957, 1960, or 2339C] ➡️ Amendment #67, Senator Warren. “...would exempt certain software developers identified in the White House digital assets report and address vulnerabilities to protect national security” ➡️ Amendment #69, Senator Warren. “...would define financial institutions under anti-money laundering law” ➡️ Amendment #70, Senator Warren. “...would establish tailored anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism responsibilities for certain DeFi front-ends” ➡️ Amendment #71, Senator Warren. “...would establish tailored anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism responsibilities for certain DeFi businesses” ➡️ Amendment #72, Senator Warren. “...would establish tailored anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism responsibilities for certain DeFi businesses” ➡️ Amendment #73, Senator Warren. “...would close the tokenization loopholes” ➡️ Amendment #89, Senator Reed. [Direct attack on Van Loon - 5th Circuit federal court decision - by subjecting smart contracts to sanctions “without regard to whether such contracts operate autonomously, can be modified, or are owned”] ➡️ Amendment #92, Senator Reed. [Expands the application of the BSA by broadening the definition of "financial institution" to include digital asset companies and developers] ➡️ Amendment #94, Senator Reed. [Eliminates BRCA from Clarity Act] *The amendment text is not yet public. Bracketed language is DEF’s description based on text the DEF team reviewed; language in quotes is the Senators’ original description, which suggests a threat to DeFi. The DEF team will keep track of these amendments during Thursday’s markup, and will share updates on X. Stay tuned!

🚨Scooplet: Following the submission of more than 100 amendments to the Clarity Act by Senate Banking Committee members last night, @fund_defi is tracking what it describes as “anti-DeFi amendments” that it says would harm DeFi technology, users and developers, and is urging supporters to lobby senators against them ahead of tomorrow’s markup. According to DEF, the amendments come from Democratic Senators @CortezMasto, @AndyKimNJ, @ChrisVanHollen, @SenWarren and @SenJackReed and collectively target core DeFi protections in the bill including the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA), protections for non-controlling software developers, DeFi front ends, tokenization provisions, and expanded BSA/AML obligations for developers and digital asset businesses.

Defense first. Offense second. Risk keeps you alive. Reward makes you rich. You are not here to win every battle. You are here to survive the war. The market pays patience. It punishes desperation.

Most traders think improvement means adding more. More tools. More setups. More data. More opinions. Usually the breakthrough comes from removing. Remove the noise. Remove the bad habits. Remove the need to predict. Remove the trades that were never yours. That is when the chart gets quieter.