Von Ventures

Beautiful… it’s the paradox of life Dostoyevsky highlights in The Idiot - “I am a fool with a heart but no brains and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.” Have the humility to understand you will always move the “goal post” if you don’t stop, be, and enjoy what is before you right now.

never lose sight of how fake this twitter shit is + all social media Plato's allegory of the cave...too many people have this as “reality,” with life on the edges. has to be the other way around: a vibrant life with this as sideshow affects young people way more since they don't have the life "reps" to recognize the true rhythm of it all -- (2/7) if you don't know better, this shit can easily make you depressed, or feel inferior, envious, worthless...as if everyone else "has that shit on" and you don't it just isn’t reflective of real life at all. EXAMPLES: ~99.9% of pros underperform the benchmark/index. that includes everyone on here (myself included) but you'd think it's 0%. ~90% of businesses fail, or something like that…never happens online, no idea what happens to all those VC investments on here or LinkedIn the main one is love relationships/family. -- (3/7) the guys I know in real life who are doing a damn good job at adeptly balancing the "juggling act" of life -- building/running businesses, wife and kids, taking care of their own parents, reading a lot, all of that -- they will tell you the same thing: "I am stretched thin as fuck, and this is REALLY hard." even then, there's always a ball failing to be juggled - usually their own well-being (physical/mental health). I try to be a good friend in reminding them...if you lose THAT, it’s a wrap. all the other "balls" fall to the ground. you gotta take care of yourself. like Tolstoy wrote...the great man becomes a slave to history. After the Grande Armee took Borodino, it was marching on Moscow whether Napoleon lived or died...ditto the inevitability of getting Berezina'd lot of men in high place are essentially slaves behind the scenes, in no control of their life..."plow horsed" as a friend put it...not a free second is theirs. I know guys who avoided this thru self-discipline and firm boundaries, but its rare many who you think are happy, feel like they're in a prison with no bars - the only way out is for something to "break" (career, marriage, expense structure etc)...this is life after 40 for many men. -- (4/7) online, like, you don't see that...seems like shit is a breeze. perfect career, marriage, kids, no issues, no divorces, etc this just isn't consonant with real life. REAL LIFE IS HARD. Relationships are hard, business is hard, family is hard. Don't take my word for it, ask a 50-60 year old who you know in person. It's hard and as a man it organically gets harder as you age, things just seem to magically appear and land squarely on your shoulders. "Comparison is the thief of joy" and people find new methods of envy in their 40's/50's, new ways to benchmark themselves vs others. It never ends...just changes shape. -- (5/7) this wasnt meant as calendar commentary although around holidays the whole "why is everyone but me happy" tends to hit people who dont know better homie...the human condition is nothing more than "a chronic inability to be happy in the present," for real. I have so many friends who will even say, "I KNOW I should be happy right now but I'm just not." Schopenhauer has an incredible analogy in WWR vol 2: "...happiness lies always in the future, or else in the past, and the present may be compared to a small dark cloud driven by the wind over the sunny plain; in front of and behind the cloud everything is bright, only it itself always casts a shadow." just another way of saying "be present," which we never are. -- (6/7) think of like, Valentine's day. when you're single you're sitting there like, damn, everyone else is happy except me. then the next year when you're in a relationship, you're sitting at some overpriced restaurant, and all you're thinking is "I would chainsaw my fucking dick off to be single right now." Kierkegaard said it best... "If you marry, you will regret it; if you do not marry, you will also regret it; if you marry or do not marry, you will regret both." This is the only truth. Everyone else is just talking their book. Everything in life has tradeoffs, there are always alternate paths you will contemplate having taken, regrets, what ifs...the imagination is a mf, and it never lets us find a day without worries or anxiety. -- (7/7) don't fall for the bullshit. don't let social media fuck up your emotional well-being, don't take any of this posturing too seriously. you can tell who has a vibrant real life and who doesn't on here by how they act - for many people, this IS their life. think of the people you respect on here - they dont criticize others nor do they let criticism bother them...like "bro you can launch nukes at me all day, I do not care" - you only see insecure people sweat that shit. remember..."if you live by their compliments, you will die by their criticism." -- (END) READ BOOKS. they are the only place that the truth about existence can be found, esp the old books. the true rhythm of life and human nature has never changed, and it never will. once this is understood, you will that most of what you see around you is just a circular firing squad of bullshit, a mirage, shadows on Plato's cave... always be genuinely happy for people who are happy with their circumstances, bc that shit is rare - but I’ve usually found that those aren’t the people sharing every millisecond of their life online and telling you how to live your life. the happy are just happy, fulfilled, present. they're at peace, blissfully enjoying the good times while they last, paying no mind to others...and definitely feeling no need to impress their life choices upon you. as for the ones doing all the posting... To put it simply, they are hoping to persuade others, of what they themselves wish to be persuaded of.

@Jeppez420 Interested to hear your thoughts on the volatility at the open. BULL goes limit up (reclaims VWAP) and struggles above $30 before going limit down. Looks like you added as VWAP was being tested again. I'm assuming risk was to range lows?

+$146k record intraday trade on $BULL Decided earlier that I wouldn't touch it anymore... But looked so bullish consolidating between $56-58 that I just couldn't stop myself from not taking another long on it. Now done for real

@TraderMercury Accepting disproportionality means accepting that you’ll always be wrong to some extent—whether by missing moves or being caught on the wrong side. Many prefer the illusion of control, staying constantly exposed to the markets, even if it costs them their edge.

markets are disproportional. traders spend 100% of their time waiting for the rare times where the market is extreme "there are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen" the majority of the market is not extreme, nor irrational. it is mostly constructed of sideways movements to build value in areas over time yet people inherently only have the ability to think in extremes; 'black or white'. when in reality, the market consists of mostly 'grey' the volatile expansive periods, be it higher or lower, are infrequent over time, and especially in crypto, you'll find that ~80% of your gains come from ~20% of the time that you spend trading markets -- this is not a statistic, but based on concept called the 'pareto principle' which means there's a necessity to capitalize on the fruitful environment, so that you're not the person trying to force their success during the drought periods in the market (usually as an attempt to overcompensate for not having extracted 'enough' when it mattered) the key is mastering the 'grey-zone' which plays into the other side of the 'pareto principle' -- where 80% of your efforts will only account for ~20% of your gain unfortunately though, markets are not linear, so that excessive effort often does not even lead to something gained, but rather more likely: drawdown in your portfolio as a result of chopping yourself up, strain on your eyes from watching the charts religiously, intracranial pressure from the crippling anxiety you've developed as you eagerly await for the market's next major move, and trauma from the unsatisfactory results you've achieved even with having hyper-fixated on the market. markets are disproportional, but they are also cyclical. I'm not referring to the concept of 4-year cycles when I say this; I'm more so referring to the idea that those left feeling unsatisfied during the exciting periods will always feel the desperate urgency to compensate for their discontent after opportunity has diminished. and as a result, will always lack the ability to achieve the results they desire during the fruitful periods due to the hinderances stated above this cycle has the ability to repeat, ad infinitum which means that in order to break the curse, you must know how to extract value AND how to mitigate excessive losses stemming from boredom or envy; for it's the ones that know how to navigate the 'grey-zone', that find themselves basking in glory during extremes the best way to do that, in my humble opinion, is by achieving balance; and this is where my long-form post gets even more cliché than it already is but it's a shame that any advocate for a balanced approach to markets is met with pitchforks. a mob of angry followers demanding calls for either $100k #Bitcoin or 0. anything else is clearly a hedge, and a blatant attempt from the poster to boast superiority regardless of market direction thereafter it's truly a shame, but the saying goes: "social approval is the enemy of clear-thinking", and clear-thinking is the enemy of social approval balance is not just a necessity for approaching markets, but all things in life. a few examples include: - poor health stemming from inadequate work-life balance - an ecosystem imbalance eventually leading to animal extinction - a ship that is not perfectly balanced will sink so 'balance' is a crucial part to the universe, and markets are not an exception a small example, relevant to today's market: people will tell you to go touch grass during the boring periods (black), or berate you for not catching every 3% move (white), when you could simply opt to stay in-tune with the market, without obsessing over every miniscule movement (grey) that's just one example, but this concept branches off into all things market-related so find out what "balance" means to you; and along the way, you'll find peace. goodluck🖤

@owen1v9 God speed 🤝🏾

@EdgeSimps @donalt @zachxbt I agree with your sentiment. I respect all of you and have learned a lot through your posts. It's disheartening when the top of the top feel pressure to prove something (not that that's the case but I'm under that impression sometimes).

@von_ventures @donalt @zachxbt Can you elaborate? Didn't follow from what was trying to be conveyed to your response.

And people shit-talked me for shit-talking this trash Good to have numbers to what we all knew in the first place

@EdgeSimps @donalt @zachxbt Who do you expect to be on your side if you're in the 99th percentile as a thinker/trader?

@donalt @zachxbt ngl Don; and I know you don't care; but it seems like you're ready to take your leave off CT. Why stick around if this space makes you feel like shit. Just up and leave; set sail into the sunrise or w/e with your fortune and don't look back.

@wizardofsoho Accessing hyperliquid in the US?

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@EdgeSimps Go read some of the greatest works of literature - for me, it's the Russian authors (Tolstoy + Dostoyevsky). This same problem shines forth in many of the characters, it's a problem as old as time. People went to war chasing glory/prestige and found misery. Life is about more...

I'm sorry to say; or happy to say... whichever it is... crypto isn't my life anymore, but I haven't really figured out what is. Before you guys fast track your finances, figure everything else out first. You don't want this crippling existential terror an idle mind can lead to. I was honestly happier poor in my current state.

can't wait to get liquidated on this

hmmmm

$TRU

Everyone forgot about $STX all of a sudden?

$CFG

$CREDI

Betting big on RWA doing well into the end of the year. Deploying most of my liquidity into the following names and turning the screens off for the summer. $MPL

Nice strength from $GFI, adding to my spot bags.

V nice reaction from $GFI

@outpxce "When faced with insurmountable odds, remember: the greatest battles are not fought on the battlefield, but within the chambers of the heart and the recesses of the mind."