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The Psychology of Stock Market Cycles📕 Bitcoin isn't quietly marching to new all-time highs right now. Instead, it's reliving the agonizing psychological playbook of every past bubble: the intoxicating rush of greed gives way to denial, then anxiety, fear, and finally gut-wrenching despair. The "hopefools" clinging to narratives of endless upside are about to face the harsh reality check.....the kind that wipes out portfolios, shatters illusions, and leaves only the battle-scarred survivors. Stay vigilant, stay prudent, perhaps curious, but most importantly, stay beautiful.💫 Yours truly, The Great Martis🦉

GOLD 🪙 SILVER **Updates** Gold broke above 4900 and held. It now challenges the next major psychological level of 5100 .... the key level if it is to re-test all time highs in the near future. If it fails here, further consolidation is needed and it risks heading back down toward the trendline. Silver simply needs to break above 90 to recapture the trendline. If it fails, a lengthier correction is likely, with a retest of the recent lows possible. A break above 90 brings 103 into play. The next few days are critical.

Nasdaq. ✨ The potential drawdown is around 50% if the box shown is breached. Yesterday's candle was concerning. This rare, majestic broadening top pattern will most likely play out. The most brutal wave inside broadening patterns is the one that precedes the fifth touch. Frisson of anticipation

Gold ✨ Silver Updates. Keeping it simple. Gold MUST hold its major trendline (4530). So far, it sits in the safe zone. Silver needs to hold above 80; otherwise, 71 comes into play. Silver’s primary trendline sits at 60. Both continue to hold their golden zones.

US president Trump announces trade deal with India with a tariff of 18%.

The new STT rule does not really punish risk. What is punishes is a small, and often systematic edge. Here is how Imagine two traders - 1. A retail trader who trades occasionally. Say he bought 1 lot NIFTY at 100, and sold at 120. 2. An algo or HFT person or scalper. His trades are usually like buy at 100, sell at 101. For the first person, his P&L is 20x65 1300 Rs. STT as of now is 8 Rs, after the hike it will be 12 Rs. Even then it is very small compared to the overall P&L. For the second person, the P&L is 65 Rs. The increase in STT of 4Rs is a 6% drop in P&L per trade In short - this is not going to punish retail YOLO trading. What it might render unviable is - High frequency - Low per-trade edge - Large gross turnover relative to net P&L