I'm also in (slight) profit, but getting out would be rushing it for me. I'm still trying to build the short up one bite at a time.

EDIT My timing this round was just lucky. As soon as I closed the BTC hedging short, she got up a little. I didn't reopen it, but I replaced it with a short on BCH. Not of the hedging type, though...

One word.
SHORT.

I've been sweating my lastest, littlest, enteredlowest hedging short.

With the small price surge, it was getting uncomfortably further away from the green. Luckily, a spout of volatility brought the price even lower than it was before. As soon as I went green, I placed a stop loss limit order that would close the position while still in the green, and a lower (better) take profit limit order that would grant me a nice bag of change when closing. The stop loss hit first, so my profit has been half of what it could be.

Now I'm left with my baseline long - not hedged if it goes lower, but ready to rock with no hedging penalty if the bull run comes early. Playing wait and see, as usual.

TL;DR These leggy redheads aren't too bad if you approach them with caution and undue respect. The other women are just so... uh, ordinary.

Of course a chick like that will leave a few scars.
Worth every single one, as you say.
But if we learn our way around that tree,
we can turn back to a normal life with the other ladies
and still use her from time time.
No more crazy rides probably,
but she won't turn us down if we need a quickie.
Or two.

One thing that could help would be to make "bank runs" (moving physical bitcoin out of customer accounts) an easy, quick, hassle-free activity by design (in Bakkt internal rules) and by law (file under "investor protection", which apparently the SEC really, really cares for).

Indeed. I hope this could make them wise up before attempting swindles or dodgy rules. However, I am quite jaded about this, especially since from what I've understood until now, Bakkt's intended customers are mostly institutional investors and other big money kind of actors. These are unlikely to trust - or likely unable to use - real faceless decentralized platforms.

There must still be some room in Rosewater's cabinet.

It's possible that the money will run out for this round indeed.

However, give it some time. Wait for the apparent trend to invert - because of whaleplay, real life signals, or just plain tidal waves. The normies will come in like flies, and the MSM will be quick to remind them of past glories near 20k. There won't be enough rocket memes in the whole Internet then.

Yes we're going down. I wasn't expecting anything different for the new week, but I was hoping for a slightly more sizable run up before that.

My underleveraged short (< 1x) will be in the green soon.

Each time I close a short, the following high is lower. This makes me more and more cautious about opening a new short, but I did quite well to date. I'll be happy to pay when we break out of this pattern and the bull run starts.

We need some critical thinking to avoid the echo chamber effect. Some of us are taking turns carrying that heavy load on broad shoulders.

In other words: get the fuck out of here with your nonsense about sour pusses.  

That's the way I see it too, and that's what seems to be happening now. We could peak a little higher still, though.

On a separate note, I've updated bitcoind to v0.16.3 already a few days ago - as soon as I saw the soft warnings on the header here. Have we all?

Nice wakeup move. It might still be phony. I'm waiting for 7.5k for partial confidence. My SOMA prediction is it will deflate quickly, and we'll get the usual sideways or downward weekend.

Straight Off My Ass predictions - Almost always wrong, almost all the time!

Closer to the general vision here probably, but yours made for a more satisfying read emotionally!

It feels like whales are out for limit hunting. Shake down, wait. Shake down, wait. Shake down, wait. Shake up! The only way I know to get through times like this is to stay flat or to keep very small, underleveraged positions.

A couple days ago I've closed my short with a modest profit without falling for greed. Past lessons are paying out. Now I couldn't help reopening a small position and shorting a very tiny little at the local top. If it blows up, I'll gladly pay what's due when it reaches, say, 10-12k. My long will more than make up for it  

Long but interesting read, with facts and numbers.

Poor chap. Chased by a spooky bear toting giant red dildos. He's going to be scared shitless. In his place, I think I would.

Half-Barts rule the day on wimpy volume. Only the ramps show a little more trade.

Or maybe they (or their friends) are still accumulating. Justsayin'.

I also closed my short again, with a moderate profit. I only closed about half of it near the bottom. The other half was closed by a stop loss, still in the green but barely. Now my historic long is all that's left. Not sure I'm going to play another leg down when/if the corn gets above my previous short entry point: the wind might be changing sooner than I expected.