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[death_wish]

I rather prefer losing +80% of my networth holding btc than losing 10% in fiat due to inflation.

Either I'm genius or I got severely dropped on my head as a baby.

I would rather put it like this:

You prefer to risk potentially losing all of your money’s value by holding money that’s really yours, money that is destined to change the world—money that will make you terrifically rich if it succeeds in making the world a better place, which it probably will in the long term.

You prefer that to letting a corrupt bank dictate to you what you can do with “your” so-called “money”, i.e. fundamentally worthless scrip that has been the biggest scam in all of history for the past half-century.  Arguably longer.  But let’s not even reach the point of discussing history before the Nixon Shock.

Can’t find it now searching my fast-growing post history, but I recall somewhere having observed this:

Bitcoin is an idea of such a nature that it is destined either to take over the world, or to die.  Either-or.

I know which side I want my money on.

It is still young.  Still small.  Short-term price movements are ultimately meaningless.

[DaRude]

If bitcoin keeps falling soon it won't be enough to just hold BTC. Every holder will have to buy a miner and make it work at home. Because falling under $ 17 000 will force many miners to turn off their equipment. Those who mine with S17 and pay $0.1 per kilowatt lose $1.2 every day if 1 BTC costs $ 20 000.

Oh my God... I just had this terrible thought... This could lead to a sort of negative feedback loop!  Ahh, what could we call it... an "abysmal spinning down".  No too clunky.  Umm, a "deceasement loop"... nah deceasement is not a word, is it?

I don't know... someone could come up with a good name for it.

How have we never thought of this before?

...death spiral ?

When people started talking about a death spiral in 2018 the bottom was in.

This is from December 3, 2018. It's by a University professor of finance "expert".

https://www.ccn.com/worthless-bitcoin-has-entered-death-spiral-finance-professor/

Silly professor

Only if there was some kind of automatic procedure to change the hardness of the puzzle every two weeks or so depending on the supply/demand for mining  

Lots of gamblers selling BTC, lots of people buying BTC meh world moves on. Fill up your bags and hunker down in about 638days all global miners will work for 10min for just BTC3.125 if my math is right about 50kg of gold is mined every 10min globally or about $3MM worth

[BobLawblaw]

I hope bitcoin crashes to $0 and it dies a fiery death. I will consume all of the popcorn that is available in a 100-mile radius from where I live. It will be a glorious event.

I hope it crashes to $0.01 tomorrow, so I can buy everything the market throws at me.

[death_wish]

I hope bitcoin crashes to $0 and it dies a fiery death. I will consume all of the popcorn that is available in a 100-mile radius from where I live. It will be a glorious event.

I hope it crashes to $0.01 tomorrow, so I can buy everything the market throws at me.

I don’t begrudge PokestarFan the type of Hopium desperately needed by jealous nocoiners.  (Have fun coping when the dip is over.)

I hate him for making me send merit to Bob.  (Bob, you owe me a new keyboard; coffee and keyboards do not mix with sudden laughter.)

[dragonvslinux]

I laugh at TA, and I declare that Bitcoin is good as gold.  See my prior posts on gold’s worst bear market.

Good, hopefully you will stop losing money by over-leveraging yourself long in a bear market like a clown then. Not going to look at your previous posts no, that's what the scrolling function is for.

I think that you saw my prior posts just fine.  I started drawing an analogy to the gold market 11–12 days before I see you just did, in numerous posts here.  To the best of my knowledge, I originated that comparison in the context to this crash.  I was certainly the first to raise it in WO.

Credit where due.  Don’t pretend you didn’t see it.

Clearly you think most people read all your posts, clearly you are very wrong as per usual. I would have you on ignore if it weren't for JJG replying to you with massive block quotes which would make it ineffective. If I could ignore you and anyone who respond to you (in this case myself included, apologies WO folk), I would very happily do so.  Congratulations to you if you were the first to raise the alarm though, seriously.

How long it would continue-who knows. All TA is irrelevant now, sorry, and so is trying to decide when to buy.

What about TA with less price prediction and more statistical data based on yearly MAs? Or at least my attempt of presenting it...

What about TA is astrology.  Stop believing in it.  You have the attitude of a gambling addict, who declares that his special variation of Martingale will really, really work this time, if the strategy is tweaked and the lucky rabbit’s foot is rubbed extra-vigorously.

You seem to be projecting your emotions here, especially the gambling addict part. You're the one who lost their Bitcoin due to being a degen gambler, not me. I would feel sorry for you, but you made your own bed so it's best to lie in it, with or without or incessant rambling or BTC. Most of my analysis was based on statistical data, much less technical projections, something you clearly overlooked.

Protip:  I also used TA.  That’s what got me wrecked, just as much as the minor detail that it was TA on leverage.

Oh dear, sounds you used TA as a form of disciple, the crystal ball of all your answers, n00b mistake my non-friend. News flash: TA are theories, not outright guarantees. You got rekt because of poor risk management, nothing else. Any decent analyst knows they only need to be right 50% of the time to double their money, based on using good risk reward ratios such as 4:1.

TA didn't get you rekt, you got yourself rekt. Take some responsibility ffs. If you'd only bet 10% of your trading account, you'd have only lost 10% and you wouldn't have been rekt  

• But by the sound of it, you're trading account wasn't 10% of your stash, but 100%.
• Your trade wasn't 10% of your account, but 100% (like a degen)
• You could of lost 1% but instead you decided to lose upto 100%

Your crude “analysis... based on statistical data” is not in the league of quantitative finance.  It is pure gambling based on using past performance to predict future results.  Past performance does not guarantee future results..

Oh dear, you're making the same mistake over and over again it seems, thinking that TA guarantees future results. Theories don't guarantee anything, you have to use your own risk/reward analysis without forgetting good risk management.  If as a degen gambler (which you are) you aren't capable of this, then it's best to just stay away from this. Trading isn't for everyone, especially degens like you it seems.

Do I seem vehement?  Excessive belief in TA could cause a Bitcoin death spiral.  One by one, TA bottoms fail:  The 200 WMA, the prior cycle top...  The failure is what causes loss of confidence.  Those who disbelieve TA are now the ones with the most confidence that Bitcoin is fine.  I am vehement, because one thing that can hurt Bitcoin is more bad predictions, which can be true only if lucky.  If unlucky, the result is another round of panic.  That is bad for Bitcoin.

Actually, I think I did a decent job at pointing out how the whole "death spiral" theory is relative nonsense. I'm sure there were many who thought Gold would drop to $100, $10, even $1 in the 80s, based on TA, once it's decade long bull market ended. Clearly, they were all wrong, because the fundamental inflationary aspect of Gold remained strong..

You don’t know the difference between inflation and deflation, yet you wish to opine on the market?

Seriously? Next you'll be telling me Bitcoin is deflationary when it clearly is inflationary (at present). DYOR

I assume you're confusing rate of inflation with inflation here, it's a common mistake it seems.

Without even realising it you are engaging in technical analysis; trying to prove there is a technical reason for a so-called "death spiral", and therefore completely ignoring the fundamentals. A death spiral means an asset dies, clues in the name, which therefore ignores it's fundamental value.

No.  My proposition of Bitcoin’s fundamental value is partly based on expectations of mass-adoption, on network effects, and on Bitcoin’s mindshare:  The Bitcoin brand.

BTC bulls tend to fixate on the supply side.  “Supply” is only one part of “supply and demand”; a hardcapped supply is meaningless, without demand.  My view of Bitcoin’s long-term prospects is generally optimistic about future demand, but I recognize that that demand could be threatened in various scenarios.

Every time someone draws a magical line on a chart and says “this will be the bottom”, that damages Bitcoin’s brand when BTC crashes through the line.  It is causes panic and loss of confidence.  That, itself, is damaging to Bitcoin’s value fundamentals.  Confidence is important to any currency.  Note well that the more credible “death spiral” theories (beyond dumb FUD) focus on scenarios where mass loss of confidence in a currency enters an accelerating feedback loop.

Here, my analogy to gold’s historical bear market cannot be overextended.  Bitcoin faces competition from new Bitcoin-like instruments, or in many cases what the public may wrongly perceive as Bitcoin-like instruments.  Gold does not have this type of competition.  Mass loss of confidence opens the way to competitors—not only from garden-variety shitcoins, but government-backed CBDCs or otherwise government-approved “crypto” that seeks to replace the concept behind Bitcoin.  Evil Hat(TM) likes that scenario.  And it is a scenario that fundamentally falls into the category of, “It’s possible for the public to be just too dumb for Bitcoin.”

See also my previous posts about how years ago, I urged slower growth so that Bitcoin could develop a sufficiently robust market from organic adoption before the challenges brought by institutional investment.  Yes, I will refer to my prior posts.  If you are an illiterate fool who proudly claims to scroll by the cogent presentation of excellent insights (but later rips them off), that is not my loss.

Yawn. TL:DR seriously.

[Biodom]

What do people think contributed most to Golds 20 year bear market ?

Disinflation due to digitization, cheap China (at that time) labor force, computer "revolution" (straight deflation in the prices of computers and components). Same for TVs.
check out computer prices:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/06/22/cost-of-a-computer-the-year-you-were-born/36156373/

I remember a colleague in the early 90ies buying pre-Jobs Mac for $3.5-4K. Not limited to macs, see the reference.
Memory had CRAZY prices too.

[dragonvslinux]

What do people think contributed most to Golds 20 year bear market ?

If not 10 years of over-speculation to the upside, It could have been re-installed faith in fiat currencies, despite the fact they were still effectively worthless, but doesn't look that way.

The fact that the S&P made a new high in 1980 after an 8 year bear market can't be a coincidence though. Money better placed elsewhere? GOLD vs SPX back then:

You opine in total abject ignorance of all of the many political and economic happenings in the 1970s–80s, many of which affected the gold market in various directions.  You reduce it to searching for magical lines on a chart, which you declare “can’t be a coincidence”.

Yes, I'm saying that investors went for S&P that had recovered from an 8 year bear market, selling off Gold that was completely overbought and had made investors considerable profits by then.  Is it a coincidence that investors bought something that had started a new uptrrend, as opposed to buying something that had started a downtrend?  Do you seriously think investors make choices based on their emotions, or what's currently trending to the upside, based on risk vs reward?

You think the price of Gold vs S&P is a magical line? It's called a price comparison. It's not magical, it's simply based on investors buying and selling two different assets. There is no magic involved I assure you.

The equation is: [Gold] divided by [S&P] = "Magical line". Let me guess, you think all price charts are magical lines, so it's nothing more than a comparison of magical lines?

Need to stop wasting my time with such degenerate clowns  

Whaddya think about the London gold cartel and paper manipulation ?

Not much. Price went down didn't it?

[empowering]

When BTC was created ... no one in a regulatory position, knew what it was.

Now, there is some consensus that it is not a security.... good stuff I agree.... well done clap clap... did they come to that conclusion after a few (lazy) hours of consideration... have a fucking medal.

Now there is this conversation about "altcoins" or certain altcoins, and if they are "securities"

HOT fucking take.... they are not the same as securities in my opinion..... and attempting to force these new tokens/technologies, into the same bracket as "securities" is a desperate attempt to maintain a status quo.

A status quo, that is old, and outdated , as per status quos.

Proposition: regulators, take their lazy thumbs out of their fat lazy asses and do some fucking work, and create a new framework that takes into account the new technology and what it is and stop trying to cram it into their neat little control box.

SAME for BTC really, it does not fit into any of their neat little old antiquated control mechanisms boxes.


Actually, I find it kinda pathetic how both regulators, and maxis, try and make it so.


BURN IT ALL FUCKING DOWN.... get up to speed, the legacy system is antiquated trash, walled garden, control mechanisms, and I wish it all to die.


Wake up, it is a brave new day.


What is good for the goose is good for the gander.


Watching people use the "ewwww only BTC is not a security and all altcoins are securities" reeks to me of old, power hungry stinky old bastards.

[empowering]

I need a nap.


Get cranky wen no nap.


 

[Biodom]

The equation is: [Gold] divided by [S&P] = "Magical line".

I remember reading somewhere (Prechter? lol) that gold always comes back to be about 1:1 with the Dow.
The last time it happened was in 1980.
Gold and Dow both at 15K at some point? It's possible, I guess, but it would be a somewhat dysfunctional world, imho.
Dow and bitcoin at the same price point? Very possible in the midterm.

My expectation after a real bottom is a rally to 50week MA, currently around maybe 43K, but declining.
From where? it is a big question and you provided excellent possibilities. Gold went to ~300, then back to ~500.
Bitcoin "should" bounce harder.

[HI-TEC99]

If bitcoin keeps falling soon it won't be enough to just hold BTC. Every holder will have to buy a miner and make it work at home. Because falling under $ 17 000 will force many miners to turn off their equipment. Those who mine with S17 and pay $0.1 per kilowatt lose $1.2 every day if 1 BTC costs $ 20 000.

Oh my God... I just had this terrible thought... This could lead to a sort of negative feedback loop!  Ahh, what could we call it... an "abysmal spinning down".  No too clunky.  Umm, a "deceasement loop"... nah deceasement is not a word, is it?

I don't know... someone could come up with a good name for it.

How have we never thought of this before?

...death spiral ?

When people started talking about a death spiral in 2018 the bottom was in.

This is from December 3, 2018. It's by a University professor of finance "expert".

https://www.ccn.com/worthless-bitcoin-has-entered-death-spiral-finance-professor/

Silly professor

Only if there was some kind of automatic procedure to change the hardness of the puzzle every two weeks or so depending on the supply/demand for mining  

Lots of gamblers selling BTC, lots of people buying BTC meh world moves on. Fill up your bags and hunker down in about 638days all global miners will work for 10min for just BTC3.125 if my math is right about 50kg of gold is mined every 10min globally or about $3MM worth

The grizzled investors mentioned in that article got it right by following your strategy and buying at $3k.

with an eye on the bitcoin price and an eye on the calendar, grizzled investors can offer a brief reply: “We’ll see.”

[empowering]

Whaddya think about the London gold cartel and paper manipulation ?

Not much. Price went down didn't it?

That was the idea methinks

[ChartBuddy]

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[death_wish]

I laugh at TA, and I declare that Bitcoin is good as gold.  See my prior posts on gold’s worst bear market.

Good, hopefully you will stop losing money by over-leveraging yourself long in a bear market like a clown then. Not going to look at your previous posts no, that's what the scrolling function is for.

I think that you saw my prior posts just fine.  I started drawing an analogy to the gold market 11–12 days before I see you just did, in numerous posts here.  To the best of my knowledge, I originated that comparison in the context to this crash.  I was certainly the first to raise it in WO.

Credit where due.  Don’t pretend you didn’t see it.

Clearly you think most people read all your posts, clearly you are very wrong as per usual. I would have you on ignore if it weren't for JJG replying to you with massive block quotes which would make it ineffective. If I could ignore you and anyone who respond to you (in this case myself included, apologies WO folk), I would very happily do so.  Congratulations to you if you were the first to raise the alarm though, seriously.

An idea was recently, repeatedly published by me in a venue that you regularly read.  It evoked some discussion from others—some of whom quoted various parts at length.  This has been ongoing sporadically for about 12 days.  It was not even one little post that could plausibly be missed by someone reading WO in this time period.

In the past, you have expressed an irrational personal dislike for me.  Now, you claim not to have seen what I wrote after you poorly aped its substance.  That is not credible.

Yes, I am calling you a liar.  Not surprising:  I first heard of you when you were shilling for the DeepOnion scam.  Today, I see that your paid signature advertises Wasabi Wallet—the new version enhanced with spying and censorship.  You are a known dishonest character.

TA didn't get you rekt, you got yourself rekt. Take some responsibility ffs. If you'd only bet 10% of your trading account, you'd have only lost 10% and you wouldn't have been rekt  

• But by the sound of it, you're trading account wasn't 10% of your stash, but 100%.
• Your trade wasn't 10% of your account, but 100% (like a degen)
• You could of lost 1% but instead you decided to lose upto 100%

I didn’t start by risking 100%.  I started with a reasonable risk, then walked myself down the garden path to a catastrophic risk.  This has already been discussed—especially with Jay.  I obviously made some terrific mistakes, but you do yourself no favours by misrepresenting me as a clueless degen who suddenly threw all of his money into a leveraged long.

I don’t expect for you to read all the stuff about my personal finances—that, I understand may be uninteresting to many people.  But if you wish to opine on the subject, it would behoove you first to review the prior discussion.  If you opine without first informing yourself, that itself reflects poorly on you.  If you don’t want to spend time reading all those posts, then do not offer an opinion.

Oh dear, you're making the same mistake over and over again it seems, thinking that TA astrology guarantees future results.

FTFY.  The metaphor is sound.  I have pointed out before that professional astrologers make numerous accurate predictions, then rationalize failures.  Blaming believers for believing is one means of such rationalization.

By contrast to your tier of TA, which is just pitching the woo, quantitative finance is sound in theory.  A large part of quantitative finance is the quantification of probabilities that predictions will fail.  When you make a prediction with your crude lines on a chart, exactly what numerical % probability do you assign to that?  A quant always has such a number, which is necessary to calculate hedges and stop-losses—and in many cases, to manage a portfolio with some monstrously complex equation derived from the Kelly Criterion.

In a prior post, I drew the analogy that TA is to astrology as quantitative finance is to astronomy.

Do I seem vehement?  Excessive belief in TA could cause a Bitcoin death spiral.  One by one, TA bottoms fail:  The 200 WMA, the prior cycle top...  The failure is what causes loss of confidence.  Those who disbelieve TA are now the ones with the most confidence that Bitcoin is fine.  I am vehement, because one thing that can hurt Bitcoin is more bad predictions, which can be true only if lucky.  If unlucky, the result is another round of panic.  That is bad for Bitcoin.

Actually, I think I did a decent job at pointing out how the whole "death spiral" theory is relative nonsense. I'm sure there were many who thought Gold would drop to $100, $10, even $1 in the 80s, based on TA, once it's decade long bull market ended. Clearly, they were all wrong, because the fundamental inflationary aspect of Gold remained strong..

You don’t know the difference between inflation and deflation, yet you wish to opine on the market?

Seriously? Next you'll be telling me Bitcoin is deflationary when it clearly is inflationary (at present). DYOR

Don’t strawman me.  In the above context, which I deliberately did not snip, “deflationary” is sensible—“inflationary” is not.  You conflated the two words.

If you are an illiterate fool who proudly claims to scroll by the cogent presentation of excellent insights (but later rips them off), that is not my loss.

Yawn. TL:DR seriously.

Snipped to a Tweet-sized portion, so as to fit into your brain.

[dragonvslinux]

The equation is: [Gold] divided by [S&P] = "Magical line".

I remember reading somewhere (Prechter? lol) that gold always come back to be about 1:1 with the Dow.
The last time it happened was in 1980.
Gold and Dow both at 15K at some point? It's possible, I guess, but it would be a somewhat dysfunctional world, imho.
Dow and bitcoin at the same price point? Very possible in the midterm.

I see what you're getting at Gold/Dow, but really that ratio above 0.5 looks like a fake-out not much else. I only really see lower lows and lower highs, though more upside than downside at present.



Dow & Bitcoin returning to 1:1? Looks possible, but I personally wouldn't look too much into it, as too short a time-frame for these type of value comparisons.

My expectation after a real bottom is a rally to 50week MA, currently around maybe 43K, but declining.
From where? it is a big question and you provided excellent possibilities. Gold went to ~300, then back to ~500.
Bitcoin "should" bounce harder.

I'm personally not looking at the 50 Week MA when it comes to a dead cat bounce. In 2019 this was at $5.5K and price cut through it with ease. After initial support followed by anticipagted rejection, it has never acted as strong resisance for any bear market bounce. It's only really been useful for confirming a bear market, as opposed to maintaining it. You can do your own DYOR, but you'll see what I mean, all the way back to 2012. Bitcoin is simply just too volatile to be respectful of the 50 Week MA when it comes to a bear market dead cat bounce, or continuation of a bull market.

Personally, based on 2019 bear market dead cat bounce, the 0.618 fib retracement @ $13.4K acted as perfect resistance level. Currently with a low of $17.5K this gives an equivalent target of $49K. Even if price drops to $12K, this still targets $47K, as the percentages don't vary so much. Most people will think these prices are unlikely in a bear market, just as many thought $14K was unrealistic back in 2019.

[death_wish]

I mean.... ya should not be getting REKT, LEVERAGE or NO LEVERAGE , given effective analysis, bank roll management, AND risk management.....

Jus my two cents.

Ya will not be getting REKT, if ya keep your coins in your wallet where they belong, exclusively controlled by your own private keys.

I wrecked myself by not following the advice that I had previously given others.  I was right all along.  I told me so.

If I had followed my own advice, then I would now be smiling just like I was in previous crashes.  It is not my first time around the block here—it is my first time losing money in a cryptocurrency bear market.

That said:  As I have told Jay, I do recognize that there exist trading scenarios where properly risk-managed leverage makes sense.  I have given some examples of what I see as such a scenario.  They are completely beyond the abilities of any newbie—which is why I have made such a big deal of the don’t use margin message.  Indeed, it was an obvious part of my original motive for my first post here in May.  What else would sufficiently justify embarrassing myself by exposing my losses? Atop that, a place to grieve without further burdening my friends is just gravy.

[dragonvslinux]

An idea was recently, repeatedly published by me in a venue that you regularly read.  It evoked some discussion from others—some of whom quoted various parts at length.  This has been ongoing sporadically for about 12 days.  It was not even one little post that could plausibly be missed by someone reading WO in this time period.

As I said, if could put you on ignore and those that respond to you (discussions with yourself) then I would have. This should really tell you something here; I'm really not that interested. Following WO is different from reading it. I very rarely read all of WO, especially long-winded discussions, usually I'm scrolling for graphics and charts and don't bother reading into various boring discussions, especially yours.

In the past, you have expressed an irrational personal dislike for me.

Care to reference this? I once enquired to others about putting you on ignore. This doesn't mean I dislike you, only that I'd prefer to ignore you. Not convinced I ever expressed dislike for you...

Yes, I am calling you a liar

Honestly, I really couldn't care less whether you beleive that I read all your nonsense or those that reply to you. Your ego clearly prevents you from understanding that not everyone is interested in what you have to say.

If you were making references to Gold's bear market, as I said, good for you. I did so purely in the context of Yearly MAs, so unless this is what you did, I clearly didn't rip you off what-so-ever, even if i did read what you had to say (which I didn't). If you also think you're the first person to reference this, you're clearly very naive and more arrogant than I thought. It's been referenced for years already, by myself as well as many others.

If you are an illiterate fool who proudly claims to scroll by the cogent presentation of excellent insights (but later rips them off), that is not my loss.

Snipped to a Tweet-sized portion, so as to fit into your brain.

Thanks for simplifying that. I'm almost certain none of your insights are based on excellence, so there is no loss here.

[vapourminer]

jeez...sub $20k corn...what a blessing. I knew there had to be some positive news out there after a few days into hiking...I fell off a cliff and broke my leg. LOL. I am an idiot sometimes...

Anyways....been recovering this last month and a half....ankle is a bloody wreck..ripped most of the tendons and ligiments along with the fractures.....great.

sorry to hear that. keep healing man.

at the rate us WOers are taking damage we will need to have homer make us some wheelchair avatars.

[empowering]

I mean.... ya should not be getting REKT, LEVERAGE or NO LEVERAGE , given effective analysis, bank roll management, AND risk management.....

Jus my two cents.

Ya will not be getting REKT, if ya keep your coins in your wallet where they belong, exclusively controlled by your own private keys.

I wrecked myself by not following the advice that I had previously given others.  I was right all along.  I told me so.

If I had followed my own advice, then I would now be smiling just like I was in previous crashes.  It is not my first time around the block here—it is my first time losing money in a cryptocurrency bear market.

That said:  As I have told Jay, I do recognize that there exist trading scenarios where properly risk-managed leverage makes sense.  I have given some examples of what I see as such a scenario.  They are completely beyond the abilities of any newbie—which is why I have made such a big deal of the don’t use margin message.  Indeed, it was an obvious part of my original motive for my first post here in May.  What else would sufficiently justify embarrassing myself by exposing my losses? Atop that, a place to grieve without further burdening my friends is just gravy.

Trading , leverage or no, is like a tool.


There are of course considerations, and safety considerations, and risk assessments and at the end of the day , risks no matter how you dice it.... no arguments there, and I am not one of those who claims to have a perfect record... far from it.

Education usually costs money.

For sure, on top of everything else, counterparty risk, is a bitch... not just exchanges going bust and taking down your stash... been there, done that, MtGox, Bitfinex, twice, Cryptsy, and a few others.... yup I know that road all too well.


Buuuuuuuut also, exchanges that, have shoddy engines, have unreliable trade executions, disappearing orders, limit orders that trigger too early , too late, cascading liquidations that fail to trigger your orders and skip right through to the next price points etc etc.. I have seen it all. I had, pre BTC days got absolutely, criminally totally fucked in the ass by eToro... not even funny, for the tune of 27K.


I would say this goes hand in hand with risk management and bank roll management though.... you cannot forget about counterparty risk.  


The safest bet is self custody for sure...


However.... I reiterate my position that not all trading is bad, that all TA/QA is not useless, leverage is just a tool (a dangerous tool that will cut your arm off without proper risk management)


Tis what it is.


Tis not for everyone.


Tis not even for the SAME person, a good thing at different times (for example, you are stressed/not in the right mind, under financial stress, not well, not rested, have not thought out what you are doing, have not done extensive training, market conditions are not right... you are drunk etc etc)


Tis also, not a great thing at certain points of the market ... longing near potential macro tops, shorting near potential macro bottoms, ie market extremes... or either can be dangerous in sideways volatile chop (options could be yo friend thou)

Another often unspoken about factor, is your trade sizing and positioning in relation to your margin ... and your available collateral. Done right, you can, withstanding FUNDING, effectively reduce your liquidation point to basically close to zero... sure that comes with some minimal risks too... what doesn't.... that is what you get paid for at the end of the day, assuming risk.


Going long, at macro bottoms, once a retest of support has occurred, and upon confirmation of higher lows and highs, AND  WHEN ALL MID TERM AND LONG TERM MOVING AVERAGES ARE POINTED UP... IS a far better idea than when that is not the case, ESPECIALLY WITH LEVERAGE.  Combine that with risk management, and sensible trade sizing... and well, one is in a better position than if one did not take all those things into consideration.    


Trend is your friend.... until the end.... my only friend.


Alzo.... TREND + MOMENTUM + VOLATILITY taken together... is a useful way of viewing the market.

[ChartBuddy]

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