Bull Makes Money, Bear Makes Money, Sheep Get Slaughtered

[Ethan_Crypto]

Bull makes money in the crypto market. Bear makes money too. But the sheep? The sheep get slaughtered.

Who are the sheep?
The sheep are those who are clueless about the market.
They follow the crowd blindly. They buy at the top because everyone else is buying. They sell at the bottom because everyone else is panicking. They don’t understand what they’re holding, why they’re holding it, or where the market is going. They chase green candles and run from red ones every time.

The truth is simple: crypto rewards the informed and punishes the naive.
The bulls know how to ride the uptrend. The bears know how to profit from the downtrend. But the sheep? The sheep are liquidity for both.

Don’t be a sheep.
Learn the game. Understand the cycles. Think independently. Or else you’ll end up feeding the wolves.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

Bull makes money in the crypto market. Bear makes money too. But the sheep? The sheep get slaughtered.

Who are the sheep?
The sheep are those who are clueless about the market.

We are a lot of sheep in different categories, some being slaughtered by market volatility, scam crypto project, wrong transaction address, hacks, vulnerability related to security and privacy and many other careless mistakes we could found out with some investors doing and bringing a lot havoc on their investment asset.

They follow the crowd blindly. They buy at the top because everyone else is buying.

We are investing not because we wanted to impress on anyone, but because we have an understanding of how the market works and know the necessary steps needed to be taken before we could take action.

[Lida93]

Bull makes money in the crypto market. Bear makes money too. But the sheep? The sheep get slaughtered.

Who are the sheep?
The sheep are those who are clueless about the market.
They follow the crowd blindly. They buy at the top because everyone else is buying. They sell at the bottom because everyone else is panicking. They don’t understand what they’re holding, why they’re holding it, or where the market is going. They chase green candles and run from red ones every time.

Correct me, but I don't see anything wrong buying even at the top provided you're on the trajectory of hodling for long term or many circles ahead then the price at where you buy bitcoin today shouldn't be something to worry about about. Sometime in 2022, $40k was referred to as buying at the top but today 2025 $40k price would be what everyone would call the dip (low). So it's in the years and not the price at which we buy bitcoin today. But overall, it's also good to be a knowledgeable about bitcoin to identify dips for a DCA strategic investor.

[tbct_mt2]

Bull makes money in the crypto market. Bear makes money too. But the sheep? The sheep get slaughtered.

Who are the sheep?
The sheep are those who are clueless about the market.
They follow the crowd blindly. They buy at the top because everyone else is buying. They sell at the bottom because everyone else is panicking. They don’t understand what they’re holding, why they’re holding it, or where the market is going. They chase green candles and run from red ones every time.

If they invest, they have less risk of massacre in the market.

If they trade especially with leverage or futures, they will have very high risk of be slaughtered. So be safe or be slaughtered, it is up to their responsibility and what they actually do in the market with their bitcoin. This means the market does not slaughter or kill anyone, it is like suicide from market participants if they are too careless, too greedy and lack of preventive solutions for defending their investment or trading capital.

Another thing is where they store bitcoin. If they store it on centralized exchange, they might lose it anytime by an exchange's collapse/ bankruptcy / scam exit / hack without compensation to users later.
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[Cointxz]

The truth is simple: crypto rewards the informed and punishes the naive.
The bulls know how to ride the uptrend. The bears know how to profit from the downtrend. But the sheep? The sheep are liquidity for both.

Don’t be a sheep.
Learn the game. Understand the cycles. Think independently. Or else you’ll end up feeding the wolves.

The truth is there will always be a sheep or else there will be no trading at all happened.

No one will get profit if no one will lose. Traders are not trading against exchange rather on other traders too. Exchange is just facilitating trades and get fees.

Even if all traders are smart, there still someone losing in the end. Avoid trading if you knew to yourself that you are not good at it. Just hold Bitcoin.

[passwordnow]

Bull makes money in the crypto market. Bear makes money too. But the sheep? The sheep get slaughtered.

Who are the sheep?
The sheep are those who are clueless about the market.
They follow the crowd blindly. They buy at the top because everyone else is buying. They sell at the bottom because everyone else is panicking. They don’t understand what they’re holding, why they’re holding it, or where the market is going. They chase green candles and run from red ones every time.

The truth is simple: crypto rewards the informed and punishes the naive.
The bulls know how to ride the uptrend. The bears know how to profit from the downtrend. But the sheep? The sheep are liquidity for both.

Don’t be a sheep.
Learn the game. Understand the cycles. Think independently. Or else you’ll end up feeding the wolves.

I was once a sheep but then I didn't leave the market because I know that the longer I stay, the more knowledge I'll acquire and more experience will I gain. And I wasn't wrong with that. The clueless are the ones that always losses the market together with the ones that panics. And it's a different story for the traders that have been trading for so long but still plays with the market through futures and by random altcoins that they're choosing to trade with thinking that it's going to be their one-way ticket to riches. However, they've been used for that by the developers.

[Mrbluntzy]

It is simple as ABC, for those that have accumulated a lot, bull market is to sell (if they are interested) while bear market is to buy more coins and refill your portfolio. Nothing is so difficult here. For something that didn't sell during bull market, they can buy more during bear market. It is not also compulsory to wait till bear market before you can buy more, there are special strategies to continue buying until the bear market comes and even when it's over, you can still continue buying with your strategy.

[Finestream]

However, in reality, everyone started being a sheep. The only difference is that some are driven by greed so they rush into trading without knowing its consequences, while others educate theirselves first and prepare for long term on how they will navigate their future trades in the market. It’s not that the sheep will be punished, some just need to experience personal losses because that will bring them lessons to learn.

[sheenshane]

Don’t be a sheep.
Learn the game. Understand the cycles. Think independently. Or else you’ll end up feeding the wolves.

I don't think there's being dumb who are buying at a high price and selling it when a low price.
I didn't call them a sheep but rather a dumb one.

I don't blame people for selling their Bitcoin, as they probably met their profit goals.  They might be short-term holders, but we are still thankful they are part of Bitcoin's growth.  The ones who are truly getting slaughtered are those who get scammed while they are new to crypto, IMO.

[condoras]

However, in reality, everyone started being a sheep. The only difference is that some are driven by greed so they rush into trading without knowing its consequences, while others educate theirselves first and prepare for long term on how they will navigate their future trades in the market.

The majority yes, we are born sheep. But some people are born in perfect conditions to flourish and have an advantage over all the others, making them wolves from the start. Either they have the money to start whatever or the contacts to know things that most of us don't. In the crypto universe though things are not the same as it is in RL. Here, everybody can lose and everybody can win, big or small.

[X-ray]

Honestly, anyone can avoid being a sheep with one simple thing which is holding.

You just buy bitcoin when it's low, then just forget it, then you're literally already on top of the food chain and become the one that grabs liquidity from future traders.

What you need is just forget, let it sit on your wallet for few cycles and it's already becoming an even bigger diamond, for some reason people just won't do that which is ridiculous.

[hd49728]

Honestly, anyone can avoid being a sheep with one simple thing which is holding.

It's truly good mindset and pathway to success but it's only a start and not enough.

You just buy bitcoin when it's low, then just forget it, then you're literally already on top of the food chain and become the one that grabs liquidity from future traders.

What you need is just forget, let it sit on your wallet for few cycles and it's already becoming an even bigger diamond, for some reason people just won't do that which is ridiculous.

It is a good approach too but there is another vital thing to success, how do you store your bitcoin, which wallet is used for your bitcoin storage?

If you store your bitcoin in Custodial Wallets and forget it for a long time, chance of losing your bitcoin is high. Because centralized exchanges with custodial wallets for users can die, scam exit, disappear anytime and by forgeting your bitcoin on their exchanges for a long time, you see very big risk from this practice.

It is safer and better if you know which is good wallet for storage, that is definitely non custodial wallets. You own private keys, and if you create, store and backup your wallet properly, offline, you can forget your bitcoin in many years. It's safer as less risk of wallet hacks by proper wallet creation, storage and backup.

How to backup a seed phrase?
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There are dozens of wallets to choose from when it comes to securing your private keys. Hardware, software, metal, paper, each with their own trade-offs. Remember: if you aren't holding your own private keys, you don't actually own BTC - you only own an IOU!

[michellee]

If they don't want to learn about trading, they will become the sheep who risk their money. They will panic every time the price moves, whether if the price is up or down because they don't know what suppose they should do.

It is why we must search for more info to know what happen with the market. If we can collect more info from many sources, we can decide what we need to do and adapt with the current situation.

It is why we need learning trading, think wise, and act based on the current situation. We can avoid panic and confuse because of the market movement. We can anticipate if the market move to the other direction so we will know what we must do.

[Wind_FURY]

Bull makes money in the crypto market. Bear makes money too. But the sheep? The sheep get slaughtered.

Who are the sheep?
The sheep are those who are clueless about the market.
They follow the crowd blindly. They buy at the top because everyone else is buying. They sell at the bottom because everyone else is panicking. They don’t understand what they’re holding, why they’re holding it, or where the market is going. They chase green candles and run from red ones every time.

The truth is simple: crypto rewards the informed and punishes the naive.
The bulls know how to ride the uptrend. The bears know how to profit from the downtrend. But the sheep? The sheep are liquidity for both.

Don’t be a sheep.
Learn the game. Understand the cycles. Think independently. Or else you’ll end up feeding the wolves.

But even though if you are "informed", you as a pleb like me will still be considered another sort of "SHEEP". Why? Because WE as PLEBS don't have the capital, nor do we have the army of trading bots that actual professional traders use to take money from the SHEEP.

The best strategy we plebs could do, I believe, is to - Buy the DIP, and HODL.

[slaman29]

After you 'learn the game' and 'understand the cycles' shouldn't you not trade? And just, maybe DCA as I keep saying?

If you're 'in the game' then you know you are the sheep anyway, right? What's your proof you did different? This is the bull, you can make money like everyone else, but when the bear arrives, will you be in the green?

OP is a pleb like rest of us trying to believe he is a wolf

[JeffBrad12]

I'll be honest when it comes to bitcoin, the sheeps are the future traders shorting bitcoin. Bitcoin holders are making money.
But when it comes to altcoin, the sheep are the retailer, because ultimately the MM make the most of money and some insiders also sucking liquidity out of the market while the retailer just gonna got rekt sooner or later.

I believe every bull and bear can't keep making profit consistently, so they still somehow fall under category of sheep, depends on the situation.

[GreatArkansas]

What OP shared is correct and makes sense.
These sheep OP mentioned are most people that are just starting in the cryptocurrency market, where they just easily put their hard earned money like gambling without knowing anything, especially in trading - it's not easy to be honest, even how much money you have, if you don't know what you are doing, it's useless.

[gunhell16]

We are all sheep here in this field of bitcoin and cryptocurrency business industry. Whether we buy top or bottom, there is nothing wrong as long as you are doing it right.
Because even if you buy at the top, if you are long-term holders, there is no problem with this.

Although it is also true that bull or bear, both can still be a source of income because of the volatility that cryptocurrency
and bitcoin have and this is also what all buyers rely on.

[LogitechMouse]

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The truth is simple: crypto rewards the informed and punishes the naive.
The bulls know how to ride the uptrend. The bears know how to profit from the downtrend. But the sheep? The sheep are liquidity for both.

Don’t be a sheep.
Learn the game. Understand the cycles. Think independently. Or else you’ll end up feeding the wolves.

Well, if we will follow this, 90% of the traders are considered "SHEEPS" then because only 10% of the total traders are considered profitable.

Anyway, bulls make money through capital appreciation, bears make money through shorting the market and the sheep are those people who will give their money to those who understand how to read the market. Sadly, but it's the truth. Trading is like a battlefield where those who have the strategy will be the ones that will win, and those who doesn't? They will be the ones that will be slayed first. Kind of weird analogy, but at least you got what I mean.

Learn the game as what the OP said. Whether the market is on an uptrend or a downtrend, we can still make money if we know what we are doing. Newbies will be losing money at first, but as they learn more, the chances of them losing will lessen.

[Ishicryptic]

Bull makes money in the crypto market. Bear makes money too. But the sheep? The sheep get slaughtered.

Who are the sheep?
The sheep are those who are clueless about the market.
They follow the crowd blindly. They buy at the top because everyone else is buying. They sell at the bottom because everyone else is panicking. They don’t understand what they’re holding, why they’re holding it, or where the market is going. They chase green candles and run from red ones every time.

Correct me, but I don't see anything wrong buying even at the top provided you're on the trajectory of hodling for long term or many circles ahead then the price at where you buy bitcoin today shouldn't be something to worry about about. Sometime in 2022, $40k was referred to as buying at the top but today 2025 $40k price would be what everyone would call the dip (low). So it's in the years and not the price at which we buy bitcoin today. But overall, it's also good to be a knowledgeable about bitcoin to identify dips for a DCA strategic investor.

For investors that plans to hold for a long term and have adopted the DCA method they can buy at anytime whether price is high or low, they know that Bitcoin has the potentials to reach ATH in every bull circles. So I wouldn't call this category sheep because they don't plan to sell or take profits on the short term, also they don't care about short term speculations. Sheepish holders are traders and investors that wants to sell or take profits on the short term but they don't have adequate knowledge of the market, they often sell at loss. Crypto is volatile, sheep gets slaughtered for the bull and bear to be profitable, knowledge is key to know which category you fall into.