89 years old, trading for 70 years—and this guy has taken over the 30-day leaderboard

Shigeru Fujimoto is a living fossil among Japanese retail investors. He entered the market at 19. In his youth, he worked at a pet shop, and by a twist of fate, he got into stocks. Ever since, he’s been at his screen before the market opens every day—without missing a single day in 70 years.

Japan’s bubble burst, the Plaza Accord, Lehman Brothers collapsed—any one of those events would have been enough to make an ordinary investor cash out and leave the market. This old man has lived through a hundred bull and bear cycles and still adds to his positions every day. He’s 89, and he’s number one on the 30-day leaderboard.

The most valuable thing in the market has never been information. It’s time. That’s not some feel-good platitude—it’s a conclusion proven by 70 years of real-world trading.

NEAR is sitting at $5.26, AAVE is hovering around $174, and even core BTC developers are starting to address security risks from AI and quantum computing. Everyone is preparing for the next decade, while retail investors count today’s red and green candles. One down day and they’re cursing the market; three days moving sideways and they think they picked the wrong career. There are people everywhere who can’t hold on for even a week. This 89-year-old has spent 70 years trading to make one thing clear: what kills retail investors isn’t a downturn—it’s giving up first.

Take another look at the leaderboard tonight. Is the old man still in first place? If he is, it means this market still has a place for long-term players.

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