#BTC Why am I still firmly optimistic about the bull market?
Many people believe that with rate-hike expectations heating up, oil prices staying high, and US Treasury yields remaining at elevated levels, the market environment does not support a bull market.
So, they conclude that this rally is just a bull trap, and that fresh lows will appear afterward.
That’s fine—everyone has their own judgment.
But I’ve always believed that in the early stage of switching from bear to bull, it is often accompanied by massive disagreement and doubt.
I don’t believe that a real bull market must wait until external conditions stabilize, economic data improves across the board, and only then—after the FOMC meeting—when Waller signals a rate-cut direction, will the market officially get started.
If everyone waits until good news is already in place, data turns better, and the market is unanimously bullish before entering, then where would the market be at that point?
Do institutions really not know that rate hikes may continue in the future? Don’t they pay attention to the US10Y and US30Y Treasury yields, or the persistently high oil prices?
Since these risks are all on the table, why has BTC still managed to put out such a行情?
I won’t easily deny my own judgment just because there are bearish factors in the market. Of course, my judgment could also be wrong—ultimately it still needs the market’s price action to verify.
Let time give the answer.
Maybe a year from now, when Bitcoin breaks its all-time high again, market voices will gradually shift from doubt to belief, and more and more people will firmly start to think: the bull market really is here.
But by then, what stage of the bull market will the行情 be in?
The market always starts amid doubt, moves forward amid differences, and turns狂热 amid consensus.
I don’t need everyone to agree with my view right now.
I only need to keep independent thinking, respect market signals, manage risk well, and then let time verify everything.
What’s truly worth thinking about is not when everyone believes in the bull market, but whether—in a market still full of disagreement—you have your own judgment, and the ability to take the risk that comes with that judgment.
📈 #BTC bull market may have quietly begun, and you may currently be in the early stage of a new round of market activity! Many people are still watching from the sidelines, wondering whether midterm elections, future interest rate hikes, and various policy news will trigger another round of declines. But there is one important signal in trading worth paying attention to: when bad news materializes and the market does not experience the expected sharp selloff, it is worth re-examining the market’s true ability to absorb selling. ❤ Thank you for your attention!
📈 #BTC bull market may have quietly begun, and you may currently be in the early stage of a new round of market activity! Many people are still watching from the sidelines, wondering whether midterm elections, future interest rate hikes, and various policy news will trigger another round of declines. But there is one important signal in trading worth paying attention to: when bad news materializes and the market does not experience the expected sharp selloff, it is worth re-examining the market’s true ability to absorb selling. ❤ Thank you for your attention!
🧧 You don’t have to live up to the image of “excellent” in other people’s eyes—just stay true to yourself. Accept all imperfections, reduce mental burnout, and remember that an ordinary life is still worth loving. $BNB
$ASTER These past couple of days, I’m really starting to go in at full intensity. The long positions are directly set up. <br/>ASTER is also hovering around 0.75.<br/><br/>This time, I don’t really want to treat it as a regular rebound, because the recent messages all came out together.<br/><br/>🔥 September 28: Aster just launched Perpetual Grid 2.0, and at the same time started a 4-week liquidity mining program. The maximum rewards are up to 140,000 A STER tokens, running all the way until October 25. In plain terms, they’re continuing to find ways to push trading volume into the platform.<br/><br/>💰 The token side hasn’t been idle either. The official Tokenomics was just updated: protocol revenue will continue to allocate part of it toward buying back A STER. VIPs have also directly added higher A STER holding requirements, and contract fees can be paid with A STER to save an additional 5%. That’s a lot more comfortable than the simplistic “the platform got hot, and the coin just goes up with it.”<br/><br/>Now let’s look at positioning—this is where it gets interesting.<br/>On Binance, the current A STER perpetual contract OI is about 126 million tokens.<br/>For regular accounts, longs are roughly 56%—not particularly extreme. But for the whales, the long/short positioning ratio is already close to 3.93, with about 80% of whale positions concentrated on the long side.<br/><br/>Even wilder: the funding rate is only around 0.005%.<br/>So it means: whales are clearly leaning long, but the market hasn’t gotten expensive enough to a point where “longs can’t afford rent.”<br/><br/>In the last 4 hours, the buy/sell ratio by active trading has also climbed back to around 1. The earlier sell pressure has obviously eased.<br/>So this time, I’m willing to take a long trade with size.<br/>📌 I’m not betting on just one candlestick.<br/>I’m betting that:<br/>• the new product just launched<br/>• mining rewards just started<br/>• the platform is still continuing to add real usage scenarios for A STER<br/>• whale positioning is clearly leaning long<br/>When these factors collide, if 0.75 really gets absorbed, sentiment can easily accelerate suddenly afterward.<br/>Of course, there’s one thing I’m not pretending not to see—whales are already pressing quite heavily toward longs. If the price can’t move up, then this batch of positions is also a risk in the other direction.<br/>But given the current positioning structure, I’d rather stand with the longs.
On life’s long journey, it’s inevitable to get bruised; those surging waves that can’t be calmed will eventually be left only as a passing mention between lips and teeth. When the tide falls, boats set forth; when clouds disperse, the moon comes out—there is always a stretch of mountains and waters that can bear the hardships of this road. The faraway place you want to go is also waiting for you, with all your dust and travel-worn spirit. And be at ease in the present moment—don’t anticipate worries for tomorrow. Tomorrow morning, pull on your clothes and rise again—be a traveler on far-off mountains and rivers! #定投BTC #定投BNB
🚀Sep 29|Crypto Market Brief $BNB 🧧 📊 BTC is consolidating around $84K, with macro pressure still lingering BTC is currently around $83.5K–84K, ETH around $2.69K, SOL around $119. After falling from the $87K high, the market has entered a consolidation phase. The real pressure is macro: the US 10-year Treasury yield remains above 5.2%, Brent crude has broken above $106, and the US dollar stays strong. 🔥 ETF flows haven’t stopped On 9/28, the US spot BTC ETF still recorded about $31M in net inflows. Spot ETFs for ETH, SOL, and XRP also maintained net inflows. Prices are adjusting, but institutional capital hasn’t fully exited. 🏦 Coinbase completes the closed loop for US derivatives infrastructure The CFTC approved Coinbase Clearing LLC as a derivatives clearing entity. Now Coinbase has a broker, an exchange, and a clearing entity, further strengthening its compliant derivatives business in the US. 💵 Citi × Coinbase Both sides expand their stablecoin partnership, making it easier for businesses to receive stablecoin payments and to complete fiat settlement through the banking system. ⚠️ The Bitget incident continues to move forward Bitget today resumed ETH and EVM network withdrawals as planned. Meanwhile, NEAR Intents says it has intercepted more than $50M in cross-chain transfers related to the Bitget attackers. 🌏 Macro adds yet another spark The Reserve Bank of Australia raised rates to 4.60%, the highest level since 2011. The market now faces high oil prices, high bond yields, and geopolitical risks at the same time. 📌 Market Snapshot BTC ≈ $83.5K ETH ≈ $2.69K SOL ≈ $119 Market Cap ≈ $2.86T BTC Dominance ≈ 58–59% Fear & Greed ≈ 70+ 🎯 Today’s market is interesting: Prices are cooling off, while ETF capital is still flowing in; macro conditions are tightening, yet institutional infrastructure continues to expand. Next, what’s really worth watching is support at $82K–83K, and whether ETF inflows can keep staying positive. #1688家族family #Crypto #RWATokens #DeFi:
Along the mountainside, the breeze is light and the clouds are thin, and some choose to set up camp and linger here. But those who aspire to the summit will not be lured by the tenderness of the mountainside.
The narrower the mountain path becomes, the quieter it grows; fewer companions remain. Along the way, let go of comfort and hesitation, and climb upward, treading on past weakness.
There’s no need to fear loneliness or hardship. If the direction is right, every step matters. Your gaze should always be fixed on that LUCiC ray of light atop the peak.
🍂 As September comes to a close and October begins anew! ✨
As September draws to a close, looking back on the turbulence and dormancy we’ve walked through, every act of steadfastness is an accumulation of growth; every time we settle, we’re gathering the strength to move forward. 📊
Don’t be anxious due to a brief period of silence, and don’t waver because of market fluctuations. Stay patient, hold fast to your convictions; walk together within consensus, and grow through volatility. 🕊️
🍁 Farewell to September—hello to October!
May we always stay together with one heart, with steady steps, and live up to the time, and to our perseverance. Through the storms of the market, we quietly await the blooming of what’s meant for us! 💛🦋
Trading core principles 1. Hold the line—survive first, then make money. The first rule of trading isn’t quick profits—it’s long-term survival. Never add to losing trades. Cut losses immediately after a mistake. Eliminate high-leverage gambling. Don’t let losses drive emotions. Don’t retaliate with an oversized position. Don’t borrow to try to get even. Staying alive is the market’s biggest trump card. 2. Take profits and keep taking—lock them in for safety. Paper gains are all just imaginary. The profits you lock in are the real, hard money. If your position is in profit, take profit in batches. Never let winning gains turn into losses. Ditch the fantasy of getting rich overnight. Small gains accumulated steadily with compounding is the only path to growing capital.
To grow the principal, you don’t rely on luck—you rely on discipline
If you don’t have much capital, really stop chasing charts blindly and making random trades.
The crypto market has never been a place where you can survive long-term by luck alone.
The smaller your principal, the less you can afford to be anxious. The more you want to turn things around, the more you must restrain yourself.
Because the biggest advantage of small capital isn’t that you’re bold enough to gamble—it’s that you can control risk and still have a chance to start over.
Remember these 3 rules:
① Capital allocation—never go all-in
Divide your capital into three parts.
One part for short-term trades: when you have profit, take it off the table—don’t get greedy to the very end; One part for waiting for trends: if the market hasn’t moved in your expected direction, be patient and wait; The last part as a reserve: unless it’s truly necessary, never touch it lightly.
Always leave yourself a way to retreat.
② Only make money from what you can understand
If there’s no opportunity, stay in cash. If there’s no signal, wait.
Not every candlestick is worth participating in, And you don’t have to make money every day.
If you don’t understand the market, it’s better to miss it; Only after you understand the opportunity should you act seriously.
Trading isn’t about who makes more moves—it’s about who makes fewer mistakes.
③ Take-profit and stop-loss must be executed
If you’re wrong, admit it. If you’re in profit, reduce your position according to the plan. If you’re at a loss, don’t mindlessly add just to average down.
The real danger has never been a single small loss.
It’s when you’re clearly wrong, but because you’re unwilling to accept it, you stubbornly turn a small loss into a big one.
No one can guarantee that every trade will be profitable.
But you can do this:
Keep small losses under control, hold onto profits, and never touch big losses.
Having a small principal isn’t scary. What’s truly terrifying is trying to turn things around in a rush.
When you’re anxious, you chase the surge. When you have a loss, you add. When you get a win, you start getting greedy again. In the end, your trading is completely taken over by emotions.
The real growth path for small capital has never been:
All-in → a sudden surge → a fortune overnight.
It should be:
First survive → control drawdowns → execute steadily → accumulate slowly → let compounding work.
So don’t always think about how much you’ll make on the next trade.
First ask yourself:
If this trade is wrong, what’s the maximum I can afford to lose?
In the end, trading isn’t about who’s most willing to gamble. It’s about who can, through repeated fluctuations, keep their principal, keep their discipline, and keep their own rhythm.
Don’t be greedy. Don’t panic. Don’t gamble.
The first step in turning around with a small principal has never been making money—it’s learning how not to lose your chance first.
When you have something, you should cherish it well. Research by psychologists like Robert Emmons and others has found that actively focusing on things in life that you have to be grateful for helps boost positive emotions and well-being. The biggest mistake people make in life is taking what they have for granted. If your parents are still here, spend more time with them; if your loved one is still there, cherish them well; if your body is healthy, don’t recklessly overdraw it. Because nothing you have is permanent, and every reunion has its time limit. True appreciation isn’t something you regret only after losing it—it’s knowing, while you still have it, that it’s worth cherishing. Cherish the person in front of you, cherish what’s happening right now, and cherish everything you have at this moment.
Life is like tea, with both bitterness and sweetness in balance.
Life is like tea; it requires a calm heart and patient waiting. When it sinks, accept it with composure—learn to build strength. When it rises, stay unruffled—learn to let things settle. Hold your temper steady, and only then can you become truly great.
What do you know is the most fascinating part of trading? In business, with different ways of thinking, you need time to communicate and put in all your effort to persuade others. In trading, is it different in how you think? No arguing, no persuading, no explanations. You have your judgment, and I have my logic. You are bullish, and I am bearish. The market is the arena, and price is the referee. No need to persuade anyone, and no need to prove anything to anyone. If the direction is right, take the profit that belongs to you. If the direction is wrong, accept the market’s lesson. Trading is a quiet contest.
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