The simple habit of reading in silence is a lost art, and an edge, in today's mostly doom scrolling society.
I know that sounds like a cliché, but after years of teaching every age group, I genuinely believe it.
A calm mind capable of logical reasoning can make a real difference in trading profitability.
Drawing knowledge from books is valuable for any path in life.
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new trader and losing money in an onchain bull market?
Sometimes, reading through a lot of what's on the CT TL, I get the feeling that new capital is coming into crypto with a three month time horizon, hoping to become a millionaire as fast as possible. Meanwhile, every profitable trader got completely wrecked in their first years before slowly fighting their way through, strategy by strategy, into some kind of discipline until consistent profitability became a thing. That process can easily take a decade if you're going through different life stages, studying, building a career, starting a family.
When I first started experimenting with crypto and onchain trading, it was one of the most glorious bull markets ever, coins were running to billion dollar valuations, printing god candles daily, and I still walked out of it with losses. Clueless, overconfident, greedy, overtrading, and chasing without any self awareness.
I get the inner urge, especially when you're coming from tight financial circumstances, to want to make it as fast as possible, especially when you're staring at all the huge PnLs on your TL. But if mindset and skillset aren't there yet, you might land one or two lucky wins, only to trade them right back away just as fast, simply because the hard, necessary experience of practicing real capital protection is still missing.
Two books I consistently recommend as foundational reading, one for mindset, one for execution.
The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
This book builds the mental framework required for long term success: understanding risk, patience, probabilistic thinking, and emotional control. Trading is less about intelligence and more about behavior, this book helps you develop the discipline to survive and compound over time.
Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets - John J. Murphy
A cornerstone of technical analysis. It teaches you how to read market structure, trends, momentum, and price behavior, the practical tools needed to identify setups, manage risk, and systematically build capital through trading.
Together, these two books cover the core pillars of trading: mindset + technical execution
If you’re serious about getting better, this is where the work starts.
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new trader and losing money in an onchain bull market?
Sometimes, reading through a lot of what's on the CT TL, I get the feeling that new capital is coming into crypto with a three month time horizon, hoping to become a millionaire as fast as possible. Meanwhile, every profitable trader got completely wrecked in their first years before slowly fighting their way through, strategy by strategy, into some kind of discipline until consistent profitability became a thing. That process can easily take a decade if you're going through different life stages, studying, building a career, starting a family.
When I first started experimenting with crypto and onchain trading, it was one of the most glorious bull markets ever, coins were running to billion dollar valuations, printing god candles daily, and I still walked out of it with losses. Clueless, overconfident, greedy, overtrading, and chasing without any self awareness.
I get the inner urge, especially when you're coming from tight financial circumstances, to want to make it as fast as possible, especially when you're staring at all the huge PnLs on your TL. But if mindset and skillset aren't there yet, you might land one or two lucky wins, only to trade them right back away just as fast, simply because the hard, necessary experience of practicing real capital protection is still missing.
Two books I consistently recommend as foundational reading, one for mindset, one for execution.
The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
This book builds the mental framework required for long term success: understanding risk, patience, probabilistic thinking, and emotional control. Trading is less about intelligence and more about behavior, this book helps you develop the discipline to survive and compound over time.
Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets - John J. Murphy
A cornerstone of technical analysis. It teaches you how to read market structure, trends, momentum, and price behavior, the practical tools needed to identify setups, manage risk, and systematically build capital through trading.
Together, these two books cover the core pillars of trading: mindset + technical execution
If you’re serious about getting better, this is where the work starts.
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vexanium:native is having a hard time trying to push through that resistance. Structure still looks solid though. I think a lot of traders just aren't seeing the narrative yet since the attention is elsewhere.
Meanwhile, I believe rh chain and the crypto industry giants somehow know what they're doing when they state that agentic trading has a future onchain, and at some point, near or far future, we'll see more and more momentum build in this narrative.
@ProjectVEXai has the potential to gain attention while they're building out their agent infrastructure on robinhood chain.
I think traders first need to warm up to agentic trading over time (me too), bc a lot of trading strategies, routines, and even port management can be run effectively once it's operating on your own machine. It'll probably come down to a clean interface and low friction onboarding, similar to what we're seeing with the fomo app, where the blockchain tech fades into the background and execution plus thesis work becomes the focus.
Until then, I'm closely observing dynamics in agentic AI x crypto developments across the entire industry, just like I do in the stock market.
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The next era of consumer finance is agentic.
$FRONG
@frongcommunity
The leading meme coin on uniswaps own launchpad
@TradePools is trading around 10m mcap, with strong new liquidity dynamics and increasing whale activity.
At the same time, uniswap is emerging as the largest and closest onchain liquidity partner of robinhood chain and UNI continues to show strong relative strength.
Robinhood chain and vlad are signaling a sharper focus on meme coins, likely as a strategy to expand onchain market share.
vlad:
rh crypto:
uniswap appears to be one of the biggest potential beneficiaries of this shift
new daily ATHs:
@vladtenev CEO of robinhood about uniswap pools:
More meme activity on their own launchpad means more trading volume, deeper liquidity, and ultimately more value flowing through uniswap’s infrastructure.
They've soft shilled frong multiple times now, and the current PA plus pattern dynamic is very telling.
As uniswaps founder
@haydenzadams noted, "It’s a frog in a pool"
not frong, just early
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Sometimes I'm so early that I start questioning my own thesis, wondering why just a few others see it.
Then it pumps a few weeks later and proves me right.
Then I remember that most people don't actually want to be early, they just want the comfort of chasing green candles once it's already a consensus trade. Copy trading cycle.
The ones doing the daily work to think for themselves will always profit more.
Focus on your own framework.
pools coins
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$FRONG price discovery starts from 18m
300m runners became the norm on this chain
Uniswap motion
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$FRONG price discovery starts from 18m
300m runners became the norm on this chain
Uniswap motion
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I think agentic trading will become a thing on rh chain
early, not wrong
$VIRTUAL vexanium:native
$VIRTUAL (4h) breaking out
Probably bullish momentum building for agentic trading infra projects on rh.
BO + retest should be done
$NEAR
relative strength ✍️
$NEAR
$AAVE & ethereum:0x808507121b80c02388fad14726482e061b8da827 are going for it
$LINK no BO yet
TA is your guide to making cash with cats.
$CASHCAT (4h)
tendies-2:native breaking out as well
$HOODRAT wedge
$JUGGERNAUT reversal
Interesting
$UNI $FRONG
Noticing the relative strength of $UNI and robinhood memes.
Can't be just me who thinks the leading meme coin on their own launchpad, one they're probably trying to gain market share with, right as vlad's pushing for more meme coin market share pre new product launch, and while the uniswap CEO is soft shilling it, is mispriced below 6m mcap.
comfy in $FRONG
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Noticing the relative strength of $UNI and robinhood memes.
Can't be just me who thinks the leading meme coin on their own launchpad, one they're probably trying to gain market share with, right as vlad's pushing for more meme coin market share pre new product launch, and while the uniswap CEO is soft shilling it, is mispriced below 6m mcap.
comfy in $FRONG
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$UNI is today's top gainer, and it's key infra for robinhood chain, vlad highlighted the importance of uniswap pools for rh, the team even launched their own launchpad with a new liquidity dynamic just weeks ago, with the top meme coin, soft shilled by all of them, still sitting below 10m mcap.
Just saying.
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this is not a phase
this is a $CASHCAT cycle
$UNI is today's top gainer, and it's key infra for robinhood chain, vlad highlighted the importance of uniswap pools for rh, the team even launched their own launchpad with a new liquidity dynamic just weeks ago, with the top meme coin, soft shilled by all of them, still sitting below 10m mcap.
Just saying.
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relative strength ✍️
$NEAR
$VIRTUAL (4h) breaking out
Probably bullish momentum building for agentic trading infra projects on rh.
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I started off ramping in $100 batches back then, btw.
Holding $100 in your hands hits different than watching that balance drop inside your wallet.
Off ramping is a must, it keeps your perspective intact and gets you closer to actual financial independence.
I know greed in a bull market is tricky, you want to size everything up to make way more, way faster, bc your brain tricks you into thinking everyone's making that much money. But really you're just comparing yourself to the top 1% of traders, who are probably already financially independent.
Until the red days hit, and they always come, and you realize you're not actually comfortable with that size, and start asking, "what if it goes down from here, I can't afford to lose that much." What usually follows is overtrading and overrotating out of positions you would've been comfortable holding or trading if the size had simply fit where you actually are in your trading journey, leading to sleepless nights and emotional decision making.
Your size always has to match where you are in your trading journey, and be backed by experience.
Smart traders grow into their size slowly, so consistency and discipline stay the drivers. Makes you way more profitable in my opinion, even if the progress in your wallet feels a lot slower at first.
But thats just my framework and opinion.
I respect the full onchain/bitcoin only approach too, but my conservative mind just couldn't rest peacefully at night with it.
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full bull, but with intention and experience
Onchain bull run in an emerging social app trading cycle, all while bitcoin is still trading below 80k in an uptrend and rh chain is just two months old.
BUT, I know it's not what traders want to read when they're trying to make a lot of money in a short amount of time, but don't forget to TP and offramp gradually, especially when you're euphoric. Let it be $500 a week or more, doesn't matter, it's your journey. More opportunities will come, yes, but comfortable trading size can be an edge against emotional overtrading.
That's how I made it in 2024, by actually off ramping capital to my bank accounts and protecting it by doing nothing. For most traders, wealth builds over time, not with one big trade that makes you a fast million. I still have all my 2024 trading profits comfortably sitting in an ETF, not left onchain to slowly bleed out in a bear market, bc capital sitting onchain has a way of getting used for "just one more trade."
CT pushed the narrative back in 2020 that meme stock szn was your last chance to make it. Then altcoin szn in 2021 was the last chance. Then meme coin szn in 2024 was, of course, your last chance, and AI coin szn in 2025 was the last chance too. And now it's supposedly the last chance to make it with the rh eco. There will always be a next "last chance." So stay calm, have a trading framework, and stay true to your principles, but also take the risk sometimes and have the balls to hold a little longer, especially in an emerging bull market like right now.
A good trader with a proven edge always makes money, bc he's consistently profitable in every market and dynamic.
Don't let your trading framework get broken by emotional decision making, sizing up against your own rule set. Be smarter, especially while watching high uPnL like this on fomo.
You can watch me trade this bull market, offramp my capital, and do daily thesis work, all transparently, on fomo.
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