Market Watcher(@watchingmarkets):more thoughts 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.

2026.08.31 20:46

more thoughts 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.

Market Watcher@watchingmarkets

2026.08.31 20:22

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. ref link: