I've been away from the market for the last few weeks, reflecting on why I made such mistakes, especially when I was clearly telling myself how important it was to manage risk. xitter.cf/JoshuaDeuk/status/1817… I think it was ego. After nailing the bottom around July 6th xitter.cf/JoshuaDeuk/status/1809… My challenge balance was close to $7.5M, leaving only $2.5M to reach the $10M goal I set when I started this X account last September. Turning $100K into $10M in one year seemed possible, but I think the pressure I put on myself to be active on X and trade to fulfil this target interfered with my focus. Instead of trading solely based on market conditions, I was driven by the need to achieve that $2.5M goal. This pressure led me to push myself even when I knew the market was just going to chop and there wasn’t much to do. I forced myself to squeeze out the last bit of juice to hit that level, which resulted in less sleep, clouded judgment, poor decision-making, and a lack of patience at critical moments. I was so exhausted that I missed the volatility spike on August 5th. I’m confident I would have capitalized on it to achieve my $10M challenge in under a year. On the other hand, losing $2M this month has been deeply disappointing. Percentage-wise, I haven’t lost this much of my assets in the last 4-5 years. This experience taught me a valuable lesson: I will never sleep when the VIX is higher than 60, and I’ll always be prepared for volatility. xitter.cf/Schuldensuehner/status… So here I am, putting an end to my challenge. Turning $100K into $4.2M, including the Binance perp account that I shared live under SOJUBOMB, has been an incredible journey. But now, it’s time for me to shift focus. I want to concentrate more on trading and research rather than fighting with myself, chasing profits, and becoming blind to what really matters. Has been a great journey so far and got into great trenches by doing so, so I am happy with that but it’s time to rewire myself back to a longer-term marathon mindset—one that balances life and trading together. Moving forward, I’ll focus on high-conviction trades, even if it’s just one per month or every few months. My goal is to keep my PNL graph as flat as possible and survive as long as possible for the potential BTC supercycle, where only select sectors pick up while the rest still decay. I’m still going to share my thoughts on the general market and where I’m looking, but my focus will be broader than before. So, I’ll probably tweet less frequently than I did over the last year. As I close this chapter, my second journey begins now. Market Thoughts I’m still bullish, thinking that market volume will pick up around mid-September from a macro perspective. After five months of newly listed perp tokens experiencing a down-only decay, seeing tokens like $RARE and $SYN squeezing upwards is, in my opinion, a very meaningful signal that the market may have bottomed and is starting to heal. Gold reaching ATH is a very positive sign for BTC, especially after the halving. BTC has always caught up with gold, and while it might take some time with the usual chop, it will eventually follow. Once BTC firmly breaks $100K, I have no doubt we’ll see a frothy alt season. I still believe the MEME and AI sectors will be the best narratives until the end of this cycle—if we haven't ended yet. Memes will never top before the cycle tops, and AI is the only genuinely new keyword we’ve seen this cycle. Remember how NFT and GameFi dominated the last cycle? It’s always the new hot trends that give us the highest upside. If a new narrative emerges, I’ll happily adjust my view and trade accordingly

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understanding market chainging very important to survive

I like @lBattleRhino this one is gold

now u can tell that market have changed by looking at LTF relative strength token starting to underperform and getting selff off unlike last few weeks Which I think is usually a good time to take some chips off the table , slow down on trade, take less trade , take tight sl focus on-chain maybe given CB , Bithumb , Upbit have listed PONS RH chain season could be triggered by RH finally listing PONS

so gamefi pumped during weekend ,, alts not lagging up with major maybe better to be cautious on taking risks for a while

Mon ethfi pump zro <> lit near zec

Bullish

I think $NEAR is local topped