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Replying to @VladTheInflator
I really dont understand this. I put myself first all my life and somehow I am alone now. Really. Maybe you never offered anyone anything. Maybe that´s why.
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October challenge
-Porn daily
-Alcohol daily
-No exercising
-3-4 hours of sleep a night
-13+ hours screentime
-Don’t go to work/skip all classes
-If in school GPA must stay below 2.0
-All meals must be microwaveable or DoorDashed
I keep seeing the @LaunchOnSF vs @longdotxyz model over and over, so let's just knock this out as simply as possible.
I understand the appeal of reflection tokens. You hold a coin, and tokens land in your wallet. I’ve seen those near six-figure reward screenshots too. Nice!
But follow where those rewards come from.
$STONK’s reward model taxes buys/sells of the launched token, sells the collected tokens for the paired asset, and distributes it to holders. Those payouts are funded by activity and token sales.
Now there might be concerns about the feedback loop when volume slows down:
Early rewards attract buyers. Buyers accumulate supply to capture more payouts. But if the cost of buying a position rises faster than its rewards, the proposition becomes less attractive.
In other words, if activity then slows, the reward pool shrinks. If rewards were the main reason people bought, then smaller payouts could further weaken demand.
That doesn't mean tokens can't survive, but it’s a dependency worth understanding.
Now on the other side, this is why LONG is in the position you see today.
LONG automatically recycles launch fees into locked liquidity. Instead of landing in your wallet, those fees deepen the market for the coin you hold.
Why does that matter? Because when someone sells, the available liquidity determines how much that sale moves the price. More liquidity around the trading price generally means less slippage for the seller and less price impact for everyone still holding.
For example, $AI alone holds $20M in total liquidity and has withstood multiple $1M and $2M sells without breaking the chart. This is important.
Wait for the first real pullback on the STONK ecosystem, then you’ll get why that matters.
Not because LONG tokens can’t dump. They can. But you want trading activity during the good days to build liquidity that can absorb selling on the bad days.
Both models depend on activity. If volume slows, STONK’s reward generation slows, and LONG’s liquidity accumulation slows. The difference is that liquidity already added doesn’t vanish just because fewer people traded today. Its value and composition can change, but the previous activity helped build a deeper market.
So I understand preferring rewards you can receive today. But “I don’t get reflections, therefore I get nothing” misses the whole point.
I’d rather fees help build the liquidity holders eventually need than judge an ecosystem's value purely by the reflections.
Hope this helps.
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Me after promising myself I’d take profits at 10x but now it’s at 10x and I’m seeing a clear path to 1000x
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youth is so beautiful. i'm sitting here now, 58 years old, remembering my twenties, when i didn't think i was good-looking. but when i look at pictures of me and friends and girlfriends from then, i finally see that i was indeed beautiful...i just couldn't see it then. don't ever let your own self-doubt stop you from doing things that the beautiful people get to do. things like going out, dating someone, taking risks. go out and do it all, because you are the beautiful people.
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a common denominator amongst a lot of the best traders who win each cycle is that they click drastically fewer buttons than everyone else. clicking is more intentional. buy for a reason, sell for a reason. theses, convictions, intuition, patience. incredible impulse control
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ur not gonna learn anything from a movie
but u can use them to distract urself or make urself emotional
trading is emotional == manipulate ur emotions
here is what i use
#1: make urself bullish
full do u really need anyone else
(henry v crispin's day speech works well too)
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Agree 100% with this. There is nothing noble about blowing up.
Losing everything does not magically turn you into a better trader. It can destroy your confidence, damage your relationships, make you desperate to win it back and genuinely fuck up your life.
The whole “I lost everything and it was the best lesson of my life” narrative is mostly survivorship bias and cope. You only hear it from the few people who recovered (+ larps). The thousands who never came back are not posting inspirational threads about it.
And what exactly did it teach them? Position sizing? Not to overleverage? To take profits? To respect money? You can learn all of that from losing 10%. You do not need a 100% wipeout.
A lesson does not become more valuable because the tuition was catastrophic.
Protect your money. Stay in the game. You do not need to ruin your life to become wiser. The real edge is staying in the game long enough for time and experience to compound
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