TheBoot

End of an era

Got married, for a change . Trading wise definitely the incoming family life was making me risk averser for a few years now. Still trading sometimes but feeling like sports people in the 30s - past my prime in the career

I'm a pro at leaving the countries to travel pre-wars, avoided both the Russian invasion on Ukraine and today's attack on Dubai. 4 years apart and even drones are the same as used against Ukraine

Pretty famous trader in Ukraine who, according to insides, had up to $30m under management did a suicide today in Kyiv inside his lambo. Just 1.5h before the bottom tick he posted opening spot positions. My guess - his stops executed at the bottom. I'm happy I was not using stops today. And still almost got liquidated due to having my bybit account just a bit undercollateralized at that specific moment, while overall only less than 50% deployed to the market. Would have felt so stupid to lose whole exchange balance due to not being able to send the funds fast enough (wallet could not even simulate transactions due to gas fees).

wow, almost got myself accidentally liquidated due to having very small collateral on the exchange and taking such a fast dump that I couldn't replenish

So, I just realised practically all major CEXs now charge interest on your negative perp UPNL (unless you have matching asset) above certain level that they market as "free borrowing". Isn't that basically a "scam" charge? It wasn't the case in bitmex days. You don't get interest on positive UPNL though and it also means that you'd lose money on hedged positions on the losing leg. Unless I'm missing something?

uh

Back to the USA on a visit and chatgpt says that now it's socially absolutely required to tip Uber drivers as well as practically any other activity? How broken is the USA capitalism if markets cannot make it work through normal prices and wages based on supply and demand?

Based on the PA - is the consenus that the strategic reserve announcement is a total flop?

Every country that relied on the USA in the past needs to get nukes asap.

Been watching North Korean propaganda for an hour straight, top tier product lol Also quite modern in style, besides the worker motives. Quite similar to Russian if Russians added more USSR/communistic vibes

being down ONLY $2m feels good

lmao... we are cooked if they really go this route

ETHBTC up 3% in 45 minutes. Market want to make me hopeful before giving a single killing blow

People are talking a lot about Fed but not mentioning that much possible USG shutdown tonight. Every other year we get scary headlines but almost never it really happens. If Congress passes some temporary budget today this should result in a bounce up to until Monday imo. Hopefully

i'm holding for the bounce but good chance we don't get it... buying even more on leverage sounds stupid. But if we get another direct -10-15% candle maybe converting eth to even more risky assets likes memes for the short-term bounce play could be not the worst idea