Watching Market Patterns VS Choosing Your Mental Health


I was speaking with @gadrian today about how historical events in crypto have created a bizarre expectation of how crypto prices should be. I believe it is a rarely considered or discussed topic because it is not directly related to money; rather, it is about crypto psychology, which is greatly underestimated.

In this post I mentioned how the months leading up to a bull market year are always the most difficult and mentally stressful because people have certain price expectations, and when these price expectations are not met, people begin to speculate that there will be no bull run.

We start imagining roadblocks and figuring out why these prices have not gone the way we expected.

The "US election" Parameter

Recently, the US elections were one of those, but I am looking forward to the next narrative that we will present after the elections are completed in about seven days; perhaps there will not be enough catalysts to propel the market?

Or perhaps if Kamala wins, this will mean no bull run. Aside from that, we have heard that retail is simply too broke to enter the market, so only BTC may rise while alts remain stagnant. I believe many of these statements will continue until the end of the year, which is not surprising.

We did not have this level of panic or statements at the start of the year. In fact, when BTC broke its previous ATH prior to the halving, we predicted the largest bull run ever, but nothing spectacular has occurred since.

I believe we are shooting ourselves in the foot with unrealistic expectations; if COVID occurs in 2024, I am confident the sentiment will be completely negative regardless. However, it is possible that there were not many expectations after COVID, or that crypto has attracted more people, but whatever the case, it is more of a psychological than a realistic issue.

There is literally no proof that we will not moon; granted, BTC has been doing all of the mooning, and alts are still flat, but everything remains unchanged. Now, while I believe that historical events should not be used to predict what will happen in the future, I also believe that no one should panic or stress out because it is not yet a proper bull market year.

The UPtober Craze

I know the UPtober and Q4 tags have caused a lot of controversy. Since the beginning of the year, October has been the most anticipated month due to its historical significance, but it has not occurred, and some of the events appear to make it look rather bad.

At this point, it is more of a mental game.

This war will only be won by those who are mentally courageous. It is probably time to stop making up reasons why we have not mooned. For example, I believe that Kamala Harris winning the election will have no effect on how well crypto will perform beginning in January; it is too late for that to happen.

People have called Michael Saylor names for investing large sums of money in cryptocurrency, and I recall the world laughing at El Salvador's president. He bought at a high price, which is probably why he received a lot of jeers, but profits are unavoidable, and this bull run will most likely reward the biggest risk takers.

Not many people have the stomach, and this is a psychological issue. It is unrelated to crypto in general. When someone is concerned that their asset will go to zero, it is more about their state of mind than reality.

The Mind VS Reality

Most of the sentiment and supposed parameters as to why we have not mooned yet will have no effect, and we will only realize how foolish or wrong we were when the market takes off.

BTC At 71k Who Cares?

Again, no one is paying attention to Bitcoin at 71k, and there are two reasons for this. The first reason is that October has been filled with some of the most frustrating crab walks this year, and they may decrease before the end of the month. The second reason is that these pumps do not have a direct effect on the alts.

In reality, the alts do not move this way. While most alts move when BTC moves, the reason an alt can do x50 while BTC only does x3 is because alts pump faster during the full season.
Now unless you're 100% in BTC, you won't care much about BTC at 71k

100k

However, most people seem to believe that once the alts reach 100k BTC, they will finally begin to move; I believe it is a long way from 71k to 100k. Is it possible from now until the end of the year? I do not know. However if we follow previous pattern it probably should, so this means that 100k is achievable in two months.

Then again, no one should put their absolute hope in these patterns and this is the main theme of this post.

I believe that everyone should be looking forward to what happens in a proper bull run year, rather than being scared, agitated, or frustrated; the biggest mistake would be to be caught while watching.



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I mentioned how the months leading up to a bull market year are always the most difficult and mentally stressful because people have certain price expectations, and when these price expectations are not met, people begin to speculate that there will be no bull run.

That! When those speculations of NOT having a bull run at all become more REAL, and FUD hits the highest level, then we can go up... It was always like that, not just in crypto, but in life... You have to hit the ground hard, to start rising up...
Tbh, I don't see that fear yet, and that's why I agree with you that this "bottoming" of altcoins will continue for a bit more time...

It's Bitcoin time atm, and we should respect that... First comes the Big Daddy...


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Haha you're right, we might even just dip further. I was looking at BTC movement in comparison with eth and Eth was completely stagnant despite the fact that BTC was mooning real hard yesterday and it just correlates with what you've said

Many feels that BTC's movement means that we won't have an altcoin season this time around, but the market is pulling a lot of surprises.

Well I hope we shake off these weak hands soon enough so we can begin to go up real soon

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I don't think we will see 100k BTC this year, but maybe in 2025 :) I did sell today a small portion of my old GBTC with the idea of repositioning into the new version of the ETF on a pull back.

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Well let's see how it'll go, we all have our different predictions and expectations

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I think it's hard to really know what the market will do but I think the markets will dip first if Trump wins. I have a feeling that anyone propping up the market will rather see it fall. I would just avoid looking at the charts. It's better to just set some alerts and wait for them to happen compared to staring at the charts. The expectations and fears just ruin people.

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Well, it's hard to not look at the moment, we literally see prices every app we open or everywhere we look, I'm going to be monitoring how how the elections turns out, but I think we'll just be fine

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I believe you that historical events should not be used to predict future outcomes, especially when it comes to Crypto because I have witnessed it do the unthinkable.
It is for the courageous at heart and for such people, they keep holding on.

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Nevertheless, 80 to 90% of time, history plays a lot of role.

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Sometimes, as your title suggests, it is important to take a step back from the market and let it do its thing in the short term, to protect your mental health. Besides, not all people have the same capacity to battle with the short term market swings without being affected emotionally, at least. Personally, I prefer to stay away from short term trends most of the times, with few exceptions here and there.

Thanks for the mention!

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It's just rational to stay away and let the market do it's thing. Unfortunately lol we cannot completely do that, especially since we have access to tools that gets us actively involved with the market.
It's probably not going to be long now before we begin to pump, but it's hard to completely let the market do it's thing.
Sometimes our enthusiasm and eagerness leads to disappointment..

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All commodity, stock and cryptocurrency markets have long been driven by desires and expectations, not fundamental analysis. The price of everything is driven up by human desire and greed. This is the strongest incentive humanity has. A more powerful engine for growth could not exist.

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Yes, I talk about this all the time. We expect people to begin to FOMO when the price begins to move up.

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Thank you

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Very interesting article.

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