
Alex E
Alex E
CEO Aether Capital. Full-time trader. 10 years in financial markets. Sharing market insights, not financial advice.
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Bitcoin just proved why it's the ultimate boss of this market. $BTC smashed past $74,000 and every short seller got caught flat-footed. Yesterday, Green Hair took a long, pocketed solid profits, then flipped straight back into a short. You guessed it, another few tens of thousands gone. 😅 Here's the thing, Green Hair loves Ethereum $ETH and lost that $20K entirely on it. The trend is clearly bullish, so fighting it is just burning money. I still see room for ETH to push toward $2,500.
If Bitcoin really returns to its historical high of $120,000, then $CORE, as the core narrative of the Bitcoin ecosystem, should at least reach $1. This is not a trading call, but a fundamental projection.
Currently, CORE's market cap is only about $20 million. In a major bull market, many altcoins without any narrative can easily reach a $1 billion market cap. As the ecosystem leader, if CORE reaches a $2 billion market cap, the corresponding price would be $1, representing a potential upside of up to 50 times.
Once BTC rallies strongly, the first destination for capital overflow will inevitably be ecosystem projects, and CORE is the preferred target to absorb that liquidity. With a small market cap and a strong story, this is the combination most favored by capital.
The market moves too fast; those who miss the ride can only watch helplessly. This is the harsh reality of the market.
Bitcoin just flipped the script in the most violent way possible. 🚀 After months of dead-flat, sleepy trading around $64K, $BTC suddenly ripped through $72K without looking back, tagging $75K+ intraday with back-to-back god candles. The boring range is officially over, and the bulls are throwing a full-blown party. 🐂 What fueled this melt-up? Spot buying led the charge, but forced shorts added rocket fuel.
$ETH keeps climbing and my account is bleeding. Just 10% more and I'm wiped out. 😭 I held off opening a position last night, thinking I'd dodge the loss. Turns out, staying calm was the wrong call. The pain just came later. 😮💨 Ethereum, what are you doing? This rally is brutal. Even $BTC doesn't seem to be managing it. Who's driving this thing? At this pace, I genuinely can't take it anymore. 😤 This is a tough reminder that patience isn't always profit in crypto.
$DOGE is playing the familiar script again, the classic bull trap tactic is back online! Today's surge is nothing but a deliberate illusion created by the whales, aiming to wipe out low-position short orders and then lure retail investors to chase the high and take the losses. Look at the smart money, the average holding cost is at 0.0835, now all trapped above this level. This rally is not a breakout at all, but a trick to get you to enter and break even.
Do you really think the market makers are that stupid? The big whales hold nearly 100 million U in short positions and are not retreating, which means they don't believe the price can skyrocket. Don't rush in at the most euphoric top to be the bag holder; find the right position to set up short orders and wait for the sharks to close the net—that's the right way!
The market is always a game of strategy; following the right rhythm is more important than blindly chasing the rise. Stay calm, don't be swayed by short-term fluctuations
The White House just lit a fire under crypto. 🚨 Trump met with Coinbase, Ripple, and Robinhood at the White House, confirming the U. S. government has discussed accumulating a significant Bitcoin reserve. He doubled down on making America the undisputed crypto capital, covering BTC, digital assets, prediction markets, and AI. 🇺🇸 He also pushed Congress to pass the CLARITY Act fast, with SEC Chair Atkins backing the legislative push. That's a major green light for the industry.
Two months of waiting, finally caught this straight-up rally 🚀
Woke up this morning and saw all my ETH and BTC orders hit take profit. ETH made 1006U profit, an 880% return; BTC made 1053U profit, an 838% return. Combined, that's 2060U. Held ETH for a month, BTC for half a month.
Honestly, when ETH dropped from 1900 to 1800, I almost cut losses, couldn't sleep all night, felt like I was about to become a loser. But every time I thought about closing the position, I asked myself: Is the original reason for opening the trade still valid? The trend hasn't broken, fundamentals haven't changed, so just hold on. Today's result proves that holding on is winning.
The biggest lesson from these two trades is: making money isn't about watching the market perfectly, it's about having the patience to hold. Frequent trading just means paying fees to the exchange, holding
Let's be real for a second — most of our recent losses came from chasing the hottest coins. 😮💨 Take $LAB: it pumped from $0. 07 all the way to $25, then crashed straight back to $0. 07. That move alone wiped out countless positions and strategies. Brutal. Then there was $BEAT, climbing from $0. 10 to $11 before falling all the way back down. Both longs and shorts got harvested by the whales. It felt like a dream — the bad kind. And $BICO? It went from $0. 01 up to $0.
Pop Mart has submitted its report card, but this time the results are a bit subtle. Revenue for the first half of the year was ¥17.17 billion, up 23.8%, but net profit attributable to the parent company only increased by 10.1%. Revenue is still growing, but profit growth has clearly slowed down. The market can no longer just focus on how many blind boxes were sold; it must also look at gross margin, inventory turnover, and the real efficiency of overseas expansion. 🧐
The most critical variable is the cooling off of LABUBU, while sales of Star People have nearly sextupled. The good news is that Pop Mart is not tied to a single IP; six IPs have generated over ¥100 million in revenue, proving that the incubation system really works. But the bad news is that both Asia-Pacific and the Americas are declining, making the domestic market the mainstay again. Today, Star People takes over, but that doesn't mean another LABUBU can be replicated tomorrow, nor does it mean overseas markets will automatically recover. 📉
So my judgment is that Pop Mart
New traders often overlook how liquidation actually works, and last night someone came to me in the group confused about losing his position early. He kept insisting the price never hit 13. 51, so how could he be wiped out? The key is that liquidation uses the mark price, which tracks the index price, not just the last traded price. That nuance is easy to miss, and it cost him dearly. 🧠 Another trap? Small-cap coins with leveraged tokens.