FED CUTS RATES BY 25 BPS!

The U.S. Federal Reserve just reduced interest rates by 0.25% (25 basis points).

🔹 This means cheaper money and more liquidity in the market.

🔹 Stocks and crypto usually react positively when rates go down.

But if the Fed is cutting because the economy is slowing, we can still see short-term volatility.

Overall → Bullish for BTC, ETH, and tech stocks, but stay alert for quick pullbacks.

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If you get paralysed by this kind of market, you need to consider how you’re living day to day.

The reason I’ve always focused so much on things outside of trading itself like health, relationships, diet, sleep, the usual rigmarole, is because that’s what sets the foundation for how you respond to difficulties.

To live a healthy lifestyle, have consistent sleep, nice skin, a six pack and a small but powerful group of friends and family that give your life meaning, all of that requires doing things you probably don’t want to do in the moment.

Leaving your desk, stepping away from the screen after taking dozens of trades, that’s the only way to drain the autistic energy you build up from staring at charts all day.

Trading when you’re winning is probably the most exciting and rewarding job you could ever ask for. It feels like you’re invincible, like money is falling from the sky. Who doesn’t want that?

Except how invincible do you feel when markets have traded sideways for months, underperforming traditional assets like the S&P 500, even while we’ve had strong liquidity injections? Crypto’s always been the most positively skewed beta, yet here we are.

At its core, trading is just understanding your own psyche. We all have different ways we trade, different frameworks, risk management and tooling.

Even with all those differences, we can agree that becoming a good trader requires extensive screen time and finding asymmetries or divergences between attention and flows.

While there’s luck involved, you can become consistently lucky by showing up every day and improving your process.

Every market condition favours a certain style of trading. Because crypto has always been a positively skewed beta to liquidity, most traders end up as momentum traders, so when we chop, it’s brutal for momentum riders.

That’s why how you structure your lifestyle and external habits directly affects how you manage emotions when the environment’s not in your favour.

I’ve said before that my trading style often shifts depending on my read of the market each month. While I don’t plan to change that, I think it’s important even in periods where my read isn’t great to keep raising the threshold for how hard I’m working and how much I’m upskilling.

Say month one I’m operating at 25% capacity, month two 50% then month three at 90%, ideally I want those earlier months to trend higher over time. That way I’m not only growing my skill set but also increasing the size of my engine (mental bandwidth).

It’s never going to be linear. We all need time off or have external reasons that pull us away from the market. Still, the goal should always be progression.

Consistent progression in anything is what I think underpins happiness.

I don’t believe in happiness as a permanent state but it’s the best way to describe that sense of movement. The human brain is wired for progression; that’s how we’ve gone from the stone age to skyscrapers.

Most of our lives are filled with distractions that go against that wiring, then we wonder why we’re so unhappy.

As a trader and as someone trying to live a better life, consider how your brain’s wired, it loves solving problems and challenges, not sitting idle.

Even though trading is a very financial and dopamine draining exercise, you can still train your brain to return to those primal instincts that will give you longevity in this space.

Build systems and lifestyles that can last long term, because when things get tough, you’ll always default to the strength (or weakness) of your foundation.

JUST IN: $570,000,000 worth of crypto longs liquidated in the past 60 minutes.

Crypto has turned into liquidation game only