What does a life changing trade feel like? I think before we experience anything in life, we see it twice, once in our head, and once in reality. Tonight, I was thinking nostalgically about the last time I hit a major home run in crypto. I'm talking a massive trade, many multiples on major size. More money than most people see in their life. Sometimes the move itself takes days and other can happen in 72 hours. It makes you realize how crazy the crypto space really is, if you stay here long enough. I'll go through both situations. This is a visualization/manifestation exercise for myself and hopefully it can help you too. The fast trade: Sometimes you just know. For me, it was with $TRUMP, $BOME, $FWOG. There are magical traits about these. If you've been trading long enough, there are just narratives, teams, or collective energy that tells you something is special. The beauty of practice and reps is it allows you know to take a shot with the magic bullet, muscle memory kicks in. You go in with major size and you hold for a few days. • BOME was 20M to 1.1B on size. • TRUMP was 3B to 70B on size. • FWOG was 600k to 60M on size (but i didnt sell). Now I'm thinking about the feeling itself. As weird as it sounds, you don't really feel anything. Your emotions are relatively calm, and you begin to see the amount of SOL/ETH/BTC as magic internet money, just coins in a video game. Consistently take profit along the way with this, but the moment you start to see something truly catch fire and you're early and have size... one of the craziest moments. The slow trade: Slow trades don't usually start out as "trades." They start out as obsessions, passions, and curiosities. My slow trades have been ordinals (especially bitcoin puppets) and runes (really BRC-20s which were the tokens before runes). When these came out, I was just curious about the concept of NFTs on Bitcoin and just bought a bunch to explore. Minting one was actually the reason I ever bought any digital gold. I learned the way everything worked, how to read the mempool, how to use magic eden, snipers, etc. and ended up buying 50+ bitcoin puppets for around $200 - $300 each. Pre-runes I just bought a lot because I thought they were funny. In my mind I was just burning money to explore and learn how it all worked. It worked out well. The feeling his usually starts out with curiosity and is a much slower burn. But as you start to catch wind, you see how big the fire can get. The euphoria doesn't come from the dollar amount in the wallets, it comes from being right. What's after? For me, the hardest part has always been closing the trade. Choosing to remove the crazy constant hits of dopamine and take profit to the bank. Like completely out, not USDC. Sometimes, you're so obsessed with the feelings of good, that you would rather have that then be smart and cash out of crypto. My biggest mistakes from the past was automatically rerolling a large % of the profits into something that doesn't make any sense haha. I get addicted to that feeling of winning. I've never hit a back to back grand slam. I wonder if that's ever happened in the history of baseball. Probably not. This was actually a lot of fun to journal. For myself to reimagine how to feels to make a life changing trade and the type of feelings come with both kinds. The fast trade and the slow trade. Hope it helps you get yours.