honestly trading is not my edge and not how I made most of my net worth I use it mostly for downside protection and risk sizing Aka if I am generally bullish I take more risk and vice versa, but I don't long/short majors with size

writing this because people get annoyed at me for being "bearish at the bottom" idc if I miss the inflection point in markets I have some assets I want to own long term, and some I want to own temporarily

my edge is being able to maximize my returns on the temp stuff so when I see something that makes a lot of sense I capitalize on it super heavy

sometimes posting charts and observing sentiment is very useful, but its not an easy way to make money and literally everyone is wrong a lot the actual skill is sizing / risk management get good at that and nothing else matters

not sure why this isnt talked about more, but its very very rare that anyone consistently can call directional moves on any low-med time frames most people cant trade, me included

but if you learn position sizing, asset selection and risk management you can do meh most of the time, even lose most of the time but the times you are right more than make up for it

so if you follow me and I post a chart, its an idea, maybe even wishful thinking but if you want "alpha" its not that from me most of my net worth is in long term plays and i grow a small pile into a not so small pile and rinse and repeat

have gone from 100k to 1-2M more than 3 times now i wish it was from "trading" but in reality it is catching narratives and the meat of the moves, I am usually not super early and also chop myself even when I am right with an idea

the point I am making is to not pretend, the market will humble you know what you are good at, and maximize that well working on mitigating/improving what you are weak on

and to not follow me for directional calls on majors lol, its fun to have ideas and gauge sentiment but picking spots and ripping it hard is what I am good at + never blowing up

so idk if "picking spots" is trading but I almost never buy/sell with size because of a chart, like the recent PUMP>ASTER>XPL>ZEC run was because they made a lot of sense, narrative wise I wish I could directionally trade, if I could I would do it with my long term stuff, I don't though, I just hold it long term

if i was maximally efficient I just wouldn't do anything until "balls tingled" but I find that hard to and is something i am working on if you want to try to make it via trading, suggest paying attention to guys that made it that way, like Mayne for example