I've been trading for almost 17 years, 9 of which have been in cryptocurrency. So far I have seen bull market 3 times and dozens of declines. I started on Wall Street and lived through the global crisis of 2008. I mined bitcoin in 2012 and ethereum in 2015.
Experienced its ups and downs before and after the Covid crash when all coins lost 50% of their value every day. Saw the fall of FTX when #BTC lost 40% of its value in a few days.
I remember well over those 10 years all the excited talk when Bitcoin was rising and how the mood of the crowd changed when it fell. A time when there weren't all those useless memcoins and other shitcoins and blockchain technology was actually considered something mysteriously innovative, not a means of speculation like it is now.
There used to be no fear and greed index, but just like now people had a fear of falling, which turned into panic terror. And after a while it turned into blind optimism and desire to invest the last penny in crypto in the hope of getting rich.
That's why I look at the market realistically and without enthusiasm when it grows and without fear when it falls. Right now I see that we are in a correction phase, that's why I'm talking about it. When the time comes, I'll say we're going up... but not now.
