A couple of years ago, I sat in this café in brooklyn and contemplated how crazy it was that I no longer needed to work a full time job. Now, bitcoin is almost 100k and if I'd held I would have been significantly richer, but I wouldn't have sat in this café years ago and had that realization.

Lady. Crypto & NFT HODLer. Not a maxi. Enjoying life in NYC mostly with a partner and puppy. My job is making movies

I've said this before, but in many ways money buys time. If I look at the exchange of what I would have had if I'd never touched my bitcoin, I would have paid in 4+ years of economic uncertainty and full time jobs/hustling in jobs I hated. Not having to work brought unexpected complications itself...

Questions around purpose and generosity, what I should be doing with my time, if being rich made me a bad person, if I'd be able to relate and keep friends, etc. etc.

But truthfully, it's been a gift. In some ways, the money I "could have had" was well spent. So don't play games with what you could have had.

If you have a chance to significantly change your life, take it. Be grateful. Don't get caught in cycles of greed and what if. Chase peace.

And now to the charts...

History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes. I like to look at overbought ranges to help me plan or anticipate price action

This move has been explosive, it feels like post 2020 in some ways. 

To best prepare, if you're in a 2020 price action pattern and you didn't buy the bear, this is what I'd do:

1. Figure out your size for exposure overall
2. Take 50-75% of that and place bids for limit buys on retraces
3. When we stall or range, enter w/25%

If you get something closer to the first chart I shared, you're looking at price action and where wicks hit and using that to inform your limit bids.

Most importantly though, figure out your timeline and where you're exiting. If you're seeing this PA and it feels like we top in 2025, what's your range to scale out?

Personally, this is a ton of fun and I hope we get the banana zone we all deserve but I think Trump is a liar and solid chance he doesn't make good on crypto promises and I think Elon is a grifter. Wouldn't be surprised if a lot of this is hot air. That's what you're protecting against.

Best case for us Trump makes good on his crypto promises and the up only continues. Worst case we have a shorter explosion up and you've figured out where you're scaling out.

This is stuff you should have planned pre number go up, and it's why I haven't cancelled any of my sells from 75-95k.

I see a lot of bullish charts and fractals and sometimes they're spot on, but often they're wildly optimistic. If I'd waited for 100k last cycle I would have round tripped way more than I wanted to. Great rule of thumb is take those uber bullish numbers and halve them for a sell range. That's why mine was 75-100

To conclude, I still think we get a healthy correction. For bitcoin, maybe that's 75-80k. I will not be entering - I am literally holding for the next months with the hope I see new $SOL $ETH ATHs and I execute in a way I wish I had in the past.

$PEPE is my retail fomo bag idea and I've got bids for that.