In today's cryptocurrency world, it is no longer the paradise for retail investors to mine gold as it was before 2021. With the approval of ETFs, this place has transformed into a gladiatorial arena for institutions, quantitative teams, and top elites. The miracles of the past bull market, where one could buy small coins with their eyes closed and wake up to doubled assets the next day, are now tales from a distant land. Now, quantitative trading is everywhere, and retail investors are like flies caught in a meticulously woven trap; buying leads to drops, selling leads to rises, and averaging down results in being deeply trapped. The money lost by retail investors has become their permanent profit, which is quickly converted into Bitcoin or directly cashed out, with no intention of sticking around.
It is difficult for retail investors to make money, and a key reason for this is that the cryptocurrency market is becoming increasingly fragmented. New coins and projects are emerging crazily like bamboo shoots after a rain, and the funds of retail investors are ruthlessly dispersed. Each person's investment of 100 U seems insignificant, but multiplied by millions of retail investors, it becomes a massive pool of funds. However, most of these new coins are worthless air; you exchange your hard-earned U for air, and when you want to convert back to U, you can only do so at a significant discount, and prices fluctuate rapidly. Once the funds are siphoned away, liquidity disappears and is used to buy financial products or converted into stable returns.
For small retail investors, news and information are all traps set up in advance by others; by the time you see it, you are already the unfortunate last buyer. Not to mention ordinary retail investors, even Trump has entered the trading arena; small investors trying to compete with these top institutions is like a moth to a flame.
Institutions are well aware of retail investors' psychology and exploit everyone's greed and fear to play psychological games. If you hold on tightly, they will wash out the market madly; if you learn to trade in waves, they will manipulate the trend, making you either miss the opportunity or get deeply trapped. Only BTC and ETH are relatively 'fair'; after all, their large market caps make them harder to manipulate by a single player, while other altcoins are basically games for the big players to harvest profits. By the time you buy in, the big players have already set their traps, waiting for you to chase in during a rise, ultimately leaving you completely cleaned out.
In the past bull market, the trends were clear; buying chips meant making money, and there was plenty of upward momentum. But now, in the cryptocurrency world, there are people wielding sickles everywhere, with funds, speculative money, and institutions taking turns to reap profits. For retail investors in this hellish battlefield, making money is truly difficult! Follow@魔术手宝哥 to navigate the cryptocurrency world.#山寨季何时到来？ #美联储取消创新活动监管计划