Are you always staring at that bouncing green needle on the K-line chart, your finger sliding back and forth between the 15-minute line, 5-minute line, and 1-minute line—how did the coin that just went up 5 points suddenly break through the support level? Someone in the group shouts 'the main force is washing the盘', and someone in the comments shares a screenshot of 'doubling down on the 5-minute line', your heart races, your finger hovers over the 'buy' button trembling: 'Wait a bit longer, the next wave of pumping is about to start...'
First, touch your own wallet, then touch your hot phone. You think you're 'capturing opportunities', but those jumping numbers you are watching have long been written into the 'harvest script' by the main force.
The explosion of altcoins has never been determined by 'patterns'.
Recently, there are always people pushing you 'golden patterns' 'must rise signals': head and shoulders bottom, volume breakout, MACD golden cross... They talk as if just memorizing these 'formulas' will allow you to earn effortlessly. But do you know? The main force doesn't care about these at all. They only care about one thing - is there heavy selling pressure now? Are retail investors' chips concentrated enough?
Think about it, if the main force really played according to 'patterns', the K-line chart would have long become a 'textbook template'. But what’s the reality? How many altcoins were still lying on the floor covered in dust yesterday, suddenly pulling a 20% upward candle today; how many projects don’t even have a decent white paper, yet their prices can soar like a rocket. Why? Because what the main force wants is not 'technical beauty', but the retail investors' 'reactive response'.
He wants to ignite the market's emotions to a boiling point in the shortest time possible. By the time you react 'this is about to take off', when you rush in to take over, his chips have already been distributed at high positions.
The more you focus on short cycles, the worse your losses will be.
So what to do? Retail investors want to 'keep up with the rhythm', they can only adjust the K-line cycle smaller and smaller - 15 minutes is not enough, so they look at 5 minutes; 5 minutes is not satisfying enough, so they check 1 minute. You think you have 'captured the details', but you do not realize that every time you shorten a cycle, the traps increase.
Let’s take the simplest example: on a 1-minute K-line, you see 'three consecutive upward candles' 'volume breakout', thinking 'the opportunity has come'; but the main force only needs to dump 1 million in funds to turn that upward candle into a big downward candle. You rush to 'stop loss', and then they pull it back up, by the time you re-enter, they dump again - back and forth, your transaction fees are paid, principal lost, while they earn a fortune.
What’s more heart-wrenching is that these 'short and quick' altcoins are harsher than Ethereum's 'slow to heat up'. Ethereum rose from 2200 to 3800 over a whole month; but altcoins? A 200% rise might only take 3 hours, while a 300% drop only takes 3 minutes. By the time you are still studying 'is this breakout real', the coin price has already taken a roller coaster ride, leaving you at the top of the mountain feeling the cold wind.
History does not repeat itself, but human greed is always similar.
I remember in December 2024 when I cleared out Ethereum at over 110,000, how many people were cursing in the comments 'have you gone mad', that Bitcoin would go to 150,000, that Ethereum's bull market would fail, and would not break historical highs. When Bitcoin continued to hover around 110,000, Ethereum instead staged a comeback, you finally realized 'it seems to really be rising', but looking back, those who sold at 2200, chased at 4000, and despairingly exited during sideways movement had already given away their profits and principal.
The tricks of altcoins won’t give you time to 'think slowly', isn’t there an old saying that does not give leeks time to think - what they want is your panic, your urgency, your impulsiveness. The more you try to 'seize the opportunity', the more precisely they can harvest you.
Finally, let me say something heart-wrenching:
In the crypto world, 'having skills' is not as good as 'having patience'. Those who earned money through the 15-minute K-line will ultimately lose it back by strength. Instead of staring at the numbers on the screen with a racing heart, why not think: when everyone is rushing to 'board the bus', shouldn’t you first ask - 'who is actually driving this bus?'
Remember: the main force does not cut 'stubborn', only cuts 'impatient'.
So brothers, starting tonight, turn off the 15-minute K-line and get a good night's sleep!
