Igor Chelter

How are you here? Let's get acquainted, since you're here. My name is Igor, an investor and day trader with about 6 years of experience. I started studying this area when I was 19 and I've been doing it to this day. There will be no futures signals or investment training here, I don't want it, so if you came to "point a finger" at where to invest money, then we are not on the same path. Here I share my thoughts, my experience, analysis of projects and stories of financial successes and failures. I am forming a community for communication and a partnership for a hedge fund. This is my interest. In general, that's all, then it's up to you to decide what you want)
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Market makers, how do they affect the price?

A market maker is a company that constantly places orders to buy and sell an asset. If you bought crypto on centralized exchanges, you noticed that when the mark is reached, the transactions are executed almost immediately. This is the merit of the market maker, who simplifies the trading process for you. In this case, the maker earns on a small difference between the purchase price and the sale price.

Since market makers are often hired by exchanges or projects themselves, in addition to placing orders, they can help with a number of other tasks.

1. Can create an artificial volume to show the illusion of the "popularity" of the asset.
2. Keep the price in the required corridor. If you have traded at least a little, you have seen a picture when the asset price has dropped and remains in one range for about 2-3 years.
3. Make a pump or dump. If you think that tweets and news make pumps and dumps, then know that this is not entirely true. Retail, which is dependent on news, does not have such volumes to create a "collapse" of the asset or its sharp growth.
4. Change hands by manipulating the price. This is the process when the asset passes into strong hands, ready to buy and hold the asset.

A market maker will always work in the interests of the company he works for. Retail in this situation often becomes part of the liquidity. But this is how it should be. If someone makes money in the market, then someone must lose the same money. Balance.

#marketmaker #liquidity #cryptotrading #cryptomarket

📅 Weekly Summary: June 1-8, 2025

🧭 Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin: Consolidating Above $100,000, Despite a -3.1% Correction. The Correction Is Natural

Ethereum: Moderate Growth +1%.

Institutional Activity: Gemini Continues IPO Process, Strengthening Market Confidence

📈 Stocks and Financial Markets
S&P500 and Nasdaq Renewed Records: Growth of 1–2% in a Week, Dow +1.2%, Russell2000 +3.2%

Tesla Slid 14.7% Following the Musk–Trump Conflict, but Recovered 3.7% at the End of the Week. Perhaps Regular Manipulation, Markets Basically No Longer React to “Emotions”.

Circle IPO – shares rose +48% immediately after listing on NYSE (after placement at $31, reached $123)

🏦 Regulation and info
FCA (UK) opened access to retail investors to cryptocurrency ETNs - an important step towards legitimization

US labor market: record influx of +139,000 jobs, falling unemployment, rising rates

💬 What does this mean?
Crypto: correction is informative, but does not change the positive dynamics.

Stocks: continue to grow along with the entire money supply

Regulators: signal the return of confidence - FCA, Gemini, Circle.

Macro: markets react to employment and rates - it is important to keep your finger on the pulse

🎯 My final conclusion:
I continue to remain in positions: we are moving into the corridor of reasonable caution. Look for entries at confirmed signals, without panic.

#Crypto #Stocks #Bitcoin #ETH #S&P500

NEO/USDC Review

Today I want to share the analysis of a medium-term deal on the NEO/USDC pair. Initially, I worked on this pair intraday. Later I noticed the global trend and decided that it would be better to hold the position a little longer.

After a small recovery, the price returned to the 5.282 - 6.145 zone. The volume profile makes it clear that this is a high demand zone and we will probably see an upward rebound. Stochastic indicators remain at lower values, which demonstrates that the asset is oversold. For now, I see a likely price increase to 10.169 with possible consolidation, after which a rise to 15.4 and fixation.

I remind you that I do not give any signals, this is just my vision of the market. No one ever knows how the price will behave. This is just my assessment of the probability and my analysis.

Stocks or crypto: what and why

For a long time, I didn’t want to work with stocks. That’s the impression I had that this was something for retirement, and why would I, a young and promising person, need these assets with 10-15% per annum. But I changed my mind after a detailed study of this instrument. And here are the differences I found for myself.

1. When you buy a stock, you really buy a part of the company. All according to the precepts of grandfather Buffett. Against this background, crypto assets do not give you ownership rights. Owning crypto assets allows you to vote for changes within some projects, ensures the operation of networks, but in general does not give you the right to ownership.

2. There is less volatility in stocks. Initially, I perceived this as a minus, but no. After swings from + 50% -50% on crypto per day, you come to the stock market as an oasis where you can work calmly. But here, what is more important to whom.

3. Different volatility also affects profitability. Stocks are indeed a calmer instrument for people without upsets and nervous breakdowns, but you can wait for 10-15% for weeks. Crypto assets can show such results during the day.

Of course, these conclusions are based only on my personal experience. None of this is a financial recommendation, it is up to you to choose what you like best. Personally, I combine both, because balance and harmony are needed in everything.

Why I like the ICP project

🤷‍♂️Reading the comments under the posts of popular telegram channels, you begin to understand why most people lose money in the markets. People are ready to seriously discuss various meme projects, discuss potential and take risks trading with 40X leverage. Although it is difficult to call this trading, but still. But when it comes to really good projects with technology, with prospects, with a project development route, with constant activities, then they start laughing at this because of the low price of the native token on the chart.

One of the interesting projects for me personally is $ICP . Internet Computer is a blockchain platform created to replace the traditional Internet infrastructure. It allows you to launch sites, applications directly in the blockchain, without servers and hosting, like Amazon or Google Cloud. That is, no more intermediaries, servers or centralized companies are needed. Everything works decentralized, faster, safer - and under the control of developers, not corporations. In general, this is the new Internet.

Sounds promising, but the technology is still very complex for most to understand. What new Internet, when dozens of new meme-coins are launched here every day, you need to have time to play in the casino. And such people, not understanding the essence, are looking for only 2 parameters for investing in a project: a cool ticker and high volatility.

The crypto asset market is still young and youthful, which leads to a misunderstanding of many things at the core of the basics, not to mention projects that can become the basis of our future. Give a Neanderthal a book, and he will tie it to a stick.🙉🙈🙊

Why meme coins are so popular?

Frankly speaking, they are called bad for a reason. There are pros and cons to this, but I will write about this later. I remember the times when this trend was just beginning to emerge. The first dog memes DOGE, SHIBA appeared. The projects had no foundation, just an idea, just a meme and nothing more. But something amazing happens. If you were around during those times, you remember how meme coins rose sharply in price. Of course, then they fell sharply down with the same success, but few people want to think about this. Positive news, the crowd effect did their job. A considerable number of people began to enter these projects expecting billions of x, but the miracle did not happen. As a result, disappointment and accusations of conspiracies from everyone around, the entire market was set against 100 dollars of conditional Vlad, James and Lena.

In 2024, Pumpfun was launched, which became popular due to the ease of launching its tokens. And the crowd rushed there. Memes begin to pump money out of the crowd. The greed of the entire sector leads to even greater popularity of the platform. New meme casino. And the feeling that everyone around is making money, there are no deposit losses and life has just begun. Oh, these wet dreams that crash on the rocks of reality. I read an article that a big plus is "attracting new liquidity to the market." I don't see anything good in this, I don't think such liquidity affects the development of the direction globally and will not remain in the market for long. Will new people stay? Of course, those who have earned or those who are already sick. Without the "maturation" of a trader, this money will evaporate as quickly as it appeared. For myself, I find projects with a foundation interesting. Buffett's approach is close to my spirit, when you buy not a share, but a part of a business.

$SHIB $DOGE $PEPE

What should we expect from altcoins?

BTC reaches new all-time high of 75,407k amid US election results. This is great news, but I personally don't invest in BTC, but use its price and capitalization as an indicator in general market analysis. And since my money is not in bitcoin, I am more interested in altcoins and what awaits them.

To analyze the general altcoin market, you can use the TOTAL3 index. This index tracks the capitalization of all cryptocurrencies with the exception of BTC, ETH stablecoins. Today, the TOTAL3 chart shows an exit from the accumulation zone, which means an increase in the capitalization of altcoins. But at the TOTAL3/BTC ratio, the chart loses a strong support level, signaling active inflows into BTC. A similar model is forming as in 2019. If we rely on this indicator, then we are in for a full-fledged bull run in the near future. This is good news, but money doesn't come out of thin air, it has to flow. If the capitalization of some assets has increased, others should decrease, which is why I think we should expect a large decrease in the price and capitalization of assets with a small capitalization. This applies to dubious projects that do not have technology. As for altcoins with technology, here I would review my portfolio, enter at the updated prices and wait for the money to flow to the alt. Before analyzing any project, it is worth starting with a general market analysis to understand what we should do better. Be careful at this stage of the market and do not make hasty conclusions. We are working

Updates on the LUNC network. New tax mechanism.

The LUNA coin has been known in recent years for falling from the top of Olympus and even penetrating the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The project was immediately buried, but not all. The project still has a community that is trying with all its might to return the project to its former glory. This is probably an example of one of the few projects with such a strong community. Most don't pay attention to LUNC, but in a market the majority must be wrong for the minority to profit.

If you carefully look at the news of the project, updates are released regularly. This is how the "Reverse Change" tax mechanism was adopted. Under this mechanism, tax is automatically deducted from the transaction amount before it reaches the recipient's address.
Prior to this update, transactions involving smart contracts could be taxed both when receiving and sending funds. The main feature of the new tax mechanism is the possibility of eliminating double taxation.

Updates are coming, coins are being burned, and the community is working. This project still has a lot of work to do to correct the mistakes of the past, but it is a work in progress. Remember - most cannot make money in the market, most must lose money, most become fuel.

$LUNC $BTC $USTC

I have been following the Terra projects for a very long time. After the crash, I bought some LUNC for my portfolio, because this project in itself interested me, even despite the failure in the system, because the Terra ecosystem is simply incredible. But I became curious about what people think about these coins. It's the same as always. Expert on expert, each of whom understands better than the other what and how it should work and why this project is bad. But I read all this after the crash. What do we see now? The same people, "analysts", "experts" are shouting about how the project community can influence its development and recovery. They are shouting about the possibility of returning the #USTC peg, about returning #LUNC to its previous heights and all that.

And what is the conclusion here? Think for yourself. Don't buy coins only if you hear some positive feedback from a leftist on the Internet. The same goes for vice versa. In addition to the risk, investing is also a learning process. You need to study each project you invest in as if it were your own business.

And remember one more thing, only the patient win!