Quote from: Anon136 on August 30, 2016, 01:20:57 PM

Never can quite decide if you are a visionary or a very wishful dreamer.

It's a fine line. I am relatively clever, and rather idiosyncratically creative, so as long as I retain discipline I can reason relatively well, and derive some confidence in surprising results. Training sometimes permits me to produce principled derivations with credible intervals. I don't know what's going to happen, but I know what I want to happen is fairly close to what I predict will happen - close enough to derive a statistical edge. That alignment is why I am in Monero. The difference between the two is the degree of vision vs. dream. As long as I can discriminate between the two, I'm okay.

I've been through enough market cycles of manic euphoria and depressive malaise to be partially immunized, at least, but not totally. I kept buying through the long night, but I couldn't bring myself to post much then. The malaise is demotivating, and I wouldn't want to spread it. Spreading a little of the euphoria isn't too terribly bad, as long as it is balanced with prudent mitigating considerations. I don't usually post when I have a negative outlook since discouraging holders just hurts everyone, for the most part. But if I don't post, that's only one possible reason, so don't infer that I have a negative outlook. I'm not quite as uber as it may appear, but pretty close.

All of that is pretty self-involved. But knowing your strengths and weaknesses is crucial to controlling for them, and hence to success. In investing and trading alike: My worst weakness is emotion; my best strength is patience. That is probably true for most people. Vision undergirds patience. Bullish AF.

In other news: I am looking at you, litecoin. There is no escape.