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Quote from: OutOfMemory on November 02, 2023, 12:58:41 PM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on November 02, 2023, 12:32:37 PM

I had experienced several fat finger incidents, but none of them were even close to as profitable as the June 2022 Binance US incident.. and then I was put down a bit about that since I am claiming that it ONLY increased my BTC holdings by a couple or a few percentage points at most... but it still really feels BIG to have had happened all of a sudden and a preexisting system was in place (not even with the intent to capture such) that allowed for the benefiting from such a mistake.

Yeah, i can actually remember this. You likely have made more BTC by this FFI than by traditionally short-term trading various cr.... shitcoins amongst other assets, which most often are traded in parallel, for one's win to compensate the other's loss.

I don't really consider myself as much of a trader and of course, not a shitcoiner, even though I do admittedly hold some shitcoins.. which I hardly do anything with them except watch them lose value relative to bitcoin.. but they do not matter too much to me.. and as far as my "trading methodology" I consider it to be something of a kind of maintenance and an insurance policy (practice), so the ongoing and mostly consistent sell orders on the way up provide cash to buy back on the way down, and sometimes will provide me with some float for HLB or maybe other kinds of cash needs that I might have from time to time. whether consumption or even sometimes various investments or even some moving of value around that might be more easily facilitated when I have some cash that comes available when the BTC price goes up and largely does not tend to easily run out absent the extreme downity that we experienced mid-2022... and even some scrambling that I felt necessary at various opints in mid-to-late 2022, but then I started to feel somewhat out of the woods once we got into early 2023.. and maybe even feeling more and more relieved as 2023 progressed, and then the FFI of June of 2022 just made a lot of icing on the cake as far as an unexpected windfall and any tightness that I had been previously practicing got put into much greater flexibility, and surely flexibility can cause sensations of freedom - even if maybe there still might be some balancing attempts even during periods of increased feelings of freedom. and maybe that's just how I tend to play those kinds of situations, so far in my sometimes figuring out ways to spend more money.. in ways that are sufficiently comfortable for my own ways of living.

Quote from: OutOfMemory on November 02, 2023, 12:58:41 PM

The Binance FFI was like a present for you, but it wouldn't even have been possible if you didn't set up your sells beforehand, so it actually is the result of your work.

I feel that I have experienced quite a bit of luck in life, and many times the luck can be explained by a kind of persistence in terms of being in the right place at the right time. Don't get me wrong, I have some bad luck in some aspects of life too, so it is not all roses in these here parts.... but surely a lot of places in which things could have had been worse.

Quote from: OutOfMemory on November 02, 2023, 12:58:41 PM

I only DCA and snipe some comparably cheap corn since a year or so, but i'm not unhappy with the minor adds to my stack,

That's how mine usually goes.. kind of difficult to measure whether or not there has been progress, but then sometimes I am spending and buying and then sometimes some extra consumption opportunties come about, so I go through a bit of extra consumption, but it is still not really putting much of a dent in my stash, and maybe those kinds of spending more than I am adding is kind of what (where) I am supposed to be doing at this stage in my life.

Quote from: OutOfMemory on November 02, 2023, 12:58:41 PM

since i know i will sell a bit more into the next ATH, to have some spare "cash" for spending (a little of it) and re-investing into the next bear market (the most of it), so i can compensate for my sells. Remember, most of the corn is dedicated for my kids and wife, so won't be touched, but i plan to add some more BTC to the whole of it.

No matter if we agree to the particulars of each other, we can likely get some senses that there is a certain amount of comfort to feel that we are generally ahead of the game, so we are letting the price come to us, rather than the other way around, and if we are mostly in that kind of a situation, we are likely empowered by the whole situation of having bitcoin in ways that we would not be empowered if we were leading a life without having had invested into bitcoin.

Oh, and by the way, even if we might mostly be ahead of the price and allowing the price come to us rather than our going to the price, we might not really be able to know with high degrees of confidence how long the BTC price might come in our direction and how far it might take us in one direction or another, so there likely may be some times in which we might be experiencing some dilemmas regarding what to do in regards to sizes of positions and maybe how much we might want to attempt to play some price movements that may or may not end up working out in our favor, but if we have some kinds of cushions, then why let the perfect become the enemy of the good.. and sometimes whatever happens is just "good enough" even if it might not be perfect.

Quote from: OutOfMemory on November 02, 2023, 12:58:41 PM

Honestly, i would have done this already, if the double peak of last two ATH's wouldn't have occured so early, compared to the prognosis of about $100k, where i would have started selling some corn for re-stocking later. So let's all "thank" SBF for making this impossible, and let's hope for the next ATH, which will most likely bring some energy back into the current bullrun that is slowly emerging in these now days...

Not going to blame SBF for everything, even though surely there may well have had been some peaks way lower than they should have had been and some dippenings BIGGER than they should have had been, but we really cannot know for sure on those kinds of things in regards to what happened or what should have (or could have) had happened. I rather attempt to live in the "is" and surely, we have to attempt to prepare ourselves for things that might happen, even if they might continue to be things that we had not expected or that might end up going against us in the coming years... such as downity or sideways rather UP or even UP that ends up being way more whimpy (again) for reasons currently unknown.

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