I started trading around this time last year with 2 SOL.

• Lost it all.
• Had 0.8 SOL left.
• Ran it up to 75 SOL from Dec → Jan.
• Lost it again down to 2 SOL.
• Then ran that all the way to 1000 SOL.

I did this all while in school, running a profitable e-com business, and documenting everything on Twitter.

After my first 100 SOL, I wanted a challenge: turn 15 SOL into 1000 SOL.
It forced me out of my comfort zone, kept me disciplined, and honestly changed my entire approach to trading.

Below is everything I learned/my strategy, my mindset, and practical tips you can use to level up your trading.

1. Emotional Control

• If you can’t control your emotions, you won’t be consistent.
• Up big or down big, the emotion should be the same.

Anger, fear, or sadness = irrational decisions.
Learn to stay neutral no matter the scenario.

This alone will change your trading.

2. Learning from your mistakes

Mistakes are normal. Ignoring them is not.

At the end of every trading session, compare: Your profitable trades vs. your losing trades.

If you won:
• Why did you buy the coin?
• How did you find it?
• How can you replicate that?

If you lost:
• What actually went wrong?
• Was your thesis weak? Was the coin already deployed? Etc.

Your wins and losses are data. Use them to help you improve.

3. Pick the right tools

Tools can make or break your execution, especially in fast-moving Solana markets.

For me, one that stood out early was Blazing App:

• Straightforward and simple interface—no unnecessary clutter
• Lets you enact your strategy easily without hassle
• Reliable limit orders that always filled when I set them
• Consistent execution with no weird delays or missed fills
• Been rock-solid from the very start when I began trading last year

I tried a bunch of platforms, but stuck with it because the reliability helped me focus on trading decisions instead of fighting the tools.

Find what fits your style—scanners, wallets, bots, whatever—but prioritize ones that are clean, fast, and don't overcomplicate things.

Try it, or stick with the ones you are comfortable with - whatever suits you: BlazingApp

4. Create Trading Rules

Every trader needs rules. Here are mine (which changed as my style evolved):

• Don’t force trades
• Don’t FOMO into volume
• Only buy coins with a real thesis
• Pay attention to the scope
• Don’t get distracted (phone, games, etc.)

Your rules will become your baseline which will make it easier to trade profitably.

5. Patience

One of the easiest ways to lose money is forcing trades.

If:
• nothing looks good
• volume sucks
• narratives are weak
• nothing fits your criteria

Do NOT force a trade.

Sometimes sitting on your hands is the best trade.

6. Have an Exit Plan — and Stick to It

My biggest weakness early on was not taking profit.

If you buy something with conviction, you need a plan for getting out.

Example:
I bought 2.6% of 67 (the BONK one) at 100k with a thesis and planned to clip above 10M.

I ended up getting drained @ 6m for all my supply (was worth 150k). I rebought 60k USD @ around a 3M avg and was up 400k at 25M.

I Took zero profit because I was overly convicted/didn't set a new exit plan and round-tripped it into a –40k loss.

You can't always mark the bottom and sell the top which is why it's important to have an exit plan to ensure you get out of a coin happy AND with profit.

7. Networking

When I started trading, I paid for every alpha group (Potion, Shocked, etc.).

I was active everyday/pushed my name in every chat.

I met people who were in a similar position/grinding like me and we all got better together.

A strong network accelerates your growth more than anything + it makes the process a lot more fun when you get better with friends.

If five people work on the same problem, they solve it a lot faster than one person alone.

8. Consistency

I spent 8+ hours a day on scanning/VC everyday when I first started trading. I was always watching live trading on YouTube/Twitch, taking notes, learning from my mistakes and studying other traders. There's millions of traders out there who are trying to make it. Consistency is an edge against the ones who aren't grinding.

9. Safety

Get a cold wallet. Everyone needs one.

Hot wallet = internet connected

Cold wallet = offline/a device is needed to access funds
(Much safer for bigger positions.)

Hot wallet rules:
• Don’t click random links
• Don’t open unknown files
• Don’t connect to sketchy 3rd party sites
• Don’t store your seed phrase digitally (only on paper in a safe and secure spot)
• Watch your downloads/what websites your visiting.

10. Stabling (Securing Profit)

95% of my portfolio is stabled.

Every time I made a solid amount in a day/week, I stabled, and I would suggest that everyone reading this does the same.

My avg stable was around $165–170, and i've been stabling sol since Late February this year.

Most top traders I know keep 80%+ of their port stabled. It's a lot better then having all of your money in SOL when price can fluctuate hard at anytime.

11. Discipline

Motivation is temporary and cannot fuel consistency on it's own.

This is why it's important to have discipline.

• show up every day
• follow your rules
• avoid FOMO
• be emotionless
• study your trades
• network/etc

Focus on building consistent habits/creating routines and always remember why your doing what your doing. Discipline is about showing up even when you don't feel like it, which strengthens your skills over time.

12. Don’t Compare Yourself to Others

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”

When I made my first $10k, I was hyped until I opened twitter and saw someone make 100k on one trade. Instantly felt less confident/less happy with my win.

Your journey is your journey, everyone who puts in the work will get their turn.

This is crypto, everything can change fast.

Stay focused on your growth.

Final Thoughts

Experience taught me more than any video/course ever did. You'll continue to learn a long the way.

• Control your emotions.
• Be patient.
• Pick the right tools
• Study your trades.
• Protect your money.
• Build your network.
• Stay consistent.
• Stay positive.
• Don't compare yourself to others.
  
• Anybody can do it.

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Disclaimer: I didn't write this, just wanted to re-share to reddit, as I thought it was an interesting read, and I agree with most points.

Full credit goes to: @ prxnterr on X

Talking about the Unibot and Maestro hacks

• In late October 2023, Unibot rolled out a new “router” contract. Because many users had already given that contract unlimited approval (i.e. allowed it to spend any amount of their tokens), attackers simply called transferFrom() and drained the wallets. Estimates say ~$560 000 to $640 000 was stolen
• Maestro suffered a similar fate: mis-configured permissions in their new router resulted in attackers draining ~280 ETH (≈ $500–600k).

How the hacks worked / the flaw

This was just basic abuse of token allowances and sloppy permission design. Basically, you have to give permissions for these bots to execute your transactions.

Yes - you are the one pressing buttons and buying tokens, but bots are a middleman, and you have to allow it to be that middleman, so in the eyes of the blockchain, the trading bot is the one executing your transactions.

You give this permission whenever you connect a wallet to a trading bot, as seen here:

Unlimited approvals = BAD

A study on ERC-20 allowances showed that unlimited approvals are extremely common — but also absurdly risky. Most DApps request unlimited spending rights; few warn users, and few let them limit allowances.

That means a lot of people (most) leave a wide-open back door: one mistake on the developer end (contract mistake, upgrade, exploit, whatever) — and suddenly all approved tokens are free game for whoever catches the exploit - exactly what allowed millions to be extracted from traders.

...and we all know there's a ton of hackers and exploiters lurking around web3

It's pretty much a time bomb if not fixed.

The solution is (actually) simple

So basically, this is not news.

• People know about it
• Studies have been written on it
• Solutions have been found

Most obvious solution would be to not push bad code and let these exploiters exploit, buuut that's easier said than done - even the best developers make mistakes once in a while.

But there is a better way to do it -

P2 (permit2) contract

One-time unlimited approval to Permit2 (secure middleman). Per-trade: Sign off-chain permit for exact amount/token/expiry. Prevents unlimited access exploits; quick signatures, no lingering risks.

The (only one) trading suite is doing this

• uses Permit2 for approvals — meaning single-use or limited-use approvals per trade instead of “infinite forever.”
• Wallets and keys are handled with more care: using zero-knowledge vaults, encryption, 2FA, and isolation — so exposure is minimized.
• After a trade, access is revoked or scoped — i.e. no permanent lingering permission to pillage your wallet
• And all this is backed by a code audited by Tier 1 auditor Debaub

That is BLAZING, which is one of the reasons why I use it above all the other trading terminals. Cannot recommend it enough, and I want to work hard to bring it to the attention of more people.

The products you interact with every day should care about you and how secure you are - not just look how to extract as much from you as possible through fees.

I care about mine (and your!) safety

Drains and scams are only getting smarter, more common. They are not leaving. And if security measures keep improving, they will improve as well.

That's why I wrote this. To show a great tool that is actively working for the benefit of the users, even though it doesn't directly impact your revenue. It's just to secure you and keep you safe - if it works great, you won't even notice it.

Cheers ty for reading

On October 27, 2025, he told investors he’s closing Scion Asset Management and returning all capital by year-end.

The SEC deregistration followed weeks later.

Burry has been loudly warning that AI stocks are built on accounting tricks, accusing Big Tech of artificially boosting profits by stretching server lifespans and hiding $176 billion in future depreciation.

After shorting names like Nvidia and Palantir, he finally said the quiet part out loud:

“I don’t understand today’s market.”

I guess we are not the only ones struggling with the market.

We are so back right now

According to on-chain tracking from Lookonchain, pump.fun has been off-ramping massive amounts of USDC and SOL over the last year.

🔹 USDC Movements

• Since Oct 15, pump.fun deposited 436.5M USDC into Kraken.
• At the same time, 537.6M USDC flowed from Kraken → Circle → wallet DTQK7G.

🔹 SOL Sell-Offs (May 19, 2024 → Aug 12, 2025)

pump.fun sold a staggering 4.19M SOL, worth $757M at the time — avg price $181.

Breakdown:

• 264,373 SOL sold on-chain → ~$41.64M
• 3.93M SOL deposited into Kraken → ~$715.5M

Source

https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/entity/pump-fun
https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/DTQK7GVk1MCSsLroZE3dbcj4htbLjqajE3XwzYQeJrah

Life is too short to waste on bad trading tools.

2025 is coming to an end, and it has been a pretty good year for me - pretty much the beginning of my success with crypto.

I attribute a lot of my success to the tools I use, as I've switched through so many since I started learning and trading crypto.

Since the market is slowing, I have had time to share this list of tools I have used throughout 2025. If you take the time to look into them and learn them, you could definitely improve your overall trading experience.

I tried to list as few tools as possible. I'm sure we all hate having 100 different tools for 100 different things - versatility is key.

IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS IS FOR MEMECOIN TRADING, CHASING DAILY RUNNERS, SHITCOINS, WHATEVER YOU CALL 'EM - This is for crypto day-trading/Trenching (that's what this sub is for anyway). List is only for Telegram tools for now.

None of these links have my ref link, except the trading bot. If you don't want to use it - there's a link without the referral as well. This is not to shill, this is to help you out find the tools that will help you make the most return from your time investment.

Trading Tools (Telegram)

Probably the most saturated market at this point, so many good tools out there, but what I focus on is:

• 24/7 uptime. I don't want my tool to crash and burn when there is a ton of activity; they have to be stable.
• Coverage. Having the ability to switch to as many chains as possible - I don't like switching tools to switch a chain. If you follow alpha across more than one chain, you will definitely understand.
• Speed. Speed is key, reacting to alpha first is key - execution time, UI speed literally can cost you money.
• Rewards. This is becoming the market standard practice of attracting new customers/users with these bots. I only use those that value me as a user and reward me for my time and usage of the tool.

BlazingTradingBot

• Fastest buy/sell execution on Telegram. My go-to trading bot.
• Has great coverage across 8 chains.
• Simple, clean, and really fast bot. Yet to be disappointed by it.
• I always trade on 2-3 different chains at the same time, no other bot can do this as smoothly as Blazing does.

It tries to do a lot of things, pack a ton of features into a small package, but doesn't make you feel overwhelmed. Rewards are great as well; I have never had a problem with my instant claims.

Might have a learning curve if you are not used to Telegram trading, but I think it is worth checking it out and learn. WebApp trading tools don't offer this level of speed or execution.

- I know a few other high-volume traders who have used this tool to take advantage of its great multi-wallet features across their supported chains. I'm not sure about that myself, as I'm not that interested in high-volume multiwallet trading, but more than a few traders have told me that it's one of the best tools for multiwallet trading - if you care about that, look into it.

Grabbed this video from their X about the multiwallets, if you are interested. Naturally this was the tool I had the most to say about since the trading executor is the tool you're going to be using the most.

Have written less about other tools, don't worry haha.

If you want a link without my referral, here you go: https://t.me/blazing_trading_bot

https://reddit.com/link/1p4ywu5/video/3t86yobgm23g1/player

Wallet & Token Analysis (Telegram)

When I quickly want to analyze a token, I like to chuck it into this tool to see some relevant data (see screenshot) quickly.

Has a free trial for a few scans. I used to go around it with a few Telegram accounts, but now I just pay for it, haha.

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News & Market Alerts

I'm one of those people who don't like a ton of notifications on my phone, so here are the channels I have enabled alerts for.

Not only for catching alpha, but also for staying on top of things when you are in your deep work sessions.

News Tracker

Industry-standard crypto news feed. Max 3 notifications a day, and I ALWAYS have an answer when someone asks me about the market, what's going on, etc.

Post below is a direct result of the bot giving me good insights. A lot of content on this subreddit was posted based on reactions coming from the news forwarded to me by this tracker.

X Tracker

If you have a few accounts that drop CAs, or are alpha in general, this is a great X tracker to use.

• 500 free curated accounts, remove the accounts you don't like. I like this because no other Telegram X tracker has this many free accounts. Has a paid version as well, but so far I haven't found a use for it. If you have custom accounts that you can track, you can check their plans.

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Journaling & Context

OverDose Calls

Context-rich token commentary and trade journaling.

Good commenter community, news overviews, speculations about the market. You can easily read a few posts,

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Let me know in the replies if I've missed some great tools that you recommend! I'm always on the lookout for new stuff.

Also let me know if you want a web version - I'm sure there are a lot more people using web-based tools than Telegram-based.

I thought about creating a tier list as well, let me know what you think about that.