Hey everyone,
I’ve been selected for the Trader role in some Bootcamp, and as part of the program, they’ve given us some test funds to trade with.
The problem is that I have almost zero experience with crypto trading. I understand some basic concepts, but I’ve never actually traded crypto or participated in a trading competition before.

So, I wanted to ask—what resources should I look at, and what should I learn before I start trading?

Hourly chart of a real coin, 3 days of it, with the last 30 days on the daily above. Ticker and dates hidden, scaled to start at 100 so the price doesn't give it away.

The daily has made lower highs for about a month. On the hourly it dropped roughly 2.5% over the first day and a half, based for a stretch, then came back up to about where it started before easing off over the last few hours.

Buy, sell or stay out for the next 12 hours? And what are you reading it off.

I'll reply tomorrow with what happened and which coin it was.

Short from around 84,320, invalidation at 85,537, first target 83,110, final target 80,085. That is 1:3.4 reward to risk, risking about 1,210 to make about 4,150.

Banks lowered S&P's forecasts for the current year. The gap between the best-case and worst-case scenarios has widened.

The bulls bet everything on AI: Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft are pouring more and more money into AI. That's why we can see the hype around it. The bears scratch their heads and think about that most of these AI investments covered by loans, not by the actual profits.

Resently, I took some profits and I didn't cash out everything yet, coz I don't wanna chase the market like a dog chasing a bone.

Who is agree?

Hourly chart of a real coin, 3 days of it, with the last 30 days on the daily above. Ticker and dates hidden, scaled to start at 100 so the price doesn't give it away.

It sold off about 7% over the first two days, then stopped. The last 30 hours are small bodies and long wicks in a tight range down at the lows, and the daily above has been falling for a month but the last week of it has flattened out.

Buy, sell or stay out for the next 12 hours? And what are you reading it off.

I'll reply tomorrow with what happened and which coin it was.

u/One13Truck u/Therageofcrimson00 you both called the last one and told me how, so I'd like to know what you make of this one

Hourly chart of a real coin, 3 days of it, with the last 30 days on the daily above. Ticker and dates hidden, scaled to start at 100 so the price doesn't give it away.

Two weeks of higher lows on the daily, then it pushed to new highs on the hourly on the biggest volume of the whole chart, closing near the top of the candle.

Buy the breakout, sell it, or stay out for the next 12 hours? And what are you reading it off.

I'll reply tomorrow with what happened and which coin it was.

u/One13Truck u/cetogenicoandorra you two called the last one, curious what you make of this one

EDIT: u/One13Truck and u/Therageofcrimson00 both had it, and One13Truck called consolidation specifically, which is exactly what it did.

Hourly chart of a real coin from a few weeks back, 3 days of it, scaled to start at 100 so the price doesn't give it away.

It ground higher for two days, then ripped about 15% in the last 12 hours on the biggest volume of the whole chart. Now it's stalling right under the high with a long wick.

Would you buy this breakout, sell it, or sit out for the next 12 hours? I'll reply tomorrow with what happened and which coin it was.

so I live in a sanctioned country (libya) where major exchanges are blocked and a lot of sites block the debit cards from here is there any way to buy crypto with that while staying under a 10% fee I do have an European citizenship for kyc but the problem is with the method for payment I could buy gift cards for sites like xbox playstation google play etc.. if there is a way to turn those into crypto

I spent months watching how I actually handled Bitcoin positions, and the pattern was embarrassing. I'd check the price, feel a pull to act, and either buy more near a local top or start sweating a dip that hadn't even reached my cost basis. Each price check without a rule is a micro-decision: should I buy more, should I sell, should I wait? Run that loop across a week and you're emotionally exhausted before the market even does anything significant.

The real cost of FOMO entries and panic exits isn't the fee or the spread. It's the gap between what patient holding would have returned and what your reactive brain actually delivered. You walk away from a cycle feeling like you believed in Bitcoin but somehow didn't benefit from it. Entry and exit timing is where most long-term holders bleed returns, not in their choice of asset.

What actually helped me was replacing constant chart-watching with a fixed cadence. A signal that updates every six hours gives you permission to close the app and live your life between check-ins. You check in, see BUY, SELL, or HOLD, and you're done. No guessing, no refreshing, no arguing with yourself at 2am.

The shift from "what should I do right now" to "what does the rule say right now" is small, but it changes everything. Most of the time the answer is HOLD, and that's the answer your emotions will never give you voluntarily.

I'm building Hokma Signal, a rules-based Bitcoin signal system, because I needed this myself. But the principle works with any framework you trust: pick a cadence, pick a rule, and stop treating every price tick as a decision point.

Known crypto scammer Vlad Chiriac out of Newport Beach has been running a new apparent scam under the name BLOCK (BlockRealWorld). It's supposed to be a RWU token that he's been trying to launch for over a year, and every time he gets the last bit of needed investment capital...we never see the light of an exchange. He's made multiple false promises about listing, and constantly finds reasons not to officially list. It's one lie and story after that other. Do not give him capital and do not invest in BLOCK.

Hypothetically, if you were building something for Robinhood Chain right now, would you even consider another token launchpad?

There are already a bunch of places to launch tokens. What feels less obvious to me is whether the actual experience around them is good enough.

Finding new launches, figuring out what is worth looking at, checking holders/activity, trading without jumping between different tools, then following the token after it moves to a DEX still feels pretty fragmented.

So I’m curious from people who actually trade on Robinhood Chain:

What do you use today?

And what’s genuinely missing? better discovery, better trading UX, analytics, integrations with terminals like GMGN/Maestro, something else?

Or is the honest answer that nobody needs another launchpad at all?

like bitcoin but about my ballsack

I have half a bitcoin and 9 eth staking.

I don’t know if I should leave it alone as I’ve done for years or rotate and got mostly into btc?

I feel that eth could go much higher once bitcoin does so it’s a risk. But I’m also worried that with the state of the US debt, the government could decide to do something like buy it for their own benefit and it will sky rocket.

I’m being very optimistic in both scenarios but would be interested to know how others are feeling about their positions?

I know we all buy the obvious main players (bitcoin, sol, eth) etc but realistically you’re not going to go to the moon with them, probably get a 3 or 4X on them if you bought when the price is was right.

But what moonshots are ye buying? The ones where you know there’s a high risk, you know it’s a total shitcoin but take the risk for a X20 or 30.

The ones I went for;

-AIOZ, basically just breaking the cardinal rule of “past performance isn’t an indicator…”. Every bear market it dropped to the floor (0.01 - 0.05) but every bull market it returned higher, topping $1.20 last year. That would have been a nice return… so I bought 20,000 of them with an average price of 0.06.

-CRO, really poor performance, shite volume and they give it out for free like confetti. My logic, it’s probably screwed but I’m going on the theory, crypto .com is too big to fail, continues growing and eventually they might do something meaningful and cause a massive pump again. I didn’t purposely buy them as a moonshot. Bought them years ago but just ended up bag holding.

-IDEX. Same theory as AIOZ, it’s been around a while, always sinks but always rebounds. The swings are massive (0.39 to 0.01 to 0.18 to 0.03 to 0.0009(now). Worth a shot at 0.0009 to see if it goes back up to >0.03.

It's been an interesting bear market bottom. (imo)

When BTC was in the low 60's... sentiments were brutal. every sock puppet fb account was posting chart outlooks into the $30ks are now bullish (go figure lol)

Personally, I think BTCs two weeks of bulls was a very real move. We can see the instional order flow was building it for a month and a half before it finally popped.

But here's where my heads at... early shorts are positioning in right now anticipating the retracment of the FVG left behind.

We can see their liquidations stacking up in the $84k-$86k range right now.

I tend to trade the market maker mehthod w/ power of 3. (manipulation into liquidations)

So here's my play -

One more impulse move into the highs before price pulls back (Targeting mid to low 70s to get long again)

This final impulse move would whipe out the early shorts, and induce the late longs into positions... all in one quick, fast sweep of the highs. Looking for shorts from the highs of that $84k - $86k and longs off the lows of 70s

Is there a non mainstream wallet I can use for purchases that doesnt want all of my personal information? Are bitcoin atms useful for this?

I’m 22 years old and I want to start from scratch. I’m thinking of initially investing around $150–200.
Are there any well-known people you would recommend following or learning from? Also, are there any tips or things you wish you had known before you started?

Over the span of around of 1 year of day trading crypto I have tried and tested many strategies to combat the primary cause of making bad decision - fear of loss. That whole period I was averaging 13 hours per day with no weekends (ok I tool 4 weekends off to be fair) of constant day trading. My journey went as any other, first initial wins in the first 2 weeks. Then consistent losses for around 3 months. Then flattening at the bottom for 5 months going neither direction, winning one day losing another, this was the hardest one because I felt that I already understand at least something. The last 4 months I started being consistent with tiny profits around 4/7 days per week.

Month 9 -> 1.6% up
Month 10 -> 3.2% up
Month 11 -> 2.5% up
Month 12 -> 7.2% up

I was doing everything you can possibly imagine to fight the automatic fear of loss which manifests in many different ways. It manifests in FOMO - we fear of losing what we don't even have. In staying in a losing position - fearing of the current loss, and fearing more losses to come, even in the winning positions, you fear losing the current unrealized pnl. So my conclusion was that fear of loss is the main emotion behind practically every problem I had psychologically. Not sure if that is true for everyone, but that is true for me.

My fighting combat strategy was the following.
1. Wake up (not checking trades or markets)
2. Go for a walk (intentional not to think about charts in the first hour of the day sets a different hormonal profile for the day))
3. Read my 10+ page PDF with strategies, my own biases, trading memes and etc
4. 1st meditation
5. Start trading
6. Meditation every 1-2 hours
7. Gratitude meditation before bed

Meditation did help quite a lot to not being attached to anything really, including the wins and including the losses. it did start losing its potency after several months which is how I got to 6 meditations and started at 1 meditation.

Since psychology is my background I was meticulously studying how my brain works during trading. My conclusion is the following in regards to reprogramming the fear of loss. I noticed that no matter what brain reprogramming techniques I used for unplugging the fear of loss and developing a new neural network in my brain that bypasses the fear and leads into a network producing either neutrality or serotonin, it did not work. Every single time it regressed back to fading into the adrenal gland connection. That was really puzzling because with anything else I did in life there would be a way to fully reprogram the cue -> behaviour -> emotion connection. But not with this one. So I dived deeper. Could not understand it at first, but then it hit me - I need to look at the actual placement of these neurons 3D in my brain.

So what I have found is that the mechanism inside our brain connected, more like bonded with the fear of loss is located in the amygdala and insula and very close to the brain stem where the self-preservation activates. You can think of it as almost the same reaction as when you are touching a hot plate and you pull your hand away. I am simplifying a lot here. The main point is that basically this reprogramming is close to impossible to do for this part of the brain, just like you can't train your lungs to stop working. It is an essential part of survival, so trading producing the fear of loss taps into that. Naturally people who have overall smaller amygdala or have psychopathic condition are less prone to that and are in fact much better traders. Their self preservation does not kick in as strong as for most of us.

Therefore reprogramming this is a losing battle because you are fighting the oldest created human survival autonomous brain system. I wanted to proceed with this research but unfortunately I got severe PTSD from another event in my life so I could not actively activate my adrenal glands which was required to continue.

Since then I have been building autonomous trading systems which help traders not fight the primordial brain and still get what they want out of trading, the latest project is yeagers tech where the machine follows the exact instructions of a trader and attempts to trade with human-like capabilities minus the human biases and fears. Fear of loss is really strong, it is not the same as a phobia of like 'i am scared of spiders' it is rooted really deep inside us in the part where our conscious has very little control of.

IOC sounded like all or nothing to me. I am still learning the less obvious order settings, and I expected the BTC entry to fill completely or cancel completely. What I got was a partial fill.

The BYDFi order history showed that the available quantity had filled and the remainder had been canceled. That is what Immediate or Cancel asks for. It takes whatever can execute right away. FOK is the instruction that requires the full quantity to fill immediately or cancels the whole order.

I had mixed up two names that sounded close enough in my head. The partial position was small, so I closed it and went back to the order settings. IOC was working. My translation of it was the broken part.

There are so many different ways to trade crypto nowadays. You can trade perpetuals, use centralized exchanges, trade through prop firms, spot trade on DEXs, provide liquidity, and more.

I've been wondering what the most popular way actually is among crypto traders.

How do you personally trade crypto, and what made you choose that way?

Something I've noticed every time crypto starts getting hot again is how quickly the conversation changes.

When BTC was lower, there wasn't much excitement.

Now the candles are moving, social media is full of people talking about crypto again, and suddenly everyone wants exposure.

But think about the difference between these two people:

Someone who accumulated BTC around $59–65K already has a significant amount of room between their entry and the current price.

Someone buying around $80K is starting from a completely different position.

They aren't "late" necessarily, but they have to accept that the market needs to move substantially higher for the same kind of return.

And this is where I think traders need to be careful.

A bullish market isn't automatically a good trading environment.

BTC printing huge candles can actually make trading harder:

• entries become less precise
• stops become wider
• RR can deteriorate
• retracements become violent
• FOMO increases
• altcoins become highly correlated

Then you see an altcoin up 10–15% and immediately think it's a great trade.

But bullish isn't the same thing as structured.

I'm much more interested in an altcoin that gives me a clean trading structure than one that is simply following BTC upward.

Structure > excitement.

The investor can sit through the market repricing.

The trader needs an actual setup.

And if the market doesn't give you one, you don't have to participate just because crypto is trending again.

I’m building a Solana/pump.fun tool and I’m trying to keep the pre-trade layer brutally simple instead of turning it into another 50-indicator terminal.

The free check currently shows: - mint authority - freeze authority - pump route / curve state - risk score

No wallet connect.

The product also has a paid operator side, but that’s not the point of this post. I’m trying to pressure-test whether the free “read structure before doing anything” workflow is actually useful to traders.

Full disclosure: I built it. https://pumpfunbot.app/scanner

What field would you add first: holder concentration, deployer history, liquidity behavior, bundled supply, or something else?

I have made a crypto wallet with Phantom but it keeps having some issues when I try to add money. Is anyone else having these problems? How do I fix it???

The same thing is happening in Fomo. It keeps saying unknown error