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1) COVID 2020, Stimlus chips +20K, figured I might as well try to learn.
2) 5 years.
3) Started out with a bit of everything, diversified as I heard that more than once from the prior generation. Had 31 ETHERIUM $350/avg. trying to get my ETH node. And then I found stock options.
4) Trial an error at first. Then YouTube. Then I decided to go on reddit and look for a good sub. I found r/wallstreetbets
5) Scalping volatility looking to net 10-15% at 85 confidence. Naked Calls, 0-3 DTEs. Currently working on a put strategy. $1K / day last week.
6) Hell yeah it did. I blew that stimulus money real fast, but felt like I was cheated because I was waist deep in HTZ calls. I knew all that had to happen was the country to open under the then Trump Admin. However, the Blue Congress closed it. Country opens, HTZ starts renting cars, my 300 $7 calls would be worth 180k or more. Too bad, country stayed closed. HTZ got delisted, lost all my profits . From there, I was doing cardboard nose dives with money I couldn't afford to lose to reclaim lost glory. Started using the market like a nickel machine with my day trade limits. I started using trading view and paper traded on the fly with the occasional 2-300 move turing profit. I was able to net about a 35-40% win rate. Now I have a completely emotionless and solid strategy.
7) Biggest difference is timing, looking both ways before you trade, (societal events, Jackson Hole etc, Iran War, etc.), keeping emotions completely out of it. Stick to your strategy.
8) You learn risk management by getting tired of losing money and develop ways to make money while avoiding the losing side as much as possible... If that makes sense.
9) Nowadays, $3,000-$5000k positions. Looking to net anywhere between $300-$750 per trade at 85% confidence.
10) Numbers work if I stick to the strategy. When I don't, I lose. Strategy not working? Look both ways...usually I find a catalyst.
11) Psychology was such a major factor, I took it out. Then I added it back in because I cannot trade blindly. Psych says to stay put and keep to the script. Compare my 300-750 to my pay checks of 225 per day. Be humble and keep to the trade strategy.
12) Everything not working? Losing trade after losing trade? Perhaps I need to alter my charts. Perhaps I need to wait a while for a new market to emerge. Go touch grass. I'll quit for a while, but I'll always go back. It's my vehicle.
13.) When I go bankrupt, have no money, and paper trade my strategy, I win. When I put actual money on my strategy, I win. When I deviate, I lose.
14), 5 years and going from -50k to -30 in my strategy. Has me excited.
15) Start small, use ETFs with the occasional earnings play here or there. Shares only in 10yr companies. Options should never expire eow. ALWAYS the following Monday.

Tell that to any ETH or shitcoin holder. They will laugh.

The oracle-lag intuition you flagged is right, worth making concrete: Aave V3 on mainnet prices ETH/BTC via Chainlink feeds, which only push a new round when price moves past the deviation threshold (0.5% for ETH/USD) or the heartbeat elapses, whichever comes first. In a fast, thin-liquidity crash, several deviation-triggered rounds can land in quick succession, so your on-chain health factor doesn't degrade smoothly - it can drop from "fine" to "liquidatable" in the same block a new round posts.
That's the mechanical reason the 70% LTV / 1.3 HF buffer people are citing here doesn't reliably save you in the fast-gap case: the buffer assumes you get a warning window to react, but if the oracle catches up in one jump, your last accurate on-chain read was already stale by the time you'd act on it. Different failure mode from the slow-bleed case, where the buffer does what it's supposed to.
If you pull the list of the 59, worth checking oracle round timestamps against liquidation timestamps specifically - that'd separate "reacted but was already too late because of oracle catch-up" from "reacted too slowly by human standards", which are different problems with different fixes.

Yeah, “stablecoin” might be a stretch, but I get the point. The boring stuff is easier to appreciate when ETH isn't destroying your portfolio.

ETH is just getting started. I was down 20k + don't matter.

If you can't scrape together $10 in ETH you're probably not ready to start whatever this is anyway

I need $10 ETH for something I want to start

No sarcasm.. but you said it st the very beginning - "*very new to memecoin trading*"
You didn't trade meme, you gamble. In crypto, you trade utility, gamble meme, hold BTC & ETH.
When you gamble meme, you're looking for a good/strong meme, a good easy name, liquidity with less than 10% of the supply being held by the Dev team. Exit when it's mooning, don't hold for the top.
And most importantly, only gamble what you're willing to lose.

There are 1 or 2 big short sellers that keep selling this to move it down and live of the spread they buy something with that doesn't move with the same volume, so probably ETH or BTC, once these short settle/get squeezed sky is the limit, just needs those who see that LTC is a great coin to keep buying it

> If you get a 3x on your ETH stack, but inflation went 2x, you would have gotten a 6x if not for the inflation.
Dude, wut, c'mon, please argue in good faith. We're clearly not talking about 2x inflation or anything remotely close to it. What is it now - 2.6% a year and dropping? Yield vs dilution makes sense in some kind of idealized equilibrium, and crypto, obviously, is anything but (you may have noticed the ETH price chart!). For the time being, worrying about yield and dilution in these crazy markets is just loopy. Situation should be monitored and reviewed.

Lol "when on traffic on chain triples". You don't know the future and you have no clue about what will happen to on chain traffic. Even IF on chain traffic triples or even does a 10x, there is no law, rule, or design in the Ethereum network that says you'll need more validators...and again, if you increase validator amount, you decrease staking APY. Idk why this is so hard for your little brain to understand lmao.
The only way APY goes up is if LESS people stake their ETH.
And there is far more to "price" than just "hurr durr more staked ETH makes price go up durr". Staking has gone UP year after year and yet price continues to decline. So obviously you're wrong there. And let's not forget that more staking= more overall supply because ETH supply is infinite.
Dude just sell your coins you are in way over your head and it sounds like your bags are heavy AF. Or maybe get some meds for that ADD you have? Lol
Have a nice day and thanks for playing!

I am currently a student in Economic Cybernetics at ASE Bucharest (Romania) and will soon start my second year (my undergraduate program is 3 years).
My dream is to break into quantitative finance, specifically as a Quant Researcher (QR). I cannot afford a Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) in the US or UK, so my valid options are in continental Europe. Realistically, I have never participated in math olympiads and do not have the ultra-rigorous math background required for ETH Zurich or prestigious French M1/M2 programs (El Karoui etc). The most realistic and worthwhile paths for me are MFEs/Quantitative Finance master's degrees in the Netherlands, which are among the best-ranked outside ETH and France(from what I ve heard).
*My undergraduate curriculum aligns well with the admission requirements for Dutch programs, so I am not required to take deficiency courses or tests.*
Do I have a realistic chance of breaking into the QR field in Amsterdam with an MSc from TU Delft, UvA, or Erasmus University Rotterdam, or is this just a fantasy? My plan is to work at a top firm there (Optiver, Flow Traders, IMC) for a couple of years and then transition to the UK/US or pursue a PhD.
Are there enough prop trading firms/hedge funds in Amsterdam, and is the local market mature enough to build top-tier CV experience? Is it worth the effort for a Romanian student, or do non-Olympiad applicants typically get rejected?

> That would be the ideal scenario but is a more complex technical change and there is some urgency to sort the stake growth before we cross 50%.
I just don't understand the urgency for a completely insignificant number other than it being a milestone. It's being made to sound like the network is suddenly under threat at that level. Sure, it's a major milestone, but just a milestone nonetheless. A case can be made to make changes to the issuance curve, but if we do it, we need to do it once and do it right. We cannot afford to have to repeatedly visit or change this since it destroys any semblance of sound, consistent monetary policy for ETH. ETH already has enough problems with the narratives to generate a monetary premium. On the other hand, we can afford to cross over 50% of all ETH staked.
So why is it supposedly so urgent? I'm happy we're having the conversation, but it just doesn't feel to me like the urgency is as high as is being claimed.

Ummm... Hi.
Do you think ETH, BMNR, or one of the other Ethereum-related stocks would outperform ETH itself in the next bull run?
If you had to pick one for maximum upside, which would you choose?

I'm not moving any goalposts. I admitted the tx is not confirmed right away. But for peace of mind it showing up immediately is good enough. An altcoin is not needed for that. Any functionality an altcoin boasts can be built on top of Bitcoin in any case. Even ETH has gone down this road despite its followers being sniffy about L2 on Bitcoin early one.
Even if I were to agree that Lightning is not as centralized as Bitcoin - neither are altcoins or ANYTHING else. For small payments it doesn't matter too much anyway.
>Gold doesn’t need to be physically moved every time ownership changes.
It does if you don't want to entrust it to a third party or accept IOUs. Of course it isn't just gold. Any physical asset that has to be moved.
>The relevant question is whether Bitcoin’s enormous energy expenditure provides enough utility to justify it
To secure trillions of dollars yes.
>Finally, recovering from crashes doesn't make Bitcoin an inflation hedge. That’s confusing long-term speculative returns with hedging. An asset losing 40–50% while consumer prices continue rising is doing a pretty poor job of protecting purchasing power during that period.
You're not keeping in my mind that Bitcoin is also a way of storing value, not just a store of value. "Long-term speculative returns" is just a dirty way of saying that you are saving.

Just go to [https://switcher.finance/](https://switcher.finance/) and select SOL > ETH, it's fully decentralized and you get 1:1

Hi there! I can speak from experience as I'm part of the DeFI Saver team. Our app aggregates various lending protocols (incluidng Aave), and offers some extra tools on top (1-tx leveraging, automations that keep you safe from liquidation, etc...)
Our users are primarily those interested in leveraging through Aave - so supplying, borrowing, swapping, re-supplying, etc...
This can be either for opening leveraged long/short positions on an asset (typically ETH) or to capitalize on yield farming opportunities. One of those that is currently popular on our app is the weETH/ETH loop on Aave V4. Aave's offering bonus incentives for the borrow rate on ETH (Merkl WETH rewards), so it makes the weETH loop earn \~15% yield at max leverage.
Some on the other hand, use us to perform highly leveraged stablecoin loops when the opportunity shows up - currently seeing quite a few people with USDC/USDG positions on Aave V4 through us.

you are not wrong, but looking at yield relative to dilution still makes sense
If you get a 3x on your ETH stack, but inflation went 2x, you would have gotten a 6x if not for the inflation.
Self-diluting and selling the dilution vs just selling a small bit of your stack with no dilution ends up the same, no matter the market. Your slice of the mcap is the same. You would owe tax on the self-dilution though 🙃
The urgency is debatable, even the fastest timeline puts this activating two years out or so with the 18 month transition

Greg Abel is gonna buy $100 billion in BTC + ETH the day after Buffett passes

> claiming to be making gainz
Not claiming anything. When price does 2 x or 3 x and I sell, I'd rather have more ETH than less. And whether I pay tax on income or not, either way I'll have more ETH under the current situation. Or put another way, I can sell income now to pay for things, rather than burning through my stack (if I stop staking). Again, I have more stack to sell when 3 x comes along. Not saying the current situation should be permanent by any means, but I fail to see the urgency.