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1. Never traded derivatives. I'd open Delta, read news for an hour, talk myself out of it, close the app. Every time.
2. Built a small thing that suggests 3 trades a day. The point wasn't a genius signal, it was ending with a decision instead of more reading. One critical update that really fixed things was to have a smart money tracker embedded in the recommendation engine.
3. Hard rules baked in. Stop loss always, leverage capped, splits the money into three sizes with the risky one getting the smallest slice, and it never shows the win case without the loss case beside it.
4. Results: risky calls got wrecked, mostly XRP. Boring BTC and SOL kept me roughly flat.
5. The weird part is my hesitation dropped even without making money. My blocker was never information, it was not knowing how I'd get out. Exit decided upfront made entering easy.
6. A bigger gap showed up after. I had no clue what to do with an open position. The app shows numbers but never says whether you're in trouble. So I added a checker that reads my own screens and tells me how much is riding on one trade, what it costs if it goes wrong, and how much I'm losing to fees and funding versus my own calls. It caught something ugly on my own trade that I'd stared at repeatedly.
7. First profitable close earlier this week. Tiny. Turned 2K usd to 2.5K basically.
For the regulars here, what actually made you comfortable pulling the trigger? A system, sizing, or just doing enough trades that it stopped mattering?
Would love for someone to check this out and give me more feedback. I think I can open this up for a few serious folks.

Since the top comment is asking whether this is a bull trap, here's what the base rates actually say. I pulled every day across 8 majors (BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, BNB, ADA, LINK) where the coin closed up 15% or more on the day. 253 instances. Then I looked at the following day.

57.9% of those next days closed red. 30.3% closed more than 5% down. 13.8% closed more than 10% down.

But the average next-day return is +0.92%, comfortably above the +0.21% baseline for a random day.

Both of those are true at once, and that is the whole point. The median next day is -1.51% while the mean is positive, because 14.6% of the time the thing rips another 10%+ and drags the average up by itself. The distribution is barbell shaped, not centered.

So "is it a bull trap" is the wrong shape of question. Most days after a big pump are red, and the ones that aren't are occasionally enormous. If you size for the average you get run over by the median. If you size for the median you miss the tail that pays.

Method: daily candles, Binance spot, up day measured close vs open on the same candle. Happy to be told this breaks somewhere I didn't test.

No clue what "argo" is. Just use a switcher.fi and select BTC to SOL, nothing easier

🌍 **Macro**
Falling long-end Treasury yields and a weaker U.S. dollar sharply improved liquidity conditions. The 30-year Treasury yield fell nearly 10 bps to around 5.19%, while the DXY dropped below 99. Risk appetite recovered, with crypto-related equities strongly outperforming.
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📈 **Market Snapshot**
• BTC: $69,339.10 (+7.13%)
• ETH: $2,253.27 (+17.49%)
• NASDAQ: 26,331.09 (+0.16%)
• S&P 500: 7,707.98 (+0.21%)
• F&G: 62 (Greed)
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🧠 **Market Take**
BTC broke decisively out of the $64K–$65K range, cleared $68K and briefly pushed toward $70K. More than $1B in shorts were liquidated within an hour, accelerating the move.
Key levels:
* Resistance: $70K
* Support: $68K–$69K
* Trend: Bullish breakout
ETH and higher-beta assets are outperforming as risk appetite broadens across the market. BTC holding above $68K would strengthen the breakout, while a quick rejection back below $68K could trigger profit-taking after the short squeeze.
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🔥 **Hot Tokens**
* CACAO: -89% at one point after a Maya Protocol exploit drained \~$1.7M in assets
* TRX: +0.4% ahead of planned TVM compatibility upgrades
* SOL: +10%+ after Solana reduced mainnet slot time from \~400ms to 350ms
* TRUMP: +25% as Trump-related crypto narratives returned with the broader market rally
* HYPE: +19% after Trump signaled a compliant path for Hyperliquid in the U.S.; volume surged \~3.5x
* PONS: +50% after reporting $2.5B+ first-month Robinhood Chain volume and 28%+ of supply burned
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📰 **Key Updates**
* U.S. Treasury: Expanded long-term Treasury buybacks from $2B to $4B per operation
* Trump: Urged Congress to advance the CLARITY Act during a White House crypto meeting
* Kalshi: Filed COPPERPERP copper perpetual contract with the CFTC
* OCC: Plans to finalize GENIUS Act payment stablecoin rules in November
* GnosisDAO: Approved transition toward the Ethereum Economic Zone and shared Ethereum security
* Grayscale: Filed its fourth amendment for the Zcash Trust, seeking NYSE Arca listing
* KITE: Foundation launched a 1:1 contract migration following a hacker attack
* Ethereum: Glamsterdam roadmap continues ahead of the planned upgrade
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👀 **This Week to Watch**
* Aug 20: FOMC minutes; U.S. jobless claims; ZRO unlock (~~$19.9M); KAITO unlock (~~$11.5M)
* Aug 21: U.S. August PMI; Japan CPI; AKE unlock (~~$21.3M); GWEI unlock (~~$5.2M)
* Aug 22: SENT unlock (\~$4.2M)
* Aug 23: SOON unlock (\~$3.9M)
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⚡ **Quick Take**
**BTC just broke the range.** Falling Treasury yields, a weaker dollar and a massive short squeeze pushed BTC toward $70K, while ETH surged nearly 17.5% and broader crypto beta accelerated. **$68K is now the key level to defend; holding it keeps the breakout structure intact, while $70K is the immediate psychological target.**
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Man, I should have titled this buy Hyperliquid HYPE coin and $PURR their digital treasury that trades on the NASDAQ. PURR was up 30% today with HYPE coin sitting on a 20%+ gain right now. Trump shouted them out bc you can have your funds seized bc they do no KYC (know your customer). You just plug in any crypto wallet or phone number (where applicable) and you can trade. Super low fees and perps (perpetual futures) are so much better than futures or options. They don’t expire, they are 24/7,
Honestly, their whole strategy is really smart & they just upgraded some protocols so it’s been a bit choppy and so I bought as much as I thought was ok. The only crypto I hold is USDC, SOL and HYPE. Oh and some wrapped ethereum I use to borrow against at times like this where I can get a 4.25% loan on CBEth and the high yield lending is paying 7.33%
Honestly, I’m not a crypto guy until I saw Mastercard and Visa buying stable coin. Then Mastercard tried to buy Zero Hash for $15 billion & they said no. Then I looked into [Zerohash](https://zerohash.com) and ended up in my crypto journey looking at fees to transfer money as unbelievably low, like fractions of a penny. Something that would cause Mastercard and Visa to have their shares plummet.

I sure hope you’re right. I have more than I’m comfortable with in SOL and need upper 140s for break even

Honestly, JitoSOL is still popular not sure about "the best" but your asset remains liquid so you can still trade it while it's staked. Traditional staking you lock up your SOL (it takes a few days to lock at the end of a epoch). While it's locked you can't trade it and it gets a certain APY. When you unstack it you have to wait a few days, or whenever the current Epoch ends. I recommend the Kyzzen validator if you're going to go the traditional route, but if you want to remain liquid use Jito.

FBI prolly won't be able to do shit to sellers in China - but yea if/when you figure it out (assuming it's within the return timeframe), they'll almost always send a return label that doesn't match the original shipper and you'll end up SOL. If you buy from eBay I'd always note the original shipper and if this happens don't return the items with the postage they send. Instead, immediately contact eBay customer support and they'll open a case and give the seller 5 days to reply - they've never replied in my experience, so I get my money back *and* get to keep the fakes and engrave "FAKE" on it. Handy to have them for future reference - fakes are getting pretty damn good these days, it's only a matter of time before they figure out how to replicate security features...

This is the absolute worst you can suggest to anyone if you actually enjoy SOL moving up in price.
Do NOT stake on exchanges.

Bring back the 1 SOL and a Dream days too!

Staking is the action to invest in the security of your favorite blockchain, and earn some bucks for your responsability. If you use your own wallet, it's very safe, as much as you take care carefully of your seeds. Solana has no slashing yet so you can't loose your SOL. Choose some validator learning about them in Solanabeach.io
Check your investment from time to time because validators can change the fees unexpectedly and they can go offline, and you will not earn anymore. Anyway your SOL are protected by the Solana blockchain, so you can't loose them. Don't hesitate to ask

Geez, what happened to ETH? I am convinced it's pumping so hard because I don't have it anymore in my portfolio. Bought some SOL and BNB on the way down though.

im out, quick 10% profit on SOL

Just go to Jupiter and swap your SOL for JitoSol if you're self custodied. If you're on an exchange just use their liquid staking token. 

I use a VPN and trade in hyperliquid and phoenix but if you don’t wanna get a vpn and you only wanna trade BTC then I’d look into jup perps on solana. Available to Canadians to trade ETH/BTC & SOL with up to like 200x leverage

I want to buy SOL and earn by staking, which platform or wallet do you recommend and how safe is it? Are there any risks?

all times in this are going to be UTC+9:30 and its being used on SOLUSDT.P . Indicators used are the anchored vwap (anchored to 5:00am UTC+9:30 with +-1,2,3SD bands) and FRVP. my session starts at 15:00 catching the end of the Asia and the start of the London session as volatility picks up, i use the FRVP to get an overall read on the previous day and then a separate one for the pre session, i then apply auction market theory to both days to get an idea as to what is coming up in the session, i use all of that to discern if i should be focusing on longs or shorts. rejection trades are taken from the standard deviation bands with TP placed on the nearest band, stop loss is placed just behind the opposite band. trades aren't taken from the vwap itself as to much chop happens there or from 3sd band, that band is just for stop loss placement. stop loss is capped at 0.75%. rr is always negative but is carried by win % which was sitting around 65.7% (65.7% over roughly 900 trades) it has an average win of 0.517 and average loss of 0.68, there are some cool down rules and stuff in place so that i don't get spam stop outs or over trade. in the screen shot it decided the daily bias was going to initially be shorts. this is Tuesday 18th Aug.
I've recently gone live with this and have been rinsed, so any flaws you can see please point them out and ill try to fix them, im trying to work out a way to change it up so i can have positive RR and im looking at using the 3sd for when price is extremely over drawn and fading it back to vwap, it is in the very early stages of being tested and has a horrid w% but the average TP is in excess of 1.1% and it can have a pretty small SL cap as it either reverses or keeps running. its very susceptible to trending markets though.

It's my second biggest position within my hodl portfolio so yes I agree. I'm still down but remaining more than confident that SOL will melt faces might reaching even $1k

# Stop using Axiom blindly. Terminal might be the better deal now.
Axiom is still one of the best memecoin terminals. I'm not going to pretend otherwise.
But since [Pump.fun](http://pump.fun/) acquired Padre and turned it into **Terminal**, I think the Axiom vs Terminal comparison has become much closer than people realize.
And if you actually trade volume, there's one difference that's hard to ignore.
# 1. 35% fee cashback
This is the biggest reason I'm considering Terminal over Axiom.
Terminal offers **up to 35% cashback on trading fees** with the boosted referral rate.
This isn't XP, points or some potential future reward. It's cashback on fees you're already generating.
Axiom has cashback too, but its standard cashback increases through volume tiers. Its published fee structure starts around a 1% platform fee and can fall to roughly 0.75% at the highest cashback tier.
So I'm not claiming Axiom gives you nothing.
The point is that **Terminal can give you the 35% cashback rate from the start with the right referral**, instead of requiring volume to reach the highest cashback tiers.
If you're barely trading, who cares.
If you're doing serious volume, the difference starts becoming real money.
# 2. Axiom arguably still has the edge on execution
This is one area where I'm not going to bullshit and claim Terminal wins at everything.
Terminal advertises roughly **300ms average execution**, which is already extremely fast.
But Axiom gives traders a lot of control over priority fees, validator bribes and MEV routing. If you know what you're doing and you're willing to pay for priority, Axiom can be extremely fast.
And on fresh launches, execution matters more than saving a fraction on fees.
So if your entire strategy is fighting for entries where a few hundred milliseconds can change your fill significantly, **I'd still seriously consider Axiom.**
For normal active trading though, Terminal is fast enough that I'd personally start caring much more about how much I'm paying over hundreds or thousands of trades.
# 3. [Pump.fun](http://pump.fun/) owns Terminal now
This is probably the most interesting change.
[**Pump.fun**](http://pump.fun/) **acquired Padre in October 2025. Padre then became Terminal.**
That's a pretty important detail considering what most of us are actually trading.
[Pump.fun](http://pump.fun/) didn't acquire a trading terminal for fun.
When the acquisition was announced, the stated plan included improvements to **data, speed, trading incentives and the overall trading experience**.
[Pump.fun](http://pump.fun/) already owns the launch side of a massive amount of Solana memecoin activity.
Now it also owns the terminal.
That doesn't automatically make Terminal better than Axiom today, and I'm not going to speculate about secret execution advantages that haven't been proven.
But strategically, it's pretty obvious why Terminal is worth watching.
[Pump.fun](http://pump.fun/) now has a direct incentive to make its own terminal competitive with Axiom and the other major trading interfaces.
# 4. That's basically my argument
I don't care that Terminal has stop losses.
Axiom has them.
I don't care that it tracks wallets.
Every serious terminal does that.
And I'm not switching terminals because one of them has a prettier UI.
For me the actual comparison is:
**Axiom**
→ excellent execution
→ extremely mature Solana trading experience
→ more execution/fee configuration
→ established user base
→ volume-based cashback system
**Terminal**
→ \~300ms advertised average execution
→ up to 35% fee cashback
→ cashback available immediately with the right referral
→ owned by [Pump.fun](http://pump.fun/)
→ [Pump.fun](http://pump.fun/) specifically plans to improve its speed/data/incentives
→ also supports SOL, ETH, Base and BNB
That's why I think Terminal has become underrated.
Axiom might still win when you're optimizing purely for the fastest possible entry.
But once execution is already fast enough, **effective trading cost starts mattering a lot more.**
# If you want to try Terminal, don't use the standard signup
This is the important part.
This is my affiliate link. If you don’t want to use mine, you can use someone else’s, but make sure you use one so you can get **35% cashback instead of the standard 10%**.
[**https://trade.padre.gg/rk/piraxxs**](https://trade.padre.gg/rk/piraxxs)
If you've actually done significant volume on both Axiom and Terminal, I'm curious which one you ended up using and why.

SOL up by 3%? Ill take it