The Market Was Screaming. I Wasn't Listening. (mistakes 2024-2025)
The Market Was Screaming. I Wasn't Listening. A brutally honest account of my biggest trading mistakes 2024-2025 — and what I'm taking away from the ruins. There's a version of this post where I make excuses. Where I blame Jane Street for manipulating crypto ETFs, blame overenthusiastic analysts on Substack, blame management commentary that turned out to be misleading. All of those things happened. All of them are real. But the market doesn't care about excuses. And neither should I. This is the full post-mortem — three painful trades, bad drawdown, and the rules I should have been following all along. I used Claude AI to rewrite my thoughts in presentable English without grammatical mistakes PART 1 — CRYPTO: ETH, BMNR & BTC The Setup I entered Ethereum with conviction. The thesis was solid on paper: decentralised finance, US government turning pro-crypto, ETF approvals, institutional inflows. I was also following Tom Lee (CEO of BMNR ETH holding company)...