Your mindset is part of your edge. Long term profitability comes more easily with optimism than constant pessimism. If your TL and your thoughts are filled with negativity, it will subtly shape your psychology and make consistent execution much harder. The volatility and rotations in an onchain trading environment are brutal and create one of the hardest, most asymmetric trading grounds for traders. They can influence your mindset faster than anything else, making you believe that everything is a scam, bundled, manipulated, or criminal and that it is everyone else’s fault that you aren’t profitable, but not your own execution. This often leads into a death spiral of emotional overtrading, where you fail to acknowledge that your trading mistakes are rooted in your own daily decision making, creating constant negative thought processes about everything. I was there until I realized that the markets and other participants owe me nothing. It is just me and my trading framework, which relies on positive thinking that markets tend to go up over time and that asymmetric opportunities will emerge somehow. Try to think positive. The future is great and you will make it. Losing your port ATH doesn’t mean the trading journey is over, markets move in cycles, and it can swing back higher. Focus