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Why is it so difficult to make money in this bull run?
The current crypto market is completely different from what it was 21 years ago. After the approval of ETFs, this place is no longer a paradise for retail investors, but rather the territory of institutions, quantitative teams, and top smart people. In the past, during a bull run, you could casually buy a small coin, and it might double by the next day; but now the game has completely changed—when you buy, it drops; when you sell, it immediately rises; when you think about averaging down, it just gives you a twenty-point loss. This is the trick of quant trading. The money you lose becomes permanent profit for them. They either convert it into Bitcoin or directly cash out, and they won’t stick around to hold it with you.
Why do retail investors feel so difficult now? One reason is that the market is becoming increasingly fragmented. There are too many coins, new projects are launched every day, and the funds of retail investors are scattered everywhere. When one person buys 100U, it may not seem like much, but when multiplied by millions of retail investors, it becomes a large pool. The problem is that these new coins are essentially worthless; when you exchange U for them, what you get back is still worthless. When you want to exchange that worthless back for U, sorry, you can only sell it at a discount, and the price changes every day. They take away the U and will never reinvest it to increase liquidity; instead, they use it to buy financial products or convert it into stable returns.
So as a small investor, the only thing you can really focus on is the K-line that everyone can see. News? That's just a setup others have already laid, and by the time it's released, you're the one left holding the bag. Not to mention ordinary people, even Trump is playing the market with an advantage; small investors have basically no chance to go head-to-head with these top institutions.
Institutions play psychological warfare; they understand retail investors' greed and fear better than you do. If you hold on, they will shake you out; if you learn to trade in waves, they will play trends, leaving you either missing out or getting buried. The only ones that can truly be considered "fair" are probably BTC and ETH, because their market cap is too large, and the cost of manipulation is high, which cannot be easily controlled by a single trader. Other altcoins are basically games premeditated by the manipulators. By the time you buy, they have already set their traps; when you see the price rise and chase after it, you will ultimately be left with nothing.
The previous bull run was very simple; buying chips meant making a profit, and the trend was consistent with rising momentum. But now, the market is full of scythes, with funds, speculative capital, and institutions taking turns to harvest. #打榜优质内容#