$17 trillion has vanished into thin air. Your "digital gold" faith is being torn apart by Wall Street and bombs alike.

Brothers, stop scrolling on your phones.

I don’t care if you’re already wiped out or hesitating to buy the dip—pause first and listen to what I have to say.

In the past few months, $17 trillion has evaporated from your wealth freedom dreams.

What does $17 trillion mean? Enough to buy all the Bitcoin in the world at $120,000 each, and still have tens of trillions left to burn for fun.

Just this past Friday, Nasdaq entered a correction, the clouds of war with Iran loomed, and oil prices firmly stayed above $100. Then what happened?

COIN dropped 7%, MSTR fell 6%, and miners started falling like dominoes, with declines of 5% to 8%. The Bitcoin you hold also broke below $66,000, approaching a two-month low.

This isn’t a black swan; it’s boiling a frog in warm water. And now, the water temperature has reached 90 degrees. Are you still asking, “Is the bull still here?”

You think this is just another bull run? Wake up—this time is different.

Have you noticed a pattern? Since the Iran conflict began in late February, the market has developed a disease: a deadly condition of “happy Mondays and fleeing Fridays.”

On Mondays, everyone breathes a sigh of relief—phew, the end of the world didn’t come—so they push the market up 3%. Then on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, confidence gradually erodes. By Thursday and Friday, geopolitical uncertainty becomes a knife at everyone’s neck. No one wants to hold positions over the weekend because nobody knows if bombs will fall on oil fields.

This is classic weekend panic. Your leveraged longs become bait from Monday, ready for a precise explosion on Friday.

The magnificent seven giants have turned into the tragic seven brothers—gold, silver, Bitcoin all fall, even safe-haven US Treasuries are dropping. You thought your digital gold could hedge risk? Sorry, in the face of real global risks, all risk assets have one name: lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

What’s even more heartbreaking? The Fed’s attitude.

We used to criticize Powell, calling him hawkish, accusing him of raising rates. Now? Now they’re “torn between options, simply doing nothing. Oil prices rise, inflation threatens; labor markets weaken, economy risks recession. Rate hikes or cuts? No one knows.”

But the market knows.

Investors have jumped from the fantasy of multiple rate cuts this year straight into fear of whether to hike again. Think about it—when funding costs are still rising, why would your assets go up?

The scariest part isn’t the decline; it’s the expectation chaos.

Just when we thought Bitcoin was an inflation hedge, it fell 40% along with tech stocks. Just when we thought halving was an eternal bullish signal, the market tells you that geopolitical gunfire rings louder than any halving fireworks.

The biggest risk in a bull market is thinking it’s still here when the cycle has already turned.

Let’s look at the data—more real than any candlestick chart.

In the past 24 hours, nearly $300 million in longs have been liquidated. This is the fifth time in ten days that longs have been crushed.

Notice something? The market has formed a new consensus: everyone bets that war will pump the market, only to find that war just causes diarrhea.

Those crowded longs, thinking they’re on the right (profitable) side, end up fueling the main players’ gains. Every Monday’s big green candle is just setting up for Friday’s big red. This script has been playing for two months.

And altcoins? Don’t even get me started. XRP, SHIB—interest in shorting is soaring. Funding rates have been negative for days, meaning even the most aggressive traders are reluctant to go long. Everyone’s seeking safety, hedging.

Even the so-called “market’s weather vane” at $75,000—after hundreds of millions in options expiry—has lost its magnetism. Without that attraction, it’s a bottomless abyss.

When even storytellers start fleeing the market, your holdings are just lines of code.

Of course, some are rising. ONDO, for example, surged 8% on news of a “tokenized ETF.”

But look carefully—during a broad decline, the outliers aren’t strong; they’re just small. Like a piece of driftwood floating higher than a battleship in the ocean—not because it’s powerful, but because it’s light.

In a liquidity-starved market, any small move can cause a rally, but any gust of wind can send it crashing back down.

During a tide, don’t envy the floating driftwood—check if your boat’s bottom is already leaking.

So, what should we do right now?

First, abandon illusions and face reality. Stop believing in an eternal bull market. The core variables now are: war, oil prices, inflation, and the Federal Reserve. Of these, three are bearish, and only one is uncertain. How do you see it playing out?

Second, steer clear of leverage—reduce your exposure. The $300 million liquidation yesterday is a warning. Those who survive aren’t the smartest; they’re the most afraid to die.

Third, reevaluate your beliefs. If Bitcoin is just an alternative to the Nasdaq in your mind, then this decline is a tax on your perception. Do you buy it because it can make you rich overnight, or because it’s truly an uncorrelated asset? If you can’t answer that, you’ll never escape the cycle of “buy on Monday, lose on Friday.”

Finally, a word of advice:

Only when the tide recedes will you see who’s swimming naked. And even scarier, many times you think you’re wearing swimming trunks, but you’re just in a plastic bag.

Don’t buy the dip. Don’t get caught up in the hype. This weekend, turn off your computer and go outside. Next Monday, whether prices go up or down, face this crazy world with the coolest head.

Because life is more important than money. And principal is more important than getting rich quick.

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