Had a chat with friends in the group and analyzed a bit—this wave of moving from crypto to U.S. stocks has been a heavy loss. A big part of the reason is that many people jumped in with the wrong bullet size before fully understanding the depth of the waters. For example, in crypto, when you play with memes, you throw in a few hundred bucks, right? If you lose it all, you’re just betting on a big multiplier return. For mid-tier altcoins, you might go in with $100K per bullet, aim for a 5-8x return, and set a stop loss (since everyone knows there’s no solid fundamentals there). It’s only when you’re dealing with $BTC or $ETH that you’d go in with M-level bullets, and by now, everyone knows their temperament pretty well, so you have a sense of the potential losses. But when you move to U.S. stocks, you see others starting with $500K or $1M per position, and a few thousand bucks feels like pocket change. It’s easy to end up deploying bullets way beyond the scale you’re used to in crypto, thinking that’s the mainstream way to play U.S. stocks. Then you’re bombarded with talk about value investing, perpetual storage shortages, and how AI is the future of humanity. You actually start believing it, holding onto losses without cutting, or catching falling knives at the top. These are mistakes you’d never make in crypto, but you end up making every single one of them in U.S. stocks. This tuition fee is so damn expensive. The key is to always remind yourself not to be greedy. You’re not a genius or a god. It’s better to go slower, earn less, and approach a new market with a sense of respect and caution.