Previous cycles were much easier to trade than the current ones. I don't know about the earlier ones, like the huge bull market in 2017. Back then, I had just started trading BTC, but I had no trading skills whatsoever. After the March 12th crash in 2020, the US implemented quantitative easing, leading to a global bull market. The entire market rose in sync, a rally that lasted for a year. Then, at the end of 2021, the market began to decline, with US stocks experiencing a comprehensive downtrend. BTC naturally followed suit, moving in tandem, making trading much easier. What's happening now? It's a super-duper hellish mode. The entire global market is chaotic, with funds simply taking and running. From gold to AI, everything experienced a significant surge followed by a slow decline. In April 2026, US stocks and cryptocurrencies were generally performing well, but AI-driven speculative capital created a localized upward trend in AI. However, other sectors of the US stock market continued their volatile movement. The crypto market in April was still in the second phase of a significant decline after a localized surge. Now, in August, AI has entered a downward trend after its final localized surge. Everyone thought BTC would continue its upward trend from July and rise even higher. But what happened? Who could have imagined that crypto would fall like this, fall so drastically? It seems like no one in the market actually profited from this wave of buying and selling. They're either die-hard bulls or bears who were bearish from 60,000 to 88,000. In a chaotic market, trading becomes incredibly difficult, practically impossible. You might be shorting market A and suffering huge losses, while simultaneously going long in market B and making a fortune. Hopefully, this market environment will soon synchronize and enter a comprehensive downtrend, rather than this chaotic mess.