What Has Silicon Valley Been Panicking About These Past Two

Drawing lines relies entirely on intuition: on the same chart, ten people can draw ten different support and resistance lines. Which one is actually effective? It's hard to distinguish between real and false breakouts: you see the price breaking through the resistance level and jump in, only to find it's a false breakout and you get stuck; you see it breaking down through the support level and stop loss, only to have it reverse sharply in a big V pattern. Information overload: candlesticks, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, trading volume... there are too many indicators.

The recent rapid collapse of the South Korean stock market has made many traditional retail investors, who are accustomed to "holding on," experience the fear of being forcibly liquidated by the system. Many people's principal not only vanished instantly but they even owe huge amounts to financial institutions. What exactly is "liquidation"? Why, after adding leverage, does a small decrease in the market cause all the money to evaporate?

In the past, whether during the 2008 financial crisis, the 2020 pandemic, or the early stage of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, global capital would flow significantly into U.S. Treasury bonds. The reason is simple: U.S. Treasury bonds have always been regarded as one of the safest assets in the world. When the market is in panic, investors usually choose to "preserve the principal" first, thus buying large amounts of U.S. bonds.

Many people see it simply as a trading tool, a point for buying and selling. In my view, this is not just a simple operational strategy, but a set of rules to constrain one's own trading, which can help one navigate the market in the long term.

Since the launch of the CXMT perpetual contract on the Hyperliquid platform on July 15, "smart money" on the chain has been racing to take positions. As of the time of writing, there are a total of 4 CXMT whale positions on the chain with a position value (PV) ≥ 1 million dollars, with a total nominal value reaching 8.182 million dollars.

This showdown announced the birth of a new normal: from now on, crypto users no longer need to cross complex cross-border financial thresholds; with just one crypto wallet, they can easily configure the most essential technology assets globally with a single click.

I don’t know when it started, but the familiar circle quietly became quiet, the desolation became the most real backdrop of the moment.

As the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) declassified the 927-page annual presidential financial report, a financial and constitutional storm triggered by the world's top political IPs was pushed to the forefront.

The position of opening a position is far more important than judging the direction of rise or fall.

Apple just raised prices across much of its product lineup.

In the cryptocurrency market, very few people can have the three labels of "NFT Godfather," "On-chain Giant Whale," and "Liquidation King" like Huang Licheng (Machi Big Brother).

No matter how low the starting point is, as long as the direction is correct and you persist, you can produce amazing explosive power.