ETH Just Gave You a Brutal Reminder

Let me tell you what went down.

On Monday, Aug 25, I signaled inside Discord that ETH had closed with a bearish candle.
I told my group: “If this close doesn’t get invalidated, expect trouble.”

That’s exactly what happened.

Retail got baited by last Friday’s pump, screaming ETH 6k.
Meanwhile, I told my group to take profits at 4.6k and set stops.
We also secured Solana at 199.

The next morning?
ETH collapsed from 4.8k → 4.3k.
SOL dumped to 186.

Guess what?

We entered at 1.6k

If you didn’t have a stop loss in place, you got wrecked.
If you listened to me, you walked away with profits locked and capital protected.

The Harsh Truth

Most traders don’t understand this game.
They think stop losses are a nuisance.
They think taking profit early is “missing the big move.”

Wrong.

A stop loss is not weakness. It’s discipline.
Taking profit is not fear. It’s survival.

You can always re-enter the market.
You can’t re-enter if you’ve blown your account.

I’ve said it before:
The key isn’t catching tops and bottoms.
The key is losing less than the herd.

That’s what happened this week.
Retail got blindsided.
My group stayed alive.

What This Proves

1. Market makers will always punish greed.
   They pumped ETH into resistance, painted a bearish candle, then flushed it.
   Tourists piled in, smart money scaled out.

2. If you’re not thinking defense, you’re already dead.
   This cycle is not over, but that doesn’t mean straight lines up.
   Pullbacks will be violent. Protection is mandatory.

3. Survival is the bare minimum.
   You don’t have to be a genius.
   You just have to outlast the dumb money.

The Current State of ETH

Here’s what I’ll tell you:
ETH is still holding long-term market structure.
This isn’t the end of the cycle.
But what happened this week is your warning shot.

Every pump leaves traps. Every dump leaves opportunity.
But only if you know where to look.

Right now, the difference between amateurs and killers comes down to one thing:
Who has a plan, and who’s just reacting.

What You Don’t See

In Discord, I’ve already laid out the exact levels I’m eyeing for re-entry.

Where I’ll scale in.
Where I’ll redeploy size.
Where the next bounce becomes the next leg higher.

That’s the playbook.

But I’m not sharing those levels here.
If you’re outside looking in, you’ll keep guessing.
You’ll chase green candles and panic on red ones.

Inside my group?
We don’t guess. We execute.

Key Lesson This Week

Hopefully this wake-up call saves your butt in the future:

• Set your stop losses when times are green.

• Take profits when the herd is screaming higher.

• Always be prepared for the dump no one “expected.”

Because the moment you think the pump will never end, that’s when the market makes sure it does.

My Final Word

ETH is not finished.
This cycle still has juice.
But if you can’t protect capital during pullbacks, you won’t be around when the real mania hits.

Most people don’t survive to see the big run.
They get chopped up in the resets.
They let greed blind them.

Not us.
We play defense first.
We survive.
And when the window opens again, we go in hard.

The rest of this breakdown, my exact re-entry levels and deployment plan, is only inside the group.

If you’re still sitting out, this is where you get left behind.
If you’re serious about turning this bull cycle into your exit plan, it’s time to stop trading blind.

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Survive. Execute. Collect.