Cryptic’s 3 Tips for Trading the Current Market Cryptic has a highly versatile trading style, but he’s best known for identifying asymmetric small cap opportunities before the wider market catches on, particularly innovative projects experimenting with new ideas. Some of his most notable early calls include: Pandora: $1M → $300M Act: $1M → $400M Arc: $15M → $600M Hoodrat: 200k > 20mil Net: $1M → $70M Stonk: $1M → $300M Most recently, he's grown his $10K Pump challenge wallet to $200K in just one month, all public. Here are his three tips for navigating the current market: 1. Don’t be afraid to go against the crowd By the time a trade becomes consensus, most of the people likely to buy are already aware of it and already positioned. Some of the biggest market inefficiencies can be found by looking where the crowd isn’t. That doesn’t mean being contrarian for the sake of it, but don’t be afraid to trust your own instincts and thesis, even if the crowd disagrees. 2. Execute well and size appropriately Plenty of people can identify a trade that eventually goes up. Far fewer can actually see it through. Your entry, ability to ride volatility and eventual exit are all part of the trade. Some of the best researchers I know aren’t necessarily the best traders, and execution is often the reason why. Position sizing is arguably the biggest factor. Oversize and you’re more likely to get shaken out by volatility. Undersize and you may not care enough about the position to give it your full attention. Get your sizing right and good execution becomes considerably easier. 3. Focus on yourself The rise of social trading has made this harder than ever. We’re constantly exposed to huge P&L screenshots, making it easy to feel as though we’re underperforming. That feeling can push you into forced trades, excessive risk and poor execution, all of which will ultimately lower your returns. Drown out the noise and focus on your own journey. You’re trading for your goals, on your timeline. Don’t let someone else’s results pull you away from your process.

Why $Stonk might just be the most asymmetric launchpad on Solana since Pump. Coin Pairings. So simple, yet so genius. A feature that truly unlocks endless possibilities in crypto and opens up entirely different investor circles to onchain markets. Right now, you can pair any meme with any stock, including pre-IPO stocks, or even with another meme. Onchain traders have felt exhausted and bored for a very long time, but through the Robinhood chain launch and now @LaunchOnSF , we finally have reason for renewed optimism. The pairing feature allows for endless permutations, and the door has been unlocked to a world of new possibilities. Increase Your Odds of Winning Consider every trade we make as a roll of the dice. The higher the number you roll, the greater your potential profit. Catalysts and events are factors that can influence the number you roll. With single-pairing plays, you have a set number of catalysts that can increase your odds of rolling a higher number. With a double pairing, however, that number of catalysts increases. You now have two different assets, each with their own catalysts, meaning you potentially have better odds of rolling a higher number and exiting the trade with greater profits. This is also where rewards are a much better concept, in my view, than simply having a pairing, btw. The reward aspect gives you skin in the game versus just driving volume through a stock pairing, that you don't actually see benefit from. Inviting External Liquidity and Narratives Onchain Pairing crypto with stocks is the perfect way to bring crypto and equity traders together. It allows for the spillover of external narratives into crypto. Hyped robotics IPO in equity markets? Play a robotics meme with a robotics stock pair. Uranium exploding in the commodities market? Pair a uranium meme with a uranium ETF. Additionally, it allows traders to invest on both sides of the risk curve. Pairing a degen meme with an equity or larger-cap crypto token allows you to hit a left-curve and right-curve play in one. The meme pairing can give you more reflexive returns, while the equity/larger-cap pairing brings potentially more stable gains. Opportunities for Innovation Right now, we’ve seen meme pairings, but I’m sure it won’t be long until we see utility plays paired too. What if commodities are introduced next? Or currencies? How about when the market turns and we get big meme runners again? All the beta plays can be paired with the big runner. There are just so many possibilities here, and they’re going to spark so many new ideas. Concluding Thoughts After just one week, $Stonk has generated $300k in revenue while burning almost 5–7% of its supply. That puts them on track for annualised revenue of around $15.6m. Of course, we only have one week of data, so extrapolating that far forward needs to be taken with a huge grain of salt. However, it’s worth considering that they’ve only released 20 stock pairings so far and have also held back some of the better teams from launching until they roll out updates around LPs and reward allocations. There are no guarantees in crypto, but considering the above and how well the team has taken on feedback and executed so far it’s not unreasonable to think these revenue numbers could be sustainable and potentially grow from here. To finish, I’d be very surprised if Solana doesn’t end up backing $Stonk in some capacity. We’ve already seen Raydium show its support, and I expect Solana to follow. They’ve been vocal about wanting Solana to become the home of RWAs onchain, and Stonk is well positioned to become the RWA hub of the ecosystem. Solana already has multiple RWA protocols, but Stonk's pairing feature creates a way for them to come together within one ecosystem potentially creating a powerful network effect where the growth of one protocol drives volume and attention to the others. We’re already starting to see this play out, with $Stonk driving activity across @Raydium , @Backpack and @PreStocks. As more assets and protocols are integrated, that network effect only becomes stronger. At a sub-$10m market cap, $Stonk really is one of the most asymmetric opportunities Solana has had in a very long time. If I lose here, I’d still take the bet every time knowing what I know above. And if I’m in crypto and not willing to play opportunities like this, then I’d be questioning why I’m here at all.

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was down mid 5 figs last month to up 6 figs this month. think fomo wallet was all time down like -$60k to +$15k keep clicking.