/1 on the advantages of replacing high leverage margin swap/futures positions with options
1) poor traders tend to chase, margin longing after significant price moves up have already happened. combined with high leverage, this means they manage to lose money by being liquidated (force sold) on pullbacks.
2) Derivatives exchanges charge a maintenance margin when you are liquidated to give them a buffer to close losing positions prior to the bankruptcy price.
One, don't be a fucking degenerate. The vast majority of people trading on leverage lose money, and this in a 10 year secular bull market that has minted everyone who has survived.
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Tether Price Manipulation Thread:
Tether has been manipulating #Bitcoin's price upwards for years now by printing unlimited, and unbacked $USDT.
This thread will cover the controversial aspects surrounding Tether, and how it will eventually meet its demise.
1) Tether is a stable coin that was first launched in 2012.
According to the company, Tether is backed 1:1 with the U.S dollar, although this isn't actually the case.
Bitfinex, and Tether have refused to show audits of their reserves, which is held in offshore bank accounts.
2) In 2019, The United States District Court sued Bitfinex, Tether, and Poloniex for being involved in a massive price manipulation, and fraud scheme in the crypto markets.
In a court hearing, Tether's lawyer admitted the stable coin was only backed by 74% cash, and securities.
3) On Jan 15th 2021, iFinex is supposed to submit documents requested by NYAG's investigation.
These documents will be consequential to the case.
https://t.co/82UuLLLXWK
4) How the scam works:
Tether can print infinite amounts of (worthless) $USDT.
They then inject this into BTC, ETH, LTC, (and others) to cause prices to pump.
Notice how during the months they stopped printing Tether, the market moves sideways or drops significantly.
Tether has been manipulating #Bitcoin's price upwards for years now by printing unlimited, and unbacked $USDT.
This thread will cover the controversial aspects surrounding Tether, and how it will eventually meet its demise.
1) Tether is a stable coin that was first launched in 2012.
According to the company, Tether is backed 1:1 with the U.S dollar, although this isn't actually the case.
Bitfinex, and Tether have refused to show audits of their reserves, which is held in offshore bank accounts.
2) In 2019, The United States District Court sued Bitfinex, Tether, and Poloniex for being involved in a massive price manipulation, and fraud scheme in the crypto markets.
In a court hearing, Tether's lawyer admitted the stable coin was only backed by 74% cash, and securities.
3) On Jan 15th 2021, iFinex is supposed to submit documents requested by NYAG's investigation.
These documents will be consequential to the case.
https://t.co/82UuLLLXWK
4) How the scam works:
Tether can print infinite amounts of (worthless) $USDT.
They then inject this into BTC, ETH, LTC, (and others) to cause prices to pump.
Notice how during the months they stopped printing Tether, the market moves sideways or drops significantly.
1/ Feels like a good time to tell the story of how I went from broke to a millionaire to broke again in 2017/18 again...
Yesterday was brutal for some people...
Losing life-changing money sucks, losing any money sucks...you can chase the market or you can change your strategy.
2/ The original thread is gone but you can read it here.
https://t.co/cLLNs75rB0
tl;dr
- Traded $32k to $1.2m
- Thought I was a genius
- Made poor investments
- Didn't conserve capital
- Peaked at 150 BTC
- Lost nearly all of it
2 weeks from losing my house + no income. Oops.
3/ I am going to assume you are in it for the money rather than the tech. Yeah, you might Tweet about the amazing blockchaining of cross-border payments and oracles yadda yadda...really, you are in it to make money.
If you are really in it for the tech, go and build something.
4/ Okay, so if you want to make money, trading is super hard, you are trading against:
- Better traders than you
- People who can move markets
- Unknown information
And if you are trading with leverage you might blow up your account with the volatility.
5/ If you are not trading, you are investing. Okay, so what are you investing in?
I made the decision that the crypto with the best opportunity of existing in 10 years is #Bitcoin:
- Solves a genuine problem
- The right tech
- A proven track record
Yesterday was brutal for some people...
Losing life-changing money sucks, losing any money sucks...you can chase the market or you can change your strategy.
2/ The original thread is gone but you can read it here.
https://t.co/cLLNs75rB0
tl;dr
- Traded $32k to $1.2m
- Thought I was a genius
- Made poor investments
- Didn't conserve capital
- Peaked at 150 BTC
- Lost nearly all of it
2 weeks from losing my house + no income. Oops.
3/ I am going to assume you are in it for the money rather than the tech. Yeah, you might Tweet about the amazing blockchaining of cross-border payments and oracles yadda yadda...really, you are in it to make money.
If you are really in it for the tech, go and build something.
4/ Okay, so if you want to make money, trading is super hard, you are trading against:
- Better traders than you
- People who can move markets
- Unknown information
And if you are trading with leverage you might blow up your account with the volatility.
5/ If you are not trading, you are investing. Okay, so what are you investing in?
I made the decision that the crypto with the best opportunity of existing in 10 years is #Bitcoin:
- Solves a genuine problem
- The right tech
- A proven track record
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