The penultimate update before year-end. Oooooh, exciting!
The big news this week is that I'm absolutely sick of Copy Trading. Seriously, the markets right now are SO easy that even I'm making money off trading, but these lead traders - supposed professionals - are piling up losses against each occasional win.
I know it worked really well a while back, but FFS, I've had enough. Every big loss I've suffered is from Copy Trading. Every one.
Thankfully, I'd had enough the day before they all went long on a short (again) and pulled all but $1,000 out (in USDT) and split it between Banking and Trading. I've left that nominal amount in so the pros can turn it into giant piles of cash with their Aw3s0mE sK1lLz™ without the possibility of losing an absolute feckin' fortune (again).
Bring it, asshats. Prove me wrong.
I also discovered - by accident - that MEXC's auto-earn includes DOGE, SUI and SHIB, so I've taken those off the market for the moment. Might as well earn an extra little bit on each while everything's stagnating, then pop them back up at the same sell prices when things start moving! (Auto-earn requires basic KYC, unfortunately.)
Other than that, it's been a pretty slow week, with the markets wiggling around but not going anywhere. Plus the usual Sunday dip!
Here are this week's numbers:
Back down overall today, thanks to a 5% drop overnight and a crappy week. I am, however, more hopeful now that I've pulled funds out of other people's incompetent hands and put it into sensible places. Hard lesson re-learned, for good this time.
In detail:
- Trading down 9.14%
- Copy Trading down 44.40% (moving funds, obvs!)
- Banking up 11.64%
- Overall down 3.00%
Not too bad. Moving funds to Banking slowed the drop significantly, especially as I moved some banked BTC into SOL to get better interest rates - SOL is far less volatile at this time and held my totals up nicely. Trading's down because of the market drop, as always.
Today is also the end of a month on my demented timelines, though next week is the EOYear.
I hesitate to post these numbers because I've moved funds for the last few weeks and they make very little sense.
Whatever:
- Trading up 36.74%
- Copy Trading down 75.88%
- Banking up 62.01%
- Overall up 4.68%
That last number is all that really matters this month - and it's a wee tiny bit lower than the ~5% monthly that would double funds in a year.
I'm still happy, though. It's a positive number.
'26 Picks
No real surprises here, though it's depressing to see PUMP almost going negative.
That little voice in my head is screaming at me for not selling when some of those were up 25% (or 60% for PUMP), but I'm sticking to the plan. Hold until this nonsense passes and prices rise.
I also (again accidentally) discovered that MEXC does this thing about sentiment when you click a coin in your Overview, and a surprising number of those are 70%+ bullish (whatever that means). ALGO isn't, of course, but neither are DOGE and SUI. Sentiment means little to me, since I have no idea how they're measuring it, but it's an interesting BS metric! 🤓
One more week to year-end of my earning attempts (not the p0x version) and I'm feeling positive despite the losses. I've finally cut away that dead meat in Copy Trading and left it to rot by the wayside as I continue... onwards and upwards!
How was your week? Are you trading while BTC and ETH move sideways in a nice, clearly defined zone?
