Just looking at any chart, whether gold, Bitcoin, palladium, stocks or any crypto, you'll understand how important timing is. But the reality is all those charts are hindsight, you see the peaks and think "should have sold there", see the bottoms and think "should've bought there". What good does that do? Well a little I guess, for some charts the patterns are clearly there, even for Bitcoin but it's anything but an exact science. Technical analysis can be useful but it can't predict sudden incoming mass volume or exiting whales/banks/nations.

Timing sometimes really is everything. Remember when Billy Hayes was caught in Turkey for smuggling drugs? We will never know for sure, but he was most likely caught due to the increased security checks in response to the instability and unrest in the country which led to several bombings and numerous deaths and had just expanded to targeting civilian airlines just days prior to his amazing timing of attempting to smuggle drugs at the airport. When I was in high school our economy teacher told us about when the home VHS players were about to be introduced and how Philips was working on this technological masterpiece that would make watching movies at home on their VHS player a revolutionary experience, but they kept delaying the final product introduction to the market because the numerous new features and the fact it was such a complicated product, made it need a lot of re-adjustments and retesting to make sure they'd eliminated all flaws and errors along with the finishing touches to maximize the picture and sound quality. As eager as people were for the Philips VHS player back then, another company smelled opportunity when Philips delayed the introduction more than once, so they quickly scraped something together for less than half the costs and introduced it on the market for about half the price and people opted to get the lesser, cheaper and most importantly earlier available version, while the Philips version was so durable that the teacher still had his which he got after Philips slashed the price since sales were a disaster as people already had a VHS player by the time Philips finally introduced theirs. Speaking of high school, it was here where I witnessed one of the craziest things ever, wait, I'm telling high school stories? Have I really become "that guy"?🤔 Anyways, There was this kid in our class who was obviously 'different', he didn't try to hide it and publicly stated to be gay. Being around 14 year old child minds at the time that's bound to draw responses. He was sometimes bullied by kids from other classes and looking back at it I feel bad for not standing up to them for what I should have perceived as 'one of my own'. My own classmate I mean, not the gay part. But in our own class he did somewhat feel at home even though there some of us also joked around with him, but nothing really cruel or intimidating. Just the same level of jokes and insults we made against one another based on our appearance, stupid things we said or just made up stuff to have a laugh except that with him we of course threw that gay element in there and he often had rather funny and clever replies. All was well, till one faithful day he was pushed around in the morning at the school entrance by some goons who I think kicked him and threw his bag in the trash or something, I don't really know what happened except that he was clearly shaken up in class. We all knew something went down and kept our cool, meaning we understood that regarding the gay jokes, it wasn't business as usual. Well, most of us understood that anyway. This one kid who usually never even made any gay jokes had some amazing timing and decided that day was the day he would expand his horizon and I will never forget how after he took a shot at the gay kid, I checked up on him to see how he would respond and he just sat there for seconds, till the few laughs faded away and then gave this chilling death glance to the kid who made the remark. "Whatever" I thought and no one really mentioned anything and we went to recess and later on our last classes of the day till we suddenly heard some weird cry/scream combo followed with a brawl. Turned out, the gay kid had after one of our classes managed to take the drinking bottle of the kid who made the untimely joke. It was one of those high energy, sweetness overload, urine yellow sports drinks where if you put actual urine in you would barely even notice due to both the color and insane amount of sugar and I guess you probably already know where this is going🤨

Turned out that between classes, the gay kid subtly took the bottle from him, peed in it and then quietly placed it back in his possession. At one of the final classes after he drank it, the gay kid then told what he did and that that's what he gets for bullying. Ohhhh the fight was on, for about 10 seconds as the teacher intervened. The following days there were angry parents, police inquiries and a meeting with our entire class and all our teachers along with the principle regarding what happened and why. We could all ask questions, share our thoughts and the conclusion was something like "bullying is wrong, but so is pissing in someone's drink". But "no" I thought, the conclusion is that timing is actually quite important. Yes timing, and the awareness about your timing. Not luck as to when you do something or better yet not do something, but trying to understand why it's vital to do so at that specific time.

The competitor of Philips timed it perfectly when they estimated they could put a finished working product on the market which was admittingly way less than the Philips version, but still beat them to the punch in both sales and timing regarding it's availability to the masses. Maybe smuggling contraband on your flight isn't something that should be a high priority in your life in a country on high alert due to airport bombings. As some may know regarding Bitcoin I was both lucky and somewhat brave enough to put those measly few Euros I had in it at the time when I first discovered it back in 2013. As for that poor pee kid, well, staying informed and knowing when not to act/speak would have probably saved him a lifelong trauma.