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JUST IN: Codex hits 25M active users, 10 days after 20M milestone. OpenAI also reset paid quotas for Codex and ChatGPT Work users for the second straight day, citing abnormal quota activity. $OPENAI

$CRCA /USDT – "Breakdown Below Averages – Short"**
**Trading Plan Short $CRCA
Entry: 22.00 – 22.20
SL: 22.80
TP1: 21.50
TP2: 21.20
CRCA is down -15.76% at 21.70, trading below the MA30 (23.04) after peaking at 25.27. MACD is bearish. The 23.04 MA confirms resistance. A break below the 21.60 low targets 21.20. SL above 22.80.

#USVenezuelaOilDeal
US-Venezuela $100B Deal: Why Infrastructure Deficit Matters More Than Reserve Headlines for Energy Markets
The U.S.-Venezuela $100B+ oil deal promises access to 65B barrels and "majority control." But reserves in the ground ≠ barrels at market. The real edge lies in validating whether Venezuela’s degraded infrastructure can physically deliver on political promises. Here’s my validation framework. 👇
🔍 Why Physical Topology Determines Real Supply
• Infrastructure Decay Caps Near-Term Output: Venezuela’s oil infrastructure has suffered decades of underinvestment. Refineries

$BTC ‌
#U.S.StrikesIranBTCDips
BTC at $77,700: Geopolitical Shock or Just a Pullback Before the Next Move?
Bitcoin is trading around $77,700, putting the market at a critical point after the latest U.S.–Iran escalation triggered another risk-off reaction across global markets.
BTC had recently climbed to approximately $81,455 on August 28, but the latest geopolitical shock pushed Bitcoin back toward the $77K area. The move means BTC has now retraced roughly 4.6% from that recent high, turning the $77K–$78K region into an important short-term battleground.
The catalyst is not coming from Bitco

I didn’t do anything—just went to the restroom, and when I came back, the candlesticks had already done the work for me. I was watching when the market was dumped during the morning session; the rebound was weak, and the resistance above was obvious. Every push upward looked like doing push-ups—clearly lacking sincerity. When the screen was filled with green and people were panicking and cutting their losses, I thought it was a good time to open short positions. And what happened? It went straight from 0.18850 to 0.17189, +173.5% in the bag. This move was purely the market being in a good mood

AI computing power is in a fierce arms race—can memory chips really keep skyrocketing?
Many people saw SanDisk and Kioxia plan to jointly invest over $31 billion to expand capacity before 2032, and their first reaction was that the cycle was about to collapse $SNDK
But after carefully breaking down the logic, the driving force this time is completely different
1.、The market can continue, but the logic has changed
In the past, NAND relied on phones and computers, and excess capacity immediately triggered price wars. But now, AI data centers’ demand for enterprise SSDs is structural
Spread ove

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I did absolutely nothing—just went to the bathroom, and when I came back, the candlestick chart had already done the work for me 😏.

During the repeated intraday swings, $DASH was still hovering at high levels. The push upward was weak, while the selling pressure grew more aggressive with each wave. Seeing how weak the support was, I immediately opened a short position at 43.24. I wasn't expecting much, but when I came back to check the chart just now, the price had dropped straight to 40.84, +267.29%? This was a seriously juicy profit 🍗.

The market is waited out, and profits are held ont

I still can’t play prediction markets; from now on, I’ll focus on trading and try to turn $300 into $10,000.

GM CT!
Let's touch some grass today

Day 10, it recovered my losses again this morning.
Currently at 100U; on Day 9, 3500U had a maximum drawdown to 1200U, and this morning it recovered to 4500U again—45x achieved.
Today’s recommendation: with the direction unclear, don’t trade, or trade with a light position.
Trading is a form of self-cultivation. You cannot lack confidence in trading, nor can you be blindly confident; stick to your initial judgment, and when your judgment deviates, reassess whether there is a problem with the direction and correct it in time.
When the market direction is unclear, never take a heavy position. It

What rebound? This is CPR for my empty account, isn’t it? A few nights ago, I deliberately glanced at the chart before going to bed. $EIGEN Every upward push was always just short of breaking through, while selling pressure kept getting heavier—a typical volume-price divergence. I already had a hunch then: don’t rush to catch it, wait a little longer.
When I opened my eyes this morning, I got the answer. The short position opened at 0.2195 is now touching 0.188, with a floating profit of +691.1% on paper. This profit feels great. 🔥
I closed 80% first to lock in the gains, and moved the stop

S&P 500 posted +14.76% inflation-adjusted return in 2025, beating inflation in 16 of last 20 years.

Waller has “downgraded” the nonfarm payrolls data: Even weaker employment could still mean a rate hike in September
In the past, you only needed to remember one sentence: “Weak employment → lower rate-hike expectations.”
Waller tore that sentence apart in Jackson Hole last week.
The Fed’s reaction function has been completely rewritten.
The old script was simple:
July nonfarm payrolls came in shockingly weak—employment fell by 23k, versus expectations for an increase of 80k, while the previous two months were revised down by a combined 103k. The unemployment rate fell from 4.2% to 4.1%.
In the

This trend is so obvious I don't even need to think—the account is dancing on its own. 💃 While everyone else was running, I kept my eyes on $ZBT . Every push upward fell just short, and the volume failed to follow. No one was there to catch it on the way up—a textbook low-volume pump. Not shorting it at that point would have been doing the chart a disservice. So I placed a short order at 0.12722 and held it steadily.

Now look at it: the current price is 0.08009, +1784.06%, and the account is celebrating on its own. It feels really good. 📉

Position management: Take profit on 80% first, and

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No trades, no analysis—just relying on sheer luck. This track record is embarrassing even to talk about.
When the early-session dump first began, $INJ lacked sufficient buying support, and the rebound after the sell-off was very weak. I took a quick look and casually placed a short order at 5.800, waiting for it to continue falling.
Now 4.968 has validated my call, and the +692.47% return is secured. This huge profit feels great—those on board should be waking up laughing.
I’ll close 70% first and move the stop-loss on the remaining 30% to the entry price. If it continues plunging, let the pro