The Frenzy and Rationality of a Bull Market: Amid Market Prosperity, Don't Forget Risk Management and Setting Longer-Term Goals
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The Frenzy and Rationality of a Bull Market: Amid Market Prosperity, Don't Forget Risk Management and Setting Longer-Term Goals
If you made money in 2025, where would you spend it?
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthor: Route 2 FI
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Today, let's talk about the upcoming bull market and the scenarios in which you might succeed.
Money can't solve all your problems, but it does solve your financial ones. You gain more choices.
If you chased money, got it now, yet feel empty inside, perhaps that wasn’t your ultimate goal. You may desire more meaning and impact in life. Use your wealth to elevate yourself. Set new goals—goals beyond money.
Focus on health, fitness, hobbies, family, and friends. You didn’t earn a lot of money just to stay in the same place. Improve your quality of life, broaden your horizons, and explore the world.
No matter how wealthy you are, death is inevitable. Therefore, the only finite resource is time. Invest money to buy back time, use money to explore possibilities, and spend money to enhance your quality of life.
It’s hard to imagine how wild a crypto bull run can be.
Recently, I’ve been reflecting on my own goals—why I spend so much time doing what I do, and where I want to head next.
I think it’s normal to occasionally ponder these things, especially during volatile market periods. I still dream of experiencing another imminent bull market. That feeling of buying an asset at a high price and waking up the next day to see it even higher is simply incredible. Imagine this happening for months on end, with prices rising every single day. 2021 was insane—I remember everything else around me became meaningless. You had no time for anything else. People outside crypto couldn’t understand this. They knew Bitcoin had surged by hundreds of percent, but had no clue that altcoins were up thousands—and every day brought new opportunities.
Those days seem gone now—will they return? Will we experience this again? There’s debate today about altcoin fragmentation, because the difference between 2021 and 2024 is that back then there were only a few solid altcoins, while in 2024 we have hundreds of high-quality projects. But liquidity isn’t sufficient to push them into an altseason. This time, retail investors are smarter—not just retail. Traders are smarter, investors are smarter, VCs, KOLs—they all have more experience, knowledge, resources, and connections than you do. This leads me to believe that succeeding in this bull market will be harder. People know about the “four-year cycle,” are more cautious, and ready to dump your assets at any moment. You must be more vigilant than in previous cycles.
But hope remains. Because in a booming bull market, all these “rules” get ignored. People forget risk management and make wildly irrational decisions, hoping to make massive gains quickly. And that’s exactly where you need to be smart. When the next project promising 90,000% annual returns appears, stay calm and don’t lose your mind.
If you’re new, do you even understand what 94,000% annual yield means?
Let me tell you.
If you start with $100, after 365 days, you’ll have $94,000.
That’s a daily return of 1.9%. Yes, every single day.
Well, people didn’t invest $100—they invested $100,000.
A 1.9% daily return over 30 days means earning $75,000 profit on $100,000.
And the price of that Ponzi asset TIME rose so fast that people turned $1,000 into millionaires in less than a month.
A crypto friend of mine earned $30,000 per day from this project and actually sold near the peak, using the profits to buy a new house. It’s an inspiring story. But as we know, such gains don’t last forever—Ponzi schemes eventually collapse.
Alright, enough about that. Let’s move on.
What are your goals, friend?
Without bigger aspirations, it’s easy to drift aimlessly.
If you wake up each day with no plan, just scrolling your phone or computer screen, you’ve already lost.
I believe in the pyramid structure of goal setting.
Start with a mission lasting over 20 years, then break it down into a 3- to 10-year vision. To achieve that 3-year goal, further break it into annual, quarterly, and so on.
What you do daily and weekly determines where you’ll be years from now. Of course, we all have bad days. But instead of procrastinating further, try to get back on track.
If your goals don’t inspire you, they may not be the right goals.
Do I have goals? Yes. And if we tie this to crypto, my goal is to become one of the best writers in the space and a knowledgeable figure in this field. In the last market cycle, money was a bigger motivator for me. This cycle, I feel lighter—I don’t need to earn money the same way. Don’t get me wrong, I believe everyone here wants to make more money. But I’m not desperate, nor will I sacrifice my health for profits (as I did in the last cycle).
Check out my thread below to see what reflections I’ve made.
It got so bad that I actually lost interest in everything I once cared about—books, writing (except crypto-related), fitness, running, seeing friends, my girlfriend, and family—all became dull. I was addicted to my phone and computer, avoiding any situation where I couldn’t check my DeFi positions, Twitter, Discord, TG, etc. My girlfriend (at the time) tried to tell me how addicted I was, but I wouldn’t listen.
This makes me wonder—if you’re not using money to improve your life, what’s the point of having it?
I wrote more about this in this tweet thread below.
The thing is, now that the bull market is accelerating again, I’m starting to feel it once more. Crypto feels so important, and everything else gets temporarily set aside. I keep postponing things to make more money—more than I already have.
It feels natural to hear others on Crypto Twitter (CT) talking about what they plan to spend their money on—see this tweet.
I think you have enough material to reflect on now, friend.
That’s it for today.
But let me leave you with one final question to ponder before our next chat.
If you make money in 2025, what will you spend it on?
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