Pull Up A Chair… because I got some real talk about volatility. Volatility is the one constant this market never apologises for, and the last few weeks have been a masterclass in why it remains the real engine of profit — not direction, not vibes, not blind conviction. Just raw movement. Take Bitcoin since the flash crash on October 10. The thing has been trending down, yes, but that alone doesn’t tell you anything useful. What matters — the only thing that matters for someone actually trading size — is what happens inside that downtrend. Every impulsive leg lower has been followed by a retrace. Those retraces are where the money is made. They’re also what separate an ordinary angry Joe who thinks “the market is rigged” from the market maker who simply plays the rhythm the chart is giving. A retail trader sees “it’s going down, I’m doomed.” A market maker sees: “price moved too far too fast — liquidity imbalance — time to fade it.” Not because they know the future, but because the structure repeatedly gives you these back-and-forth ranges. That’s the real game. You’re not paid to predict; you’re paid to participate. And this is where the psychology gets spicy. If you truly believed the market could nuke all the way to zero without any form of relief, no rational actor would ever provide liquidity on the way down. Everyone would step aside, the book would dry up, and the market would die in silence. But the reason liquidity stays — even during these brutal legs — is because participants operate on a simple shared belief: volatility breaks, but it also breathes. It expands, then contracts. It sells off, then reverts. This belief keeps the machine alive. This is also why institutional backing makes it easier to hold on to that belief. It doesn’t make execution easier, but it makes the game we play a lot more confidence inspiring. The October 10 event made that painfully clear. When the first cascading wave hit, market makers did pull back. Depth thinned. The book got slippery. That’s not cowardice — that’s survival. You don’t want to be the hero catching knives at full speed. You want to wait for the moment when forced selling stops, spreads tighten, and you can get fills near what might be a local bottom. Then — and only then — you scale your size back in. Because if you blow half your inventory buying too early in a black-swan candle, you have no ammo left when the real opportunity appears. And if you buy too high during the rebound, you’re locking yourself out of the next impulse move entirely. Every market maker knows this feeling: you don’t fear losses as much as you fear having no dry powder when the bounce finally arrives. So the last few weeks weren’t just a price story. They were a behavioural story. A showcase of the constant dance between fear and function — and how the “always winning” market maker isn’t winning because they’re magic, but because they’re patient enough to buy when everyone else is paralysed and disciplined enough to sell when everyone suddenly pretends they always believed in the bounce. Volatility is the king. Direction is just the gossip surrounding it. If this market keeps giving us charts like the post-October structure, you’ll see the same dynamic play out again and again — and the ones who understand the rhythm will always be the ones collecting the spread while everyone else argues about where BTC “should” be going.

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