Speed of the Turn

There is always a green side!

Well, at least on this Rubik's cube knockoff I bought from Amazon for ~~Smallsteps~ me to try and learn how to do this at least once in my lifetime. well, it isn't actually a knockoff, it is a speedcube made for faster and cleaner changes - not top of the line, but surprisingly not that cheap for a collection of colored pieces of plastic either. It also has a few magnets in the corners that help it snap into place more easily.

It becomes nerd certified once magnets are used.

I haven't messed it up yet...

I am too scared that I will never see it like this again!

But, there are 12 million tutorials online for them, so even if I can't solve it myself, I should be able to monkey solve it following step by step instructions. Afterall, I have washed 10 year old kids solve them in less than 5 seconds in competitions.

How hard can it be?

But, as said - there is always a green side and that is what is happening in the markets today, which makes it interesting. No, I don't think we are "out of the swamps" yet, but it is nice to see that we are still sitting 40% up from the 2022 low on HIVE, and 300% up on the 2021 low. Yeah... 300% up

These pumps, drop-backs and sideways actions that slowly increase enthuse me a bit, that come the end of the year, we might very well be back in full-swing again, looking toward the next bull run. Sure, the potential for recession could kill this in its tracks, but the uncertainty of "will they or won't they" gives a lot of potential for those willing to take a swing into the risk to make some gains.

All in?

Don't fall for that trap... never go all in on anything. Well, perhaps not anything, anything - but when it comes to investing, sometimes it is good to bide time a little, even if it is to train the "anti-FOMO" muscles.

I will practice this one day.

The end of the year is going to have the US elections also, and in general, it is going to be hard to gain votes if the economy is in a terrible position - which it is and will be for years to come - but hey,

Fake it til you break it!!

We have already seen the stock markets take a hammering for seven months straight with very little respite, and all of this started before the war between Russia and Ukraine. So don't believe that lame excuse. It is a reaction to a decade of up and then two years of printing money like it is going out of fashion -

Because it is.

We know it. They know it.

The economy as we all know it is destined to collapse, because it is close to running its course before "the great reset" explodes it all and starts it again. The balancing act of course is, how to destroy it, rebuild it and still maintain the power in the same hands as now? It is a tricky little game, but really, it is pretty obvious. Hand out money and then encourage people to spend that money on stuff that is largely valueless, putting it in the pockets of business investors who will spend it again on stuff that does have value, even if the economy collapses. When all of this money does in fact collapse the economy, all is well!

For those who have stuff that is valuable.

It is a pretty good scam really, because it gives people the impression that they got something out of it, even though they have nothing to show for it.

But, regardless of whether the recovery begins at the end of the year for the markets, it probably going to be the recovery that everyone wants - where there is massive candles and insanity, however, it could very well see some decent action and even push toward all time highs, before consolidating back about half way again, for 6-9 months before looking to run up the real ATHs. You know, the +100K on Bitcoin kinds of things, that will see many people cleared out before it pushes to 150K.

That puts it toward the end of 2023 to the start of 2024, which seems like a very long way away, but really from here, it is only another 18-20 months - that is nothing.

But of course - I know so little about market cycles that this is all speculation based on my own hopes and dreams that one day, all of this crypto nonsense will come good and provide positive life-changing returns. And, I am guessing that I am not the only one living on hope in this.

The complexity of all of this is very high - but I still can't solve a bloody Rubik's Cube.

What hope do I have?

Taraz [ Gen1: Hive ]