# Bear Market Strategy: Technicals Over Macro

**Podcast:** The Milk Road Show
**Published:** 2026-02-19

## Transcript

So I had a podcast before this where I interviewed 100 plus uh millionaireslash billionaire traders and investors.
Of those, not a single one of them had made their fortune predicting tops or catching bottoms.
What's up, everybody?
It's LG Du Set here, and welcome to the Milk Road Show, the daily crypto show where we ask whether you're actually investing or just panic trading with better vocabulary.
Today is February 19th, 2026.
Last cycle made everyone feel like a genius, and this cycle is exposing who actually has a process or I guess the end of the cycle.
Markets are volatile, narratives flip overnight, and suddenly everyone who called themselves a long-term investor is probably checking that five-minute chart at 2 a.m.
to make sure we haven't crushed even lower.
Today we're talking about the difference between investing and trading and why confusing the two might be the single biggest mistake retail makes.
Joining us is Karush, who's back on the show to break down how to survive this environment and what the charts are really saying right now.
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Karush, welcome back to the show, man.
It's good to have you.
Hey, LG, it's great to be back and uh got such a great reception from your audience last time that I'm hoping I can deliver similar value again this time.
We need some of that philosophical talk today, man.
That's what we, you know.
I think November, people were like, I don't want to hear about the spiritual stuff.
I just want that the price to bounce back.
But I think now in the depths of the bear market, uh, we need we definitely need a bit of guidance.
Uh, so I think today we're gonna go through, we're gonna look at Bitcoin.
I think you'll share a couple technicals with us.
Give us a bit of your your your take there and your approach, and then we'll talk about technicals versus macro, right?
Because uh clearly the macro people have been pretty wrong and the technical people were right.
Uh, and then we'll kind of talk a bit more strategy.
So let's get that chart up from you and take a look.
So, what's so Kareush, what's um what's our old friend Bitcoin doing right now?
So, Bitcoin's actually not changed too much since we spoke in November.
Uh, prices things have continued to look bleak, depending on whether you're a short-term trader investor or what your positioning is.
Uh, as you can see, it's a clear downtrend.
Uh, you don't need to be a technical analysis expert to determine that.
But uh what's interesting is this is my analysis from back at the start of the year, and very, very little has changed.
Uh, generally, this is my trader's perspective on what's going on in the markets.
Uh, I care less about the macro side of things and more about what the current market conditions slash regime is.
Here it's a downtrend.
Here we have sideways conditions, here we have more of a downtrend.
When the market's going down like this, I bet on continuation to the downside.
When the market's going sideways, and that's normally determined by three test points.
So one, two, three.
Then I'm like, okay, cool.
This is going sideways.
Continue to bet on sideways price action until you lose one of key structural levels, and then you bet on continuation to the other side.
Now, these are high-level trading principles, and I checked with you if I could throw in some annoying philosophy into my TA.
And what I want to add here is uh guys, I'm gonna try to be as technical and specific as I can, give you rules I use, but I don't want anyone watching this right now to think, okay, Carew Shwinks is gonna go lower, I should sell, or CruSpinx is gonna go higher, I should buy.
Uh, what you do depends on what your edge as a trader is and what your goals as an investor are, what your overall portfolio allocation is, etc.
We can get into that later if you want.
But yeah, so with that in mind, right now we are consolidating during a downtrend.
Remember, I said you need a test, a high created, a low created, and then it starts drifting into sideways conditions.
Right now, we had a low set here, price bounced back up, and now it hasn't really tested the extremities, it's floating sideways.
And in these conditions, it's quite similar to this and this.
So the closest bet or the safest bet until proven otherwise is continuation down.
This doesn't mean it's 100% going down by any means.
It just means gun to my head, I'm gonna bet the probability of it going down is going to be higher than it going uh up at this point.
And uh when I take trades, it will have that in mind.
I could still take longs, I could still take shorts, but if I take a long, it better be an amazing setup for longs.
But if I'm taking a short, it can be a mediocre setup, and I'll still take it.
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Yeah.
I just want to clarify for the people listening on audio, uh, the levels that he's pointing at were basically uh just the last thing he said that we're seeing similar levels right now in the last like two weeks or basically through all of February.
And this is the daily chart we're looking at.
He's pointing to those and saying that those are similar to the daily charts in like early to late November before we kind of cascaded down to the 80s.
Um and the the range he was originally describing was from December through to early February, where we kind of we kind of crept up and then we had that pop up to like 97 or 98 K before then breaking structure and going down to 60 just a few weeks ago.
And you're saying lower, Karush, you're saying lower from here.
Yes, I am saying lower from here is the highest probability if one was forced to make a prediction.
Okay, how low?
How low are we going?
Like what's what's if you had to call it or you or if you were if you if you had what indicator would tell you that we're definitely gonna go lower that would cause you to open a short, and when would you close that short?
Okay, that is about a close to a signal as we can get, but let's do it.
Um again, for anyone listening, I absolutely do not believe in signals, but so I'm going to weave education into this.
Uh so if I were to look for a short right now, my favorite level on Bitcoin is around 65.8 K.
The exact specific level doesn't matter, but this general area marks the most recent low we have here.
Uh and during these extreme down moves, uh, I like to bet on price goes down, then it bounces somewhere, hits a resistance, hits a support, and I'm trying to be as descriptive as I can for those on audio.
Then either that first support or first resistance is going to break.
Once that breaks, that results in momentum in either direction because a bunch of emotions kick into the market, a bunch of people get liquidated who are expecting it to bounce, etc., and price speeds up in that direction.
Given we are in trending market conditions, you do not want to bet on support bouncing and resistance uh rejecting.
You want to bet on supports breaking and price continuing downwards or resistance breaking and price continuing upwards.
You're looking for that sort of momentum.
So that's my 65.8k area.
Now to determine where the price could go next, you just look for the next support on the charts.
And interesting, interestingly, the support is really far away.
I've had to zoom out to the weekly to even get a clear picture on my chart.
The last support we had was back in August uh 2024.
Now, support is where we look at previous price data and we try to predict the current market's reaction based off of that.
The further back you go in time, the less likely that price is to be a representation of the current market's feelings, thoughts, et cetera.
So I don't love making predictions based on data that's only from 2024, but that's the best we have.
So price is looking like it's going to drop to about 55K if I were to make a prediction based on that data.
However, this 55K is not as likely to hold as say the resistance we have at 85K, where we have data from December 25 supporting because of that.
Got it.
And did you know, Karush, when we were um topping in early October, September, or even through the summer when we had really, you know, we were still we're still hitting the high 110s, 120s.
Were you aware that there we might be breaking structure to the downtrend?
Like had did these same, and these are these are relatively like these are pretty standard principles for looking at charts.
Were you able to spot that?
And when were you able to spot that?
If so.
Yeah, great, great question.
I've known and interviewed, so I had a podcast before this where I interviewed 100 plus uh millionaires slash billionaire traders in investors.
Of those, not a single one of them had made their fortune predicting tops or catching bottoms.
It's this retail myth where it's really important to catch the top of the market.
And that's actually perpetuated by uh media as well, because prominent figures like to constantly call the bear markets and the bull markets, because you can be wrong a hundred times.
If you're right just once, everyone fixates on that and then gives you a bunch of clout for it.
So my goal with trading is not to be right, but to make money.
Now, did I predict that the exact top would be where was it at 126k on um October?
Uh absolutely not.
I did not.
However, I did see some signs that pointed to uh weakness.
Now, the first one was Bitcoin used to back in the day, for those who have been around more than three years.
Every time we broke a high, like here when we broke 72K, here when we broke 108K, price used to absolutely rocket up and uh leave previous levels behind.
Like if you miss that all-time high entry, you would not get another opportunity to come back in.
This was progressively getting weaker and weaker.
People were caring less and less about new all-time highs, and also the entire market was heating up like crazy.
So the signs were there.
My caution levels were rising.
That doesn't mean I call this is going to be the exact top, but it does mean I start de-risking.
I start getting more careful.
Because remember, we just said here, this is a clean downtrend right now.
We haven't seen any signs of CHOP.
So I'm going to continue betting on continuation.
But here, this doesn't look like a clean uptrend.
For those of you listening, I'm pointing to the period between October 25 and November 24.
This is choppy.
This is really sideways price action.
Huge spikes get instantly retraced.
This is not the sort of price action where you aggressively go all in on the tops, like you used to be able to do with crypto, even then not all in, but you'd go for aggressive trades.
So I look at it like a sliding scale of bullishness and bearing bearishness.
And at that previous top, yeah, the scale did go more towards the bearish side.
What is your like so you you make a really good point about the top and and bottom and how it's definitely a very emotional thing to do, let's say.
And some of the most successful investors in history, and even the people used to interview, they don't they don't even care about that kind of stuff.
They're just they're just they're just making their trade.
I'll say most of them, not even some of them, but please continue.
Most, most of them.
So what is the what besides that, what other kind of mistakes do you think a lot of people are making, especially in a market like this?
Because this, you know, we say this often, right?
But the general consensus through the summer is like Q4 is going to be that blow off top, the one we've been waiting for, Bitcoin at 200k, a lot of a lot of hype for it.
Um, and since October, since 1010, it has been a really depressing market from a price action standpoint.
What kind of mistakes do people make in this?
Like what what how do people totally lose their shirt in this?
And how can people avoid that?
Amazing questions.
Okay, so the first one is they're praying, their entire strategy, a lot of people is just praying that the market returns to what it was.
And they're holding on to bags, hoping that price goes back up.
They're constantly consuming podcasts, being like, okay, this person said a million, this person said 500k.
There's hope.
I'm gonna get there.
And um, it doesn't serve them uh because you have no control over that.
If your entire strategy is just waiting for the markets to go back up, doesn't that doesn't work?
It's it's um guaranteeing yourself misery that you can't do anything about.
Instead, you should be focused on things you can control and ways you can absolutely crush it in this market.
And there's two ways you can do that.
You can do that as a trader, or you can do that as an investor.
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Most people, if they want to, can do it as a trader, but for most people, trading isn't like the right thing to be doing at all.
And the way people kill themselves is they call themselves investors, but they behave as traders.
So they're still buying and selling, they're still trying to execute edge onto the market, and that absolutely destroys people.
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Well, I think a lot of people can definitely see themselves a little bit in what you're saying right now.
How are you playing this right now, Carus?
Then how are how so what are you doing specifically in this crypto market?
Because clearly it's something you're still paying attention to.
You're looking, I mean, you're you're we're you're not looking for that bottom, but we are talking.
I did ask you about bottoms as well.
How are you currently kind of playing this?
And what's your what's your timeline on that?
I absolutely love these conditions.
And uh lot of people uh get a little annoyed when I say that because I know it's hard for a lot of people, but um that hardness I've learned to love because when the market is easy, it's easy for everyone.
That means whatever you're doing to make money, all someone else has to do is just step into the market and they'll be exposed to the same upside and same opportunities.
There's no moats, there's no defensibility, it's uh fleeting.
I like to build long-term fill things.
And if you're able to make money in these market conditions right now, you'll be able to make money in any crypto market conditions.
Uh the money's made in the bear markets, and there's two things I'm doing in particular to absolutely crush it in these market conditions.
One is as an investor, and two is as a trader.
As an investor, I know a lot of guests I'm sure have said this.
Uh, the lower price goes, the better.
Because we at this point, if we're still in crypto right now in these market conditions, we believe in it.
We know this isn't going anywhere.
And if we're going to bet on it for 10 years, do we want to buy Bitcoin at 200K or do we want to buy Bitcoin at 60K or 30K or 20K, even if it goes that low?
Uh so accumulating Bitcoin as an investor, this is a fantastic time to do that.
But have a clear strategy for your time frames and have some realistic expectations.
Now, this is where it's a little con this will be quite controversial.
I don't think anyone else would have said this.
But so stock market average returns are like 8% a year, right?
And in my portfolio, I just want Bitcoin to outperform that by some meaningful amount.
And meaningful amount for me is like two to four percent.
If Bitcoin does 10 to 12% average over the next 10 years, that's a giga win for me as an investor.
Because uh by the way, to put that into context, that's 70K going to like 200K.
I don't need the one millions, I don't need the 10 million dollar Bitcoin.
As long as Bitcoin hits 200K over the next 10 years, the better making plays out.
So I have absolute confidence that Bitcoin's going to get there.
It's proven itself enough.
And therefore, I'm placed that bet.
So I the expectations, the need for Bitcoin to do loads is so low that uh I'll just keep accumulating.
That's my strategy, and I'll make money as an investor.
Then as a trader, very different.
This is where I'm active.
I'm not passive.
I'm not going for small returns and just comparing it to the path like index stock markets here.
I'm working every single day to develop edge and have some sort of advantage over other traders.
Now you can do this via what a lot of your other guests do, which is macro.
If you've got good macro understanding, you've got information sources other people don't have, and you're able to place strategic bets on that, fantastic, go ahead.
But if you're listening to podcasts and then try to make strategic best just on that information, you're likely going to get crushed.
Podcasts can be super helpful because they help set get a feel for general sentiment of the market, get feeling for key events that are coming up, but that's an accessory, not a core strategy.
One of the easiest core strategies for traders to develop is just keeping a journal, having a basic momentum or mean reversion strategy, and then iterating that and then outperforming most traders who don't journal, uh, don't have any strict strategy, any risk management, and crush them that way.
So if you have time, two hours a day, journal your trades, build a strategy, some of the concepts I was talking about later, or just crush it as an investor really passively.
Those would be the two approaches to take.
And what I'm doing is both of those.
So I trade and then I accumulate as an investor.
Bitcoin, BMB, Solana, and Ethereum, mostly is uh Bitcoin, like majoritarily.
Right.
So I do want to jump into the the crypto versus technicals in a minute, but uh one last um question for you on the uh philosophical strategic side, let's say.
I think that one thing that happens, and this this I guess was my second cycle, and my first cycle was mainly brought in through very risk assets like NFTs and stuff.
And this time I stuck around for all the other stuff that came, both meme coins and all the other shit.
Um, but um I think one thing that that's clear to me that that happens on these massive drawdowns is that a lot of us carry grief of not selling, right?
And you you get stuck in the past where you know, you made that a lot of people made that decision in August, September, early October, even mid October after 1010, of thinking like convincing themselves it's gonna go higher.
I should I maybe I'll maybe I'll trim a bit, maybe I won't trim at all.
And they'll see posts on the timeline of people being like, I sold 75% of my bag, I don't like these conditions, and they'll purposely choose to not believe it and they'll stuck stick to their guns.
And now you look back in this kind of like terrible nostalgic way of like, God, what was I thinking?
Why didn't I sell?
And I think that that's something that people really carry with them.
I call it grief because it almost feels that way of just like this grief of like I held this for years and it went up and I didn't sell and I'm a fool.
How do you deal with that?
How do you deal with that?
Because you you're you're you're very wise now, but I feel like there's a time where you must have gone through those types of motions.
Oh, I've had my losses, but before I answer, I how did you deal with it with your NFTs that you ended up losing?
Yeah, I actually um I was I I was I was lucky enough to have a good support group and my wife, my wife and and even my parents at one point were like, listen, you have an ape and you don't you have you have an ape but you don't own a house.
Why don't you just make why don't you just make that trade to start and then you can play with the rest?
And I was like, that's smart, and I did.
Uh I didn't sell the top on apes, which which became absolutely insane when it when it came, but I still made out with a good amount.
That was a good purchase on my end.
I was early to NFTs.
Um, so I I I I still sure I never really look back at the number of like my all-time high portfolio of NFTs.
Um, I take it as a lesson, but I still came out being early, I still came out pretty good.
Um, and and yeah, but in this most recent cycle is a little bit different, man.
There wasn't anything that easy.
Meme coins are very vicious, and and now I'm very happy, milk road wise, to have moved on or moved over to talking about these kind of themes with people and really looking from a uh from a broader perspective.
And we're covering crypto macro and AI now at Milk Road.
So so I'm definitely like learning a lot from the people I I interview, and honestly, just kind of I'm looking at my chops at at another run at all this stuff because I feel like I'm gonna go into it with a lot of a lot of knowledge and a much bigger network.
So that's my approach right now.
Um, and I personally I find that those things fade, they do fade over time.
But I think that this one even since like a September, October, there's still like a lot of I it's still lingering for me a little bit of LG, whatever.
You're you're crushing it.
You're doing a form of investment in crypto right now.
You're investing your career in crypto, you're building your skill set via this podcast.
And so you're actually you are making yourself more attached to the crypto market in a bear market.
You are building in the bear market right now.
It doesn't just have to be trading or investing.
This is a form of crypto investment.
Uh, but to answer your question with losses, how to deal with them.
Uh, I have one heuristic because I think you you shared a lot of valuable stuff there.
Um, particularly to have good support groups around you, uh, grounding yourself in reality, making sure like if you don't have a roof over your head, maybe you don't need the 500k NFT.
Uh but the the heuristic is this, which makes it really easy to make the decision of should I be holding on to this?
Is it gonna go back up?
The market does not care what price you bought at.
Ask yourself one question.
Say you hold 500k of a board ape right now.
Or wait, they don't cost that much, do they?
Say you'll hold 50k of a board ape and you bought it at 600k.
The only question you ask yourself is would I buy this ape for 50k right now?
If the answer is no, you should not own that ape because the the market doesn't care what price you put bought at, unless you've got tax events that trigger, like that's a separate conversation.
Make sure that you take care of that.
But in terms of like asset allocation, no.
You only ask yourself, would I buy it today at the price it's worth?
And if no, you shouldn't be owning it.
That's good advice.
And thank you.
Thank you for telling me that I'm on the right path.
Uh I feel good, and I feel like I feel like we're taking the whole audience uh along for this journey.
They're here that I took over for Jay on the show.
He we kind of shared duties for October and November, but it feels like I was brought in days before 1010.
Uh and I feel like Jay knew something that I did that nobody else knew, and he got out.
He got out before things got really bad, but we're gonna write this out.
Me, me and all our our listeners and our community and our pro community and John Gillen, my the the other person who hosts some of the shows.
I mean, LG, I'm here investing with you, so hopefully I'm making the right.
That's it.
Yeah, here we go.
Yeah, we're all we're all here together.
Um, one thing that we do cover a lot, and you brought it up a few times is something that um is is maybe less relevant to price action, but I think a lot of people believe that it is, is the macro.
And um, we cover that a lot here in on our our macro channel.
Uh and one thing that we feature as well, we feature a lot of people from the industry who are working on that like institutional adoption.
So this is a tweet, you know, and this is just uh uh one example of things that we see a lot of these days, right?
Is that um, and the tweet is from uh St.
Nico, who I believe works at Uniswap, who says, Let me get this straight.
Majority of crypto is in existential crisis while BlackRock partners with Uniswap, Apollo partners with Morpho, OpenAI rolls out EVM bench, which is a new kind of Ethereum feature that they're working on, and hyperliquid launches a US policy center that meanwhile people are like losing their minds, they're quitting, we're at a low, all that stuff, and yet, like, you know, last bear market, it we had terrible conditions.
It was FTX is a scam, you know, the SEC is going after everybody, and now it's the complete opposite.
I think this is really confusing people.
So the problem with these isolated events are they're not the complete picture.
These are just isolated events.
There could be um multi-billionaires moving in complete silence, planning on doing things that we have no idea about that completely invalidate every single one of these macro events.
Uh the way in which these become useful is for us, average people trying to trade the markets who don't have large institutional uh connections, is liquidity funnels.
So the right event can funnel liquidity through just generating hype and narrative into the markets, and that's the key way I use macro events like this.
The reason I don't comment on the nuance of it is you've got much better guests to do that.
For me, big event, does the market care about it?
Is everyone on X talking about it?
Am I seeing a subsequent rise in volume?
Should I see this?
A couple of things happen.
Number one, I can trade larger position sizes because there's more volume, there's less slippage.
Number two, I might bet on more upside than downside.
So if I've got an upside setup, I might risk a bit more on it.
If I've got a downside spec setup, I might be a little bit less um keen to enter that position or de-risk a little bit because I'm reacting to some of the macro information.
Now, how you use macro, I believe, should be like that as a trader.
And right now, the market doesn't care.
So whatever news has come out has not been good enough.
So we just need better news that people catch on to.
That could be as dumb as a new meme coin that really takes off a new Ponzi narrative that people really like uh NFTs, meet meme coins, whatever it is.
We need something like that that just captures people's attention.
So the reason these news events don't matter is because they haven't captured people's attention.
I I personally don't think it's to do with the nuance of them.
It's just people not caring.
How do you feel about how do you feel about other things that actually affect supply, though?
And I'm curious, I always I always try and reconcile TA with, I guess, like I don't even call it macro, but like industry moves.
Something like in 2025, we had the ETF trade, we had the DAT trade, the asset treasury trade that uh some people have argued like that's what actually kept us out of a bear market.
And maybe even looking at your BTC chart, maybe that's kind of accurate that it's like the chart didn't really keep moving up that well, and maybe it was just being propped up by this uh by these larger buyers.
What's your take on that?
How does that affect?
How does that bleed into your charts, if ever?
Well, that was really useful narrative to trade because people actually cared about the uh BTC ETF.
Like that was huge.
That was really uh fun event that everyone was excited for and everyone thought would change everything.
Now, why the price didn't explode up like it normally does, you did say it was a slow trend up.
There was still interest there, people still cared about it.
It was a lot of volatility, and that sort of news event basically does exactly what I said it does.
I'm going to be a little more long bias on my BTC trades.
I'm going to expect more uh liquidity, which we did get, but then once the event ends, that's normally the worst part of it.
It's like uh projects when they launch before they launch, everything is possible.
They can go to the moon, anything could happen before the ETF properly comes.
It's like, oh, this could absolutely explode.
It could be amazing.
This will change everything.
But then once the events happen and nothing happens, the hype fades, and it's normally the worst part of the events.
So I still use these events, I still trade them, but I don't think further beyond that because there's like I said, it's just one data point.
There's so many other data points that come in to form the complete picture that as people who are trying to develop edge, one of the best things we can do is isolate.
Only focus on the things that you know you can absolutely crush.
For me, that is price action setups.
And what I'm betting on is that the price action incorporates that data.
So uh by isolating it, I'm actually getting a clearer picture because I'm preventing myself from getting distracted by parts of the puzzle uh when I don't have the whole puzzle.
What narratives are you watching right now?
Oh god, there's nothing.
There's absolutely nothing big right now.
The only thing slightly exciting is DEXs.
Like they're slightly still exciting.
People care about them, but that's normal.
Mostly because you can farm them and make money off of them if you before they launch.
So even that narrative's dying.
There is absolutely nothing exciting right now that is propping up the market uh besides just general macro events.
And for them, it's just a little bit of volatility.
Sometimes they don't even touch crypto these days, and crypto just does nothing.
So, with regards to that, nothing.
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Got it.
Okay, that's good.
That's good to know.
I I somebody asked me this recently the other day about hey, what are you into right now?
And I was like, nothing, man.
When conditions when conditions are bad, I don't fight it.
I don't fight it.
You know, I don't really see until there'll be clear, there'll be clear.
I feel like there'll be a clear time where it's like things are bullish again and and there's a time to get back into those narratives.
Um but what can you be doing with your time?
Like you don't need to be watching or waiting for narratives.
There's still volatility.
Like get up any coin scanner.
I like to use something called uh Orion Terminal.
I have no affiliation with them.
This isn't a shill, it's just a good coin scanner.
You hop onto that, and then every day just arrange it by tick count or price movement, wait to see what coins have moved the most, and you'll be able to find volatility every single day.
I know dozens of traders making four, sometimes five figures a month regularly, even in these abysmal conditions.
You just need to find your edge, find coins that are moving, trade the right assets, and build your edge on it.
And to build an edge, I can tell you in like two seconds, you just pick a set of rules based on either continuation or mean reversion, then you test it over 30 trades.
You're probably going to be unprofitable to start with, but you have a journal full of data, and then you slowly iterate over time.
And in a bear market, instead of just waiting for a narrative to appear, build your strategy, build your edge, and then when the bull market comes, you're just going to get more trade opportunities, more liquidity, and absolutely print.
It's what I did in 2017 after the first bull market died.
I just spent two, three years building a strategy.
And then when the 2020 came around, absolutely printed off of it.
Same thing can happen here.
It may not be a full-blown alt-season bull market, but it'll still cycle and you'll still get big opportunities.
This is not financial advice from Kruosh, okay, you guys like it's it's okay, it's okay to just be an investor.
You don't have to be a trader, you don't have to do all this stuff.
But I will say, you know, I think that that is that you are right that it is a good time.
I think and I agree to to maybe build new little skill sets whether it's whether it's actually looking into even learning basic TA is a good idea, right?
It's just you might as well if you didn't know how to read the charts before well nothing's gonna happen for a couple months might as well do that now or some other form of that.
Karush, my last question for you is obviously I think you really tap into the philosophical spiritual kind of side of all this stuff and you really preach a lot of um good habits.
And I always find that bear markets is like that's the time to reset it because when you're in the bull and there's a lot of stuff happening you might lose a little bit more sleep but the bear is the good time to kind of reset uh not just those skills but those habits I feel like you're always keen to talk about this man.
Tell me about what what is a good routine for somebody who's looking at who who's people are listening to these podcasts.
You know what I'm saying?
It's like people people listen to our show every day they'll listen to a lot of other shows our listeners are very smart our pro communities are very smart people.
What kind of things should they should they be doing outside of the computer let's say or within the computer or both to you know keep their head on their shoulders uh during a challenging time.
Uh hone me in a little bit on specific uh direction I should go in here.
Should people meditate or no?
Uh yeah, I mean, um the as traders or investors, especially is uh this is a hot take.
Uh AI is eventually going to make trading and investing a lot easier, and everyone's going to have access to uh strategies that with a pretty high probability can make you money at least match the market over a really long period of time.
So, our biggest separation is going to be our ability to fight greed and fight fear.
So it's actually a really good long-term strategy to just work on your psychology.
Uh, and meditation's a method I really like on it.
I tweet about it a lot.
I've been doing it for over 10 years, and I've worked with 150 plus traders, and every single one of them, meditation has improved their expected value on their trading systems.
They're more easily able to adhere to their rules, they're more easily able to notice, not eliminate, but notice fear, notice greed, and not act on it.
So, yeah, absolutely.
You could be meditating, but any health habits will help you with that in the bear market.
But I feel people know that, which is why I don't love saying it.
It feels like wishy washy advice.
I prefer to get as practical as I can with it.
Uh, build skills, build skills, don't waste this time.
And uh trading's the one I like.
You can build any skill you like, you can go start your own podcast.
You can uh apply to join crypto companies if you believe in this space.
Absolutely.
Well, that's good advice.
Thank you, Karush.
Good to see you, man.
Uh, and we will see you when you have a narrative that you like.
You call us and you get back on here and you share it with us, okay?
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