2026-01-05 20:22:58

The system has evolved to the point where the elites have learned a set of skills—squeezing out the juice before the fruit is ripe. This is not a metaphor; looking at the current macro market sentiment makes it clear. Futures, derivatives, pre-locked contracts... all embody this logic. The market is often trading not the present reality, but expectations of the future—or rather, expectations that are shaped. That’s why sometimes good news leads to a price decline; other times, deteriorating fundamentals cause the market to rise. Behind macro sentiment lies this game rule of pre-emptively overdrawing value.

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ImpermanentSage

· 01-06 21:36

Basically, the strategy of cutting leeks has been upgraded, and now even expectations are being taken in advance. You’re still watching the K-line, but they’ve already moved on to trading next year’s story. The pre-locking of contracts, to put it bluntly, is about creating an information gap; retail investors are always a step behind. This is the real game rule—price fluctuations don’t matter; what matters is who knows first. Macroeconomic sentiment, in essence, is a carefully crafted illusion.

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DegenRecoveryGroup

· 01-06 18:20

Exactly, this set of tactics for harvesting profits is becoming more sophisticated... Front-loading, shaping expectations, in plain terms, it's just playing the game of information asymmetry.

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FrogInTheWell

· 01-05 20:53

I don't quite agree; I feel like things are being overcomplicated. Basically, it's just the rich getting all the wins. I'm already tired of this routine; why are they still cutting? Overleveraging? Wake up, the rules of the game are originally written by them. That futures stuff, in the end, is just legal gambling. I really didn't expect anyone to waste brainpower on such things.

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Layer2Arbitrageur

· 01-05 20:52

ngl the basis points game they're running rn is just frontrunning on steroids. they basically tokenized the "sell the news" playbook into derivatives & locked it into smart contracts lmao

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UncleWhale

· 01-05 20:48

Basically, it's a psychological game played by capital, and we retail investors are always a step behind.

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MetaverseLandlord

· 01-05 20:36

Manipulating expectations has been played out long ago. Retail investors are still looking at candlestick charts, while others have already locked in arbitrage.

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WalletWhisperer

· 01-05 20:35

nah this is just whale psychology 101. they're not trading price action, they're trading *our* perception of it. futures contracts are literally just sophisticated prediction markets where the house always wins. watch the wallet clustering patterns before any major move—the data doesn't lie, people do.

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