The ultimate goal of the bull market: to develop a sense of satisfaction and learn to exit at a profit.

Now, we are entering a phase in the crypto market cycle where rational thinking becomes increasingly difficult.

If you have already made a large profit, you may think that the market will rise two or three times more; if you are just recovering from the highs of 2021, you will convince yourself that this breakthrough is what you have been waiting for all year. Opportunities; if your performance is not as good as the market, you will feel strong FOMO (fear of missing out) and frustration, and even dare not quit. Underlying all of this is the same thing - your prefrontal cortex cannot resist the torrent of emotions.

The mind is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

The original title of this article was "Enough" because at the end of the day, what the market really tests is whether you know when to stop. This is the essence of the problem.

Can you make a wise decision and get out? Can you keep the money after you make it? On the other hand, can you stop the loss in time before the loss completely eliminates you?

The market, especially one as volatile as crypto, is not about who makes the most money, but about who can retain the most wealth five years from now. After you pay your taxes and avoid those impulsive trades and irrational investments after the peak of the bull market, how much will you have left in the end?

The ultimate goal of this journey has never been to make an astronomical amount of wealth, but to make "enough" money and keep it.

The most ironic thing is that we could have defined what "enough" is, but we are always immersed in X.com (Twitter), constantly surrounded by those bull market stories and profit and loss screenshots, stimulating our desire for more.

As someone who has been through several crypto market cycles, I can tell you with certainty that you will never feel like you have enough.

Even if you buy at the lowest point and sell at the highest point, you will still feel unsatisfied. Even if you open your Phantom wallet and can't believe that this huge sum of money now belongs to you, you will still be tempted to try a few "seemingly simple" transactions two weeks later.

People get into the crypto market because they themselves are the ones who have difficulty satisfying themselves. They enjoy adventure while deeply fearing the passage of time. They fear that if they don’t seize the opportunity now to create wealth that can change the destiny of generations, it will be too late.

This way of thinking is exactly what keeps you stuck. In the next four years, you may continue to chase that unattainable 100-fold return, thinking that only that is "enough." In this mentality, you will ignore the fact that "wealth accumulation takes time", and only think about how to quickly surpass others, imagining that as long as you make more money, you can fill the "satisfaction" that has been missing in your heart all these years. ”.

However, the reality is that this sense of satisfaction never truly comes for most people.

This sense of satisfaction never truly comes to most people.

No matter when the market top comes—maybe it’s today, maybe it’s a few months from now, maybe it’s late 2025—you’re going to feel like it’s not enough. Even if you see the market having the craziest pump, with all the top signals flashing, and you sell all your coins at a huge profit, a month later when you see another meme coin surge again, you still feel like not enough. Even if you take profits in time and protect your trade when the market begins to pull back, you will still feel that it is not enough.

Sadly, very few people actually make money from the crypto market after taxes and fees. And there are even fewer people who can keep their wealth a few years after the bull market ends.

The only way to ensure your success is to stop relying on intuition and start thinking rationally. Intuition can leave your emotions to live life, but the market only believes in logic.

This game should be fun, but definitely not comfortable. It should be like athletic training—challenging, hard, but rewarding. True satisfaction comes from making progress, not from showing off.

When you truly realize that you already have "enough", that's when you have won. It is also at that time that you really start to move towards true wealth.

By Carter Thomas