Americans Can Fly: The Crypto Game of the Midterm Elections

Knowing when to Check and understanding when to Raise are key, but the true winners are always those who read the board before the River and make a decisive Fold to leave the table.

This article is not written merely to fit the current trend. The bull market has arrived, but it will collapse rapidly within a violent bubble. The bubble itself is not frightening; what is frightening is being unable to see it before prosperity, refusing to participate during it, rejoicing when it bursts, and ending up with empty hands.

For financial market participants, not holding current mainstream assets is equivalent to taking a short position. To profit from shorting, one must capture funding rates or downside price differences. Failing to do so is akin to being hunted down by the entire market after being paraded higher, unfairly bearing the market's implicit advantages:

Cheap Money X Leverage Mechanism ——> Ultra-high Returns

Whether it was the 2008 financial crisis or the massive liquidity injection in 2020 triggered by the pandemic, both manufactured "cheap money," which is a macroeconomic backdrop we cannot interfere with. However, the "leverage mechanism" built upon this often gets projected onto various assets or financial products, creating surging mechanisms. When $HYPE was mentioned by Trump and skyrocketed, did opening contracts at that time truly yield substantial results?