When it comes to intraday high-frequency trading, the win rate for retail investors isn’t even 10%. Why? Institutions are engaged in algorithm wars, while you’re trying to compete for speed with just a mobile phone against their servers?
The essence of high-frequency trading is a zero-sum game—what you earn is what someone else loses. But value investing is different; it thrives on the power of compounding over time. Take BTC, for example—it climbed all the way from $1,000 to $60,000, and those who truly made big money were the ones who could hold on.
HODL isn’t just a slogan—it’s the survival rule for weathering cycles. In the short term, the market is a voting machine; in the long term, it’s a weighing machine.
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MissedAirdropAgain
· 12-07 01:25
Institutions should have already shaken out the retail investors—who still trades manually these days, haha.
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StakeOrRegret
· 12-06 16:35
Retail investors day trading are basically just giving money away; it’s better to honestly hold coins and sleep soundly.
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AirdropGrandpa
· 12-06 16:35
Trying to compete with machines with just a phone is pure suicide😅
Retail traders get completely eaten up in intraday trading; it's about time to face reality.
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BagHolderTillRetire
· 12-06 16:34
Retail day trading is just giving away money; I've seen too many people get liquidated.
Just hold onto Bitcoin, don't bother with all those flashy tricks.
HODL is really the only way out; everything else is just gambling.
Algorithms are much faster than you, wake up everyone.
Earning in one year is nothing compared to holding for ten years—that's the truth.
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FudVaccinator
· 12-06 16:33
Retail day trading really is just giving money away; I’ve seen too many people lose everything because of it.
Competing with institutions on speed? Buddy, your delays are measured in milliseconds, theirs are in microseconds.
That’s why I now stick to HODLing. You can’t make money in the short term anyway, so it’s better to just hold steady. The story of BTC going from 1,000 to 60,000 is heartbreaking—so many people sold at a loss when it was just 5,000...
Long-term compounding really is more reliable than any technical indicator.
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SudoRm-RfWallet/
· 12-06 16:19
Hold and don't let go; everything else is gambling.
Absolutely right!
When it comes to intraday high-frequency trading, the win rate for retail investors isn’t even 10%. Why? Institutions are engaged in algorithm wars, while you’re trying to compete for speed with just a mobile phone against their servers?
The essence of high-frequency trading is a zero-sum game—what you earn is what someone else loses. But value investing is different; it thrives on the power of compounding over time. Take BTC, for example—it climbed all the way from $1,000 to $60,000, and those who truly made big money were the ones who could hold on.
HODL isn’t just a slogan—it’s the survival rule for weathering cycles. In the short term, the market is a voting machine; in the long term, it’s a weighing machine.