I recently had a sudden realization.

Between me and the market, there is actually a poker table.

From a certain moment on, I positioned myself as a participant in a chip game. This changed the way I view the market entirely.

What did most traders do before? Staring at candlestick charts guessing ups and downs, wavering between moving averages, patterns, and news. Being repeatedly harvested by greed and fear, and ultimately unable to find the real problem.

But looking at the world from a different perspective is completely different.

Candlestick charts are just traces manipulated by the market makers. Volume and price distribution (what we usually call chip distribution) can tell you the real story—the positions where real money is stacked. Your opponent is not the market maker itself, but the chips that are not aligned with the market maker’s direction.

Based on this logic, trading becomes a simple decision-making game:

Each wave of the market is like a round of poker. I only enter at extreme points, only choose opportunities with sufficiently good starting hands. Use limited attempts to thoroughly play a few good hands.

This is the system I later organized— I call it the Chip Game Flow Model.

If you also want to reframe your view of main cryptocurrencies like BTC and ETH with this logic, and understand the market from the market maker’s perspective, this methodology might open a new window.

From predicting the next candlestick to deciding whether to sit in this round. This is an upgrade to my trading worldview.