📈 Gold Moves First, BTC Follows Harder?

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BTC is hinting at a big move. This is what traders have been waiting for the whole quarter - but it might take some time, maybe 100 to 150 days. Can you wait?

Here’s what we got for you today:

• ℹ️ Crypto Sources From The Crypto Fire ℹ️

• 📈 Is Bitcoin About to Mirror Gold’s Big Move?

• ⭐ 5 Things You Shouldn’t Miss

• 💸 Being Right Doesn’t Always Mean Profit

• 🤡 Meme Of The Day

ℹ️ Crypto Sources From The Crypto Fire ℹ️

📈 Is Bitcoin About to Mirror Gold’s Big Move?

Gold just smashed past $3,200, hitting a new all-time high. But Bitcoin? Still chilling about 30% below its peak.

Here’s the interesting part: Analysts say this lag is normal. $BTC.X ( ▲ 0.74% ) tends to follow gold with a delay of 100–150 days. And if the pattern holds, we could see a big $BTC.X ( ▲ 0.74% ) breakout by summer 2025. 🌞

Why now? Because global liquidity is going wild. Central banks are printing again — M2 money supply is at record highs. More money in the system = more appetite for assets like Bitcoin.

Some bullish signs:

• 💰 Corporations bought over 95,400 $BTC.X ( ▲ 0.74% ) in Q1 2025 (Data by Bitwise) — the biggest quarter ever.

• 🥇 BTC is still outperforming gold and even the S&P 500 over the long term.

• Wintermute says it best: Bitcoin is showing “clear resilience.” While the $SPX ( ▲ 0.13% ) (S&P500) and $NDX ( ▼ 0.13% ) (Nasdaq) just hit their lowest points of the year - and bond yields climbed to highs we haven’t seen since 2007 - Bitcoin barely moved. It just slid back to where it was around the U.S. election. No major crash, no panic.

So... what if we’re just in that calm-before-the-rally phase?

⭐ 5 Things You Shouldn’t Miss

🎯 U.S. Treasury Secretary just said this about the markets: “If we’re looking at the VIX to measure volatility, I’m not making any bold calls—but it looks like it spiked and might’ve already peaked.” → Translation: He’s hinting that the market could settle down soon.

🕵️‍♂️ $5M ZK Tokens Just... Appeared? A hacker somehow gained access to a ZKsync admin account and used it to mint 111 million ZK tokens $ZK.X ( ▲ 3.09% ) (worth $5M) that were meant to be unclaimed airdrop tokens.

Crazy part? This wasn’t a smart contract exploit in the usual sense — it was an internal function called sweepUnclaimed()… and the attacker just used it.

📈 After crashing 90% over the weekend (from $6.30 ➡️ $0.52), MANTRA ($OM.X ( ▼ 11.27% ) ) bounced back to $0.82 on Tuesday - up 37%. Co-founder John Patrick Mullin says a full “post-mortem” with on-chain data is coming within 24 hours. But even with a 50% intraday bounce, most holders are still deep in the red.

🎮 President Donald Trump is reportedly launching a crypto-powered mobile game by late April — inspired by MONOPOLY GO! Players will build digital cities, earn crypto, and move around a virtual board. This would be Trump’s latest addition to his growing Web3 empire.

💸 Being Right Doesn’t Always Mean Profit

Let’s start with a painful reality in investing - sometimes, even the right move can still lose money. You can spot the bubble, do your research, and make a smart call... only to watch the market do the exact opposite - for a while.

It’s frustrating, even discouraging. But it’s also a lesson almost every experienced investor has learned the hard way. Because in this game, being “right” isn’t always enough.

There’s one story that captures this perfectly - and it might change the way you think about timing, strategy, and what actually matters when you're playing the long game.

🔹 Stanley Druckenmiller’s $600M Mistake

In 1999, billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller shorted 12 internet stocks.

Check his point at 19:35

He was absolutely right — all 12 eventually went bankrupt.

But here's the catch:

• He shorted too early

• The market went up before crashing

• He had to cover his short positions at a loss

💥 Result: $600 million lost in just 3 weeks

👉 Lesson: You can be right… and still lose. Timing matters more than correctness.

🤔 Right or Rich?

In trading, this question matters:

Many smart people focus too much on being correct.

But markets don’t reward theory — they reward execution.

🎤 Jim Cramer: The “Wrong” Guy Who Wins

Consider Jim Cramer, a TV finance personality:

• Constantly mocked for being wrong

He’s made some smart calls, but he’s also had some major flops — and his most infamous one is about Bear Stearns in 2008.

On March 11, 2008, a viewer asked Cramer if they should be worried about Bear Stearns. He responded loudly and confidently:

“NO! NO! NO! Bear Stearns is fine. Don’t move your money from Bear, that’s just being silly.”

At that moment, Bear Stearns stock was trading at around $60.

Five days later, the company was in deep trouble. After failing to secure emergency funding, Bear Stearns was sold to JPMorgan for just $2 per share over the weekend.

By Monday, the stock opened at just over $3 — a 95% drop from the price when Cramer said not to worry.

This became one of the most quoted mistakes in financial TV. It’s a reminder that just because someone sounds sure, doesn’t mean they’re right.

• Still earns $5M/year

• Net worth? Over $150M

How?

He built a brand, not just a track record.

📌 Point: It’s not about always being right — it’s about staying relevant, consistent, and strategic.

⏳ Timing > Precision

Trying to perfectly time the bottom or top? Good luck. It’s nearly impossible. Instead, successful investors often use a simple rule:

→ “Don’t Wait to Buy — Buy and Wait”

This idea, borrowed from real estate, works in crypto too.

You don’t need to catch the bottom or sell at the peak to win.

⚠️ The Danger of Waiting Too Long

Waiting for “the perfect moment” can mean missing the move entirely.

Those who already hold - they benefit when the market turns.

Being prepared > Being precise.

Trader Take:

In investing, being right isn’t always enough — especially if your timing is off. The market tends to reward those who are positioned well, not those who make perfect predictions. That’s why many successful investors focus on holding long-term instead of trying to catch every top or bottom. Discipline, preparation, and consistency matter more than being the smartest person in the room. And when it comes to safety, keeping your crypto on exchanges is risky — exchanges are for trading, not storage. In the end, making money is less about precision and more about being early, staying patient, and protecting your assets.

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