@proxystudio

be skeptical of any product that seeks to increase the # of trades you are engaging in 99% of us should not trade, period. It is -EV. Usually our trading is more similar to gambling, and when our markets mature we are competing with the 1% of profitable, often professional, well capitalized, well tooled traders. We are not playing the same game as they are, tbh they're the players and we are the game being played any product that encourages you to increase the regularity of your trading is monetizing or profiting from your "unsophisticated retail order flow," they eat when we trade more, period That doesn't make these products bad, it doesn't mean you shouldn't seek to profit from trading, but it does mean you should be highly skeptical of our mutual agreement in the inevitability of financialization. Highly cynical about any economic system or product experience that rewards how much time you spend trading, how much $ you trade, or how frequently u bid / dump, lp, stake, hold, twap stuff trading less is easy, it will make you richer, and will have intangible positive impacts on your life by preventing you from developing even worse obsessive, self destructive internet habits. I'm always trying to learn this lesson, it's hard to learn bc every single product we use is designed to make us trade more. Our society, our politics, our fucking art and fashion, our sports, our media are all constantly trying to encourage us to trade more. Want to win? Trade less Want to win on Farcaster or Base App? Do the opposite of whatever Farcaster & Base incentivizes you to do. As a starting point: trade less :)

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